I'm not familiar with Albro, my book on Brodovitch is at home. Can you post a sample? Perhaps with a sample we might know it under a different name.

I think that was a Photolettering alphabet but they're out of business aren't they?

thanks for your responses
here's an image of the alphabet:

Yes that's the face I was thinking of. Do you ever look at www.showstudio.com? I'm a HUGE Nick Knight fan so I keep up with his work there. I saw this type on the site for one of the projects and have been lusting after it ever since. Looks like a fellow named Paul Barnes had something to do with the type. I don't know him but I've heard from an old co-worker that he's expensive so it figures that Nick Knight would work with him! http://www.showstudio.com/projects/blumenfeld/

dear nigellaL,
thanks for the info. I will contact this paul barnes fellow.
all the best,
anne jordan

More ball terminal porn.

According to this online article, AlBro has never been released.

And... hold on a second. In the book Typography -- When, Who, How (edited by Friedl, Ott, and Stein), it is listed as Abro, not AlBro. Same goes for the website type hype... Are they all talking about the same typeface?

House Industries, the new owner of the Photo-Lettering library weighs in.

A digitization was once available from Lineto, I believe. But there must have been licensing issues.

Also by Paul Barnes, in collaboration with Peter Saville, a logo for Kate Moss Topshop brand.

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There's a thread elsewhere on Typophile about that logo...

In Portfolio #1 from 1950 (you can see the scan of a facsimile in ALJ's post), it is referred to als Albro, short for Alexey Brodovitch. In the Brodovitch book by Kerry William Purcell (from which ALJ scanned the facsimile, I suppose), it is called Al-bro. Nico Schweizer's 1992 revival Albroni (released by Lineto) can be found here: http://www.lineto.com/1.0/content_36.html

Sorry for the late response. :-)

Better late than never, Rainer. Danke.