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(x) Space age font - Blippo {Mark S}

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Can anyone ID the NASA-esque font used here for RYTHEM TRACK? Thanks

Blippo is close, but the E and K are wrong. Oddly, the E and K from Letraset's Pump seem to match, but I can't believe you'd mix and match two such similar faces like that. Maybe Blippo has alt characters I don't know about? Or maybe that's how they rolled in the 80s?

Thanks. The E and the K were throwing me off too, I thought it was Bauhaus at first. God only knows what they were using to set type at a 1980's record pressing plant in Jamaica... it makes recreating these things a real pain in the butt.

The original version of Blippo had quite a few alternate characters. I'm looking at an old specimen and all the characters in the sample are there.

Quite often, with digitizations of old film fonts like this, when there are alternates, only one version of each character makes the cut, unfortunately.

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