Villlage 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 (used for the sample) 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
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Villlage 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 (used for the sample) 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), Formatt (1974), Lettergraphics (1976, but not 1968/1969), Haber (1981), and Solotype’s Art Deco Display Alphabets (1982). Hollenstein’s Foto Orbit Solid appears to be identical to Orbit, except for the filled-in aperture of ‘R’.
