Gisèle Parry / Gisèle Casadesus – Le vilain petit Canard / Neigeline album art
Contributed by Bryson Stohr on Mar 10th, 2024. Artwork published in
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The album art for Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale and The Ugly Duckling (Neigeline and Le vilain petit Canard in French, respectively), recounted by Gisèle Parry and Gisèle Casadesus.
The name of the album is Fritz Max Steltzer’s Monotype Script Bold, a close follower of Prägefest. It’s accompanied by an appropriately reversed version of Bodoni. The secondary typefaces are Monotype Garamond and what looks like Monotype Grotesque Extra Condensed. Just like Script Bold, these typefaces were offered by Monotype.
The illustration is credited to Pierre Belvès. No cover designer is mentioned.
1 Comment on “Gisèle Parry / Gisèle Casadesus – Le vilain petit Canard / Neigeline album art”
I wonder what’s up with the narrow C in “Canard”. It doesn’t match the glyph included in the digital version nor in the original as shown in a Monotype specimen:
Monotype sometimes offered alternates for regional markets. I’m not sure if that’s the case here, too (and why French would need a narrower C), or if maybe the artwork got damaged in the process and someone touched up the affected letter manually.