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I believe it's either Unicorn or Storybook

It looks like Davida with alternate characters or hand tweaking. And the ampersand looks like a modified Caslon 540 italic.

Shades of Photolettering and foundry type!

Neil

Well, it's not either of the fonts I posted. It is a standard font though. We had it. I vividly remember that especially ugly cap E. I can't remember the name, it's one of those that won't be loaded until the one file that uses it is called on.

Heather,

Davida was fairly popular in the '60s and was used a lot in advertising, record jackets and product packaging. When Flower Power waned, so did the font.

Neil

Neil wrote:
  "It looks like Davida with alternate characters or hand tweaking"

Where do you see evidence of alternates or tweaking (other than the 
basic graphic work that added an outline and pushed the letters together)?

If there are differences that I can't see, the source might also have 
been one of the many different implementations, such as those from

   Bitstream
   B&P Graphics [has a very different "A"]
   Image Club Graphics
   Linotype
   Solotype/Dover
   URW++

or Davida lookalikes, ripoffs, and clones with a different name include

   Inagodda (Silver Graphics)
   Victoriana Display Caps (Southern Software - SSI or SSK)
   Dascha (WSI/IMSI)

  - Herb

On May 2, 12:48 pm, Neil_Kel...@adobeforums.com wrote:
> It looks like Davida with alternate characters or hand tweaking. And the ampersand looks like a modified Caslon 540 italic.
>
> Shades of Photolettering and foundry type!
>
> Neil

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<< Shades of Photolettering and foundry type! >> ...those were the
days!

I also think it's Davida. Davida had alternate A, E, and F.

BTW, in addition to the other names, Agfa Compugraphic called this Da
Vinci.

Bill

Herb,

In the various samples I found (myfonts.com), some of the serifs are differently deployed. But I recall a lot of knockoffs of this font that have been around for awhile. And, who knows? The example shown may have been genuine Photolettering (I no longer have the big catalogs they published) or other strip photo negative process. And outlining and other optical trickery were routinely done by Photolettering.

Neil

On May 2, 9:45 am, Christopher_Po...@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know what this font is, or something similar, from this album cover?
>
> Fingers crossed...
>
>  <http://www.movinwithnancy.fsnet.co.uk/pictures/cd/nancy&lee.jpg>

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Davida's alternate "E" is like the ones in the sample. The first "N"
was not one of Davida's alternate characters as far as I know.

Bill

Great album, by the way!