Sinatra in Palm Springs DVD cover
Sinatra in Palm Springs is a 2018 documentary film directed by Leo Zahn, starring Barbara Marx, Tom Dreesen, and David Cohen. From IMDb:
Palm Springs, a small desert oasis 100 miles East of Los Angeles was Sinatra’s true home for 50 years. During his brief yet turbulent marriage to Ava Gardner his Palm Springs home was center stage. For the rest of his life, the Rancho Mirage compound on Frank Sinatra Drive, was the home he called “My Heaven”. Palm Springs still feels the ghost of Frank Sinatra.
The cover of the DVD (and Blu-Ray Disc) release by Shout! Media recently came up on fontid.co. It features a condensed sans in the American Gothic style, used in all caps with alternating line colors. Kevin Thompson identified it as Alpin Gothic. This typeface was designed by André Gürtler (1936–2021) of Team’77 as a modernization of ATF’s Alternate Gothic. It was released by Compugraphic in 1974, in at least four numbered styles plus one italic.
Alpin Gothic is distinguished from Alternate Gothic by a number of refinements: the bowl of a isn’t saggy, E and F have longer middle bars, the waistline of G was raised, the center of M doesn’t thin out as much, s and S have smaller apertures and perfectly horizontal terminals, and the ear in g as well as the tail in Q were made horizontal. A digital version, CG Alpin Gothic, was once available through Monotype, but is no longer shown at the time of writing.
