Shirley Bassey – How About You? album art
Tony Stan (1917–1988) was a lettering artist and type designer active in New York from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. He’s best known for his work for the International Typeface Corporation which includes ITC American Typewriter Bold, ITC Garamond, and ITC Cheltenham. Before that, he drew about thirty alphabets for Photo-Lettering.
One of them is Stan Staneon, an all-caps display typeface that emulates neon tube lettering. It came out around 1970, at the same time as ITC Neon by his local colleagues Ronné Bonder and Tom Carnase. Staneon has narrower proportions and is, compared to ITC Neon, a fairly rare bird. I’ve written more about it before, in a post about Roy Clark’s album The Entertainer from 1975.
Here’s another appearance on the cover of How About You? The compilation album with songs by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey was released by Pickwick Records in 1972, shortly after had a massive hit with the theme song for Diamonds Are Forever. The song titles are set in all-caps Trade Gothic Extended.
Track names and Ellis Nassour’s liner notes are set in the IBM Selectric version of Univers.
