Albert (solid) and Fat Albert
(outlined and shaded) are two all-caps film typefaces shown in
Lettergraphics’s “Do A Comp” catalog (©1968).
Fat Albert appears to be a copy of OP-Letter
as drawn by Walter Haettenschweiler and shown in
Lettera 3 (1968). It’s
distinguished by harmonized letter heights, ‘H’ is more even,
shadows in ‘C’, ‘F’, ‘R’ are different. Also appears as
Googie AKA Fat Albert Square in
Castcraft’s Encyclopedia (1978) and as
Zippy in Moderne Alphabets (Dover, 1999).
Not to be confused with Fat
Albert (Schaedler).
Albert is different from Fat Albert in
some details: counters in ‘C G O’ and apertures in ‘F’ and ‘V’ are
bigger, ‘K’ and ‘W’ are more even, ‘Q’ tail crosses the counter,
‘Z’ is not top-heavy. More…
Albert (solid) and Fat Albert (outlined and shaded) are two all-caps film typefaces shown in Lettergraphics’s “Do A Comp” catalog (©1968).
Fat Albert appears to be a copy of OP-Letter as drawn by Walter Haettenschweiler and shown in Lettera 3 (1968). It’s distinguished by harmonized letter heights, ‘H’ is more even, shadows in ‘C’, ‘F’, ‘R’ are different. Also appears as Googie AKA Fat Albert Square in Castcraft’s Encyclopedia (1978) and as Zippy in Moderne Alphabets (Dover, 1999). Not to be confused with Fat Albert (Schaedler).
Albert is different from Fat Albert in some details: counters in ‘C G O’ and apertures in ‘F’ and ‘V’ are bigger, ‘K’ and ‘W’ are more even, ‘Q’ tail crosses the counter, ‘Z’ is not top-heavy. It’s shown in catalogs by Typeshop and Fürst. Also appears as Derbuss in Castcraft’s Encyclopedia (1978).
Mushmouth PB is a digital version based on Albert.
