70s Fonts & Design
Posted Thu, 03/06/14
Paperback book cover fonts during the 1970s were bold and attractive for the most part. I toyed with some of them when creating the cover for Glinhaven, finally settling on Harrington for the author name and Trajan for the book title.
Here are a few more classic 1970s fonts (click on single font image below to view larger size in a new window).
In plain English, the pictured fonts include American Purpose, Avant Garde, Cooper Black, Futura, Kompakt, KTF Roadstar, Souvenir and Spicy Rice.
I've developed a special web site for Glinhaven, which will not go live until the book is released this summer. In designing the site offline, I used the 1970s font known as Chocolate Box (for the intro and page headers):
Intro and button previews from the upcoming "Glinhaven" site using the Chocolate Box font:
Semi-Related Trivia: You know you're reading an authentic gothic fiction novel published in the 1970s when full-color Kent or Marlboro cigarette ads are inserted into the binding along with the book's pages.
It's not something you'll likely see in modern paperback novels.
