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Les Gypsies de Pétion-Ville – Album III Courage album art

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Jun 4th, 2023. Artwork published in .
Les Gypsies de Pétion-Ville – Album III Courage album art 1
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Courage is third second album by Haitian compas band Les Gypsies de Pétion-Ville. It was released in 1973 by Macaya Records, with cover photography by Dominique F. Simon.

The origin of the bold geometric caps ith half-open letterforms is unclear. Dan X. Solo showed it as Eclipse in his Art Deco Display Alphabets in 1982. There is a digital version under this name that originated at Compugraphic and is now being sold by Monotype. Another digitization made by Tim Ryan in 1997 used to be available as Eclipse Caps from Type Revivals.

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The reverse features the album title in , with custom Roman numerals.
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The reverse features the album title in Eurostile, with custom Roman numerals.

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  • Eclipse
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