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Help ID a geometric sans serif from the 60s or 70s

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Posted by kevos12 in
8 Nov 2012 — 8:38am

Hello Experts--

Can anyone help me ID the font in this album cover.

Thanks in advance!

--Kevo

Atwe
8 Nov 2012 — 10:38am
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The QBF catalog lists it as Dempsey Bold.

kevos12
8 Nov 2012 — 1:28pm
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Thanks very much, Atwe.

Forgive my ignorance, but what's the QBF Catalog? Is it available online?

I tried Google-ing "Dempsey Bold" but it didn't really pan out. I'll keep looking, though!

Mike F
8 Nov 2012 — 2:47pm
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The Phil's Photo catalog (phototype) called it Dempsey Medium. The only other digital version I'm aware of is Thomas E. Harvey's 'JoeLouis'. That was from 1992 and may be tricky to find. It also uses what was Dempsey's alternate 'S', which is different from the default 'S' in your image.

Atwe
9 Nov 2012 — 4:50am
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Kevo: QBF is short for The Quick Brown Fox Co., was a company distributing photolettering typefaces, I have one of their catalogs, it's a good resource for identifying typefaces from before the computer era.

kevos12
9 Nov 2012 — 8:18am
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Thank you Mike and Tamas! You've been a great help!

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