Typophile

70s typefaces

rifffinnel2

I realize that my request is general and subjective. I’m in the brainstorming stage of designing a CD album with liner notes and CD imprint for a live band performance of 1970s songs. I don’t even know what the songs are at this point. For right now, the background is an extreme blowup of someone wearing a tie-dyed tee shirt wearing buttons of the members of the band and a trippy but post-psychedlic peace button. For right now, I’m using Arnold Boecklin, the typeface from That ’70s Show for the name of the band and the performance. I like it, but I my wind up rethinking it at a later date. I’ve spray-painted the world “LiVE!’ in Photoshop and imported it on top of the shirt. So here’s my request: Off the top of your brilliant minds, name some other fonts I might possibly use for headlines and even body copy for a 1970’s tie-dyed integration.

Rainer Zerenko

Don't know the political correct term for the 1970's, but I would go for a typeface with this keyword. And Arnold Böcklin is more than 100 years old.

rifffinnel2

Thank you for the comment. Yes, I knew Arnold Boecklin was even older than I. I was branded the headline to the show on TV, That ’70s Show, which used Arnold Boecklin. Which goes to show ya, type is about context.

fontgeek

Tie-Dye and the psychodelic bit was really more of a 60's kind of thing. Many of the heavier Art Nouveau faces like Arnold Boeklin, Roberta, Hobo, etc. were the look of the day

Font-A-Saurus

Don't get too fancy with psycedelic faces. less is more. use it sparingly. the rest can be Futura, Akzidenz Grotesk, Franklin Gothic, Compacta....

If you use something like Mojo, keep in mind that you need to distort it a lot in order to look like 60's poster art: http://www.wes-wilson.com/wp-content/gallery/brignall-article/brignallim...

Don't get too fancy with colors and effects. It's easy to make it look cheesy or retro like this: http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007IO6WS.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg Doesn't look anything like the psychedelic era to me.

You might wanna go to a used record store to get some inspiration.

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