Prince of the City movie poster and soundtrack cover
Contributed by Garrison Martin on Mar 17th, 2024. Artwork published in
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Movie poster
Prince of the City is a Sidney Lumet film from 1981 about New York police officer Daniel Ciello (Treat Williams) delving into his own city’s police corruption. Vincent Pacella’s Collegiate is used for the title. Memphis Light is used for supporting text.
![Cover of the soundtrack by Paul Chihara, released on Varèse Sarabande. [More info on Discogs]](https://fiu-original.b-cdn.net/fontsinuse.com/use-images/125/125914/125914.jpeg?filename=28033.jpg)
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Cover of the soundtrack by Paul Chihara, released on Varèse Sarabande. [More info on Discogs]
1 Comment on “Prince of the City movie poster and soundtrack cover”
Thank you, Garrison. First documented Use for Pacella Collegiate!
The font used for the tagline at the top is an interesting one, too. Frutiger famously introduced a novel numbering system for his seminal sans, Univers. The first of the two digits defines the weight, while the second one defines the width – with even numbers used for italics. There is 75 (Black), 76 (Black Italic), and 67 (Condensed Bold) – but no 77 (Condensed Black).
That fact is even mentioned on the German Wikipedia page about font styles: “no such thing as Univers 77”. Well, that’s true for the original series by Deberny & Peignot. It doesn’t take into account the imaginative makers of phototype adaptations. In their 1978 catalog, Castcraft shows a Univers 77. It’s this apocryphal addition to the Univers series that’s used for “A cop is turning. Nobody’s safe.”