Space-Sound-Orchestra – Switched-On Amadeus Mozart album art
Fonts from the Flea Market #1385
The cover of this Swiss release of “Mozart’s most beautiful melodies in the sound of the time” combines three typefaces whose names are all prefixed by three letters.
In G.K.W. Computer, they refer to Gustav Kuhle Werbung, a German advertising agency with branches in Berlin and Munich. Their close follower of Moore Computer was distributed by Berthold Fototypes and Zipatone.
The initials in MGB Patrician stand for Don Munson, Lynda Graham, and Ray Barber. Lynda is the widow of Barber who co-designed the typeface together with Munson, then Art Director at Ballantine Books.
Last but not least, the prefix in ITC Garamond denotes the International Typeface Corporation. Founded in New York in 1970, it pioneered the licensing of typeface designs for phototypesetting and dry transfer lettering. ITC originated a number of highly successful releases, including reinterpretations of classic designs, typically with a raised x-height and expanded to a range of weights.
