Toshiki Kadomatsu – “Friday to Sunday” single cover
This is the single by Japanese singer-songwriter Toshiki Kadomatsu titled “Friday to Sunday”. The coupling song is “I’ll Call You” which only exists in this single. The song title is set in ITC Machine and was edited to make the text striped. The artist’s name above is set in ITC Serif Gothic with alternate characters being used such as the letter k and a. Lastly, the text below the song title is set in a lightweight variant of Futura.
The typefaces mentioned in this use except Futura are also used at the front cover of his studio album Weekend Fly to the Sun. The photography is credited to Kiyomi Kaneko. Kuniyoshi Ukita provided the art direction.
A 1972 promotional brochure for ITC Serif Gothic & Bold, showing the alternate glyphs k and a which were used in the single cover.
