Tinka Bell – “There’s A Little Old Lady” single cover
Sleeve for a single by French singer and visual artist Tinka Bell a.k.a. Yohana Nilović, with songs written by her husband Janko Nilović and Davy Jones. It was released in 1970 on Ju Ju Records, a label started by the two composers together with Eddie Barclay.
The typography features all-lowercase Primavera. According to a catalog published by École Estienne in 1994, this wide roman and the related, more playful Rialto were designed by Albert Hollenstein in 1958/1959. Other sources including Olivier Nineuil credit Hollenstein staff member Albert Boton with the design and date Primavera to 1963.
The song titles are added in caps from Cooper Black. This typeface that originated in Chicago in 1922 didn’t really see wide use in France before Hollenstein added a phototype version to their library, see the Hollenstein American Type Shop catalog from 1968.
Posted as part of a series that pays tribute to Albert Boton, one of the preeminent French type designers of the past sixty years. Albert Boton died on July 20, 2023, at the age of 91.
