1970s typography

Some interesting tiny graphic design bits found on rather uninteresting sounding records.

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Adobe Fonts Through the Decades - 1970s. When working on a brand or campaign, it’s not uncommon for a client to reference a particular era. Colour and style will certainly round out a periodical style, but the true key to evoking an era is by using the right typography. There are so many beautiful typefaces available for purchase, but a fantastic place […]

“Sweet 1970s logos.”

These 10 typefaces would all feel at home on your parent’s vinyl collection from the 70s — or maybe even on your website in 2015.

Or Copper Black. Whatever you fancy.

Perfect in its imperfection, Psychedelic Xylophones is a retro trippy hippie font that brings a hand-lettered groove to your text graphics. It features a lar...

I posted this to my blog years ago, but thought this would be a good place for it. In 1977 at age 21, I was production manager (officially) and assistant art director (unofficially) for Metropolis, a weekly newspaper in Minneapolis. I was the resident “type expert”