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Mercury Records Label font

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Can anyone possibly help me identify the artist and title font? It looks to be made up of two faces?

I'm putting a book together so would like to nail it. Thanks for any help.

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It's definitely not a standard face. Can't believe Mercury would do something shoddy so may have been commissioned. It's the O that's particularly strange

 

22 minutes ago, Ivor said:

Can't believe Mercury would do something shoddy so may have been commissioned.

In this case I think the technical constraints were the principal concern: fitting all the needed text and stamping it on a pre-printed label.

Typographic concerns don’t seem to have been especially taken into account. See, for example, the total lack of kerning, especially visible in Y/A and Y/a pairs.

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Spooky. Must be a sub-label of Mercury. 

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Labels may have been printed by the same people possibly. But they would have had to use specified typeface. And if different printers were used the face would have to exist in a consistent form.

 

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