The Cactus Garden by Robert Ward
Hardback edition, 1995. “A novel” is in Futura Extra Bold.
Template Gothic in use for The Cactus Garden, a novel by Robert Ward published in 1995 by Pocket Books. On the jacket, Barry Deck’s iconic sans inspired by vernacular letterforms is used in all caps, black on dark grey, with a bright green drop shadow. Template Gothic’s A – which was the first glyph that Deck drew – has a tapering left leg. Together with the color green, it resembles the spine of the titular cactus.
Matt Galemmo designed the book jacket. The lizard with a lipstick kiss on its back is by Mark and Stephanie Gerber.
Template Gothic is also used for the text on the inner flap, togeher with Futura Condensed. The title page is set in Forte, with hideous faux small caps.
On the cover of the paperback edition from 1996, the caps from Template Gothic are shown in green and apparently embossed. The blurb is added in (regular-wide) Futura.
