http://www.flashfonts.com/flashsite/fontspage2.htm

http://www.typedesign.com/fontlist05.html

I am thinking that Mojo might be good.
Does anyone agree?

Since I spent half my day attempting to research Excoffon, I want to suggest Calypso.

This is the only digital version I know of
http://www.scootergraphics.com/calypso/

I kind of doubt Photo-Lettering is still around but they specialized in psychedelic type (when it was "in," or most likely, shortly thereafter) and just about anything else that was popular during the photofilm years. They did go digital. I have a number of their fonts, mostly dated from the early 1990s. I recall some free fonts that imitate the psychedelic period. You can probably pick this stuff up somewhere if you look around seriously enough.

Toke up and doodle.

I think that Mojo is great, Elsa. Here are a few more that I like, too:

Julia Script
http://www.linotype.com/89826/juliascript-font.html

Bottleneck
http://www.linotype.com/88717/bottleneck-font.html

Candice*
http://www.linotype.com/88768/candice-font.html

Lazybones
http://www.linotype.com/89855/lazybones-font.html

Waterloo Bold
http://www.linotype.com/12113/waterloobold-font.html

Eckmann
http://www.linotype.com/9641/eckmann-font.html

Metropolitaines
http://www.linotype.com/89982/metropolitaines-font.html

Arnold Boecklin
http://www.linotype.com/59/arnoldboecklin-family.html

Hobo
http://www.linotype.com/535/hobo-family.html

Hope that helps!

*Paul Hunt has a free font in progress that sort of reminds me of Candice, Seventies Schoolbook

Some nice ones, anyway its not so difficult to check Veer or myfonts....

Janice
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/canadatype/janice/

Elephant
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bagraphics/elephant-bells/

Love
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/agfa/love/

Canada Type's Janice looks sweet! Thanks for pointing it out

Elsa, I'm serious.
Mojo has a good pedigree, Wilson via Parkinson, but it's only type. All the best psychedelic posters were hand lettered, escaping the rigid shackles of conformity, flowing free from the inner recesses of the artists mind, liberated by hallucinogens and really long Jerry Garcia guitar solos.

Yeah, I think I'll try just drawing them... if my type teacher permits it

Not so much a suggestion as a request for confirmation. I know the

Nick is right. We did everything by hand in those days. It wasn't so much that we were "groovy and doin' our thing." There wasn't much choice. There were no computers and the normal way of working was to draw everything. Type was indicated by drawing it. You only had type set after the job was approved and ready for production. There were nowhere-near the type choices we have currently. Brush and paint, pen and ink, exacto knife and rubylith were the skills we practiced. Today, tools of the trade are software programs and type choices are broad and very cheap. You can digitally manipulate anything in a snap now. In the 60's what you may perceive as type manipulation was actually drawn, Photostatted, cut&pasted, retouched film-neg'd, opaqued and stripped with colors hand registered on a light box. We sent a man to the Moon then but designers were strictly low-tech.

ChrisL

As Chris and Nick imply doing things by hand creates its own look. I'd add drawing on rubber, twist it, stretch it, reshoot it.
Tim

Another question:
Would a bluegrass band from the 60's have a psychedelic album cover?
I may just go another direction.

Elsa

Elsa: Try to get your hands on the old Baseline issue dedicated to psychedelic lettering/type.

Jackson: Be sure to do a search on "Excoffon" in the Typophile archives.

hhp

>Would a bluegrass band from the 60's have a psychedelic album cover?<

No, not very likely. The 60's had a rather broad range of design. It was much more eclectic than some people assume. You had everything from Ben Shahn, Herb Luballin, Seymoor Schwast more illustative style in contrast to the modernist AG Helvetica International style. There was also, in advertising, what I used to call "The Typeface of the Month Club" style" where a typeface would become "in" and be overused for everything (Cooper Black had a longer stay than most.) and then die a quick death in disdain. Psychedelic was actually not all that popular beyond the acid rock youth. Peter Max posters had a fling in the late 60's but most truly psychadelic stuff was done by hand by college students.
A bluegrass band would have had more of a straightforward homegrown look. Maybe with hand written title or something more country looking--anything from Clarendon caps to a wooden type look.

Thank you so much for all your feedbacks!
I'm going for two idea sketches: one psychedelic with hand-drawn characters and one probably with Cooper Black. I personally just wanted to try psychedelic because I wasn't around in the 60's to try it.

Cheers!
Elsa

>I personally just wanted to try psychedelic because I wasn't around in the 60's to try it.<

Does that mean you will be "Trippin" first :-)

Peace (Y)

>The 60's had a rather broad range of design. It was much more eclectic than some people assume.

Thanks Chris. This was part of the point I was attempting to make.

I think looking at Crumb

Just wanted to give you an update on this project:
I showed my sketch for the psychedelic poster to the teacher, and he approved of my choice of style... He then advised me to manipulate the type I had on there, so it's kind of like hand-drawing the letters.
I can't wait to finish it!

http://www.studiooscar.com

i do quite a few...

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