Althea & Donna – “Uptown Top Ranking” / “Calico Suit” German single cover (opens in new tab)

Contributed by Florian Hardwigrockers.de Rockers. License: All Rights Reserved. The German sleeve for Althea & Donna’s 1978 hit single “” features four typefaces that were all available from Letraset at the time. None of them was an original creation by the English manufacturer of dry transfer lettering, though: Kabel Black (“Top Ten in England”) and Futura (“An Original Lightning Recording”) are adaptations of geometric sans serifs originally made as metal type in the late 1920. Neptun as us...