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Virgin Rum ad (1969)

Photo(s) by Bart Solenthaler. Imported from Flickr on Aug 14, 2020. Artwork published in .
Virgin Rum ad (1969)
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Novel Gothic featuring a widened V with stylized sunset, for an ad by the U.S. Virgin Island Rum Council, 1969. The copy is set in stacked and staggered Helvetica.

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  • Novel Gothic
  • Helvetica

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1 Comment on “Virgin Rum ad (1969)”

  1. The shaded variant of Novel Gothic appeared in Solotype’s 3-D and Shaded Alphabets from 1982.

    Here is a glyph set of this phototype version; note that the lowercase s glyph is omitted in this sample.

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