Village appears in PLINC’s
Psychedelitypes (1968) as Pyschedelitype
5788/5789 and, with more widths and shadow variants in
Alphabet
Yearbook 1969. Shown in Alphabet Thesaurus,
Vol. 3 and One Line (1971) as Village, in
9 variations: 5783/V. East (open shade right),
5784/Other V. (shade right), 5785/V. Stocked (contour),
5786/V. Mainliner
(double outline), 5787/V. Gate (outline),
5789/V. Narrow,
5790/V. Wide,
5792/V. West (open
shade left), 5793/V. Chicurel (shade left).
Orbit is a common variation with no flaring, and a
vertical-legged ‘R’ and tailed ‘T’ (these may have been alternates
in Village). The origin of Orbit is
uncertain, but it appears in a
Letterphot Vario ad (1971), Mecanorma (1973), Berthold’s
E1 (1974, with Facsimile Fonts
credits), More…
Village appears in PLINC’s Psychedelitypes (1968) as Pyschedelitype 5788/5789 and, with more widths and shadow variants in Alphabet Yearbook 1969. Shown in Alphabet Thesaurus, Vol. 3 and One Line (1971) as Village, in 9 variations: 5783/V. East (open shade right), 5784/Other V. (shade right), 5785/V. Stocked (contour), 5786/V. Mainliner (double outline), 5787/V. Gate (outline), 5789/V. Narrow, 5790/V. Wide, 5792/V. West (open shade left), 5793/V. Chicurel (shade left).
Orbit is a common variation with no flaring, and a vertical-legged ‘R’ and tailed ‘T’ (these may have been alternates in Village). The origin of Orbit is uncertain, but it appears in a Letterphot Vario ad (1971), Mecanorma (1973), Berthold’s E1 (1974, with Facsimile Fonts credits), Lettergraphics (1976, but not 1968/1969), Haber (1981), and Solotype’s Art Deco Display Alphabets (1982). A variant with filled-in bottom apertures (‘AHKMNRWX’) is shown in catalogs by Formatt (1974, Orbit with O. Rimmed and O. Shaded) and Hollenstein (1974, as Foto Orbit Solid).
Humberto Gillan made a freebie digitization based on Village (but without the flaring), and included Orbit’s ‘R’ and ‘T’ as alternates (OutsideInside Fonts, 2017).
