Mercury Records Label font

[Member Ivo…]

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.

[Member Ric…]

It looks like an artificially condensed version of Futura (or one of its many knock-offs and derivatives), wider than Futura Condensed.

[Member Ivo…]

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

 

[Member Ric…]

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.

[Member Ric…]

See also how the same typeface is used for the track list on a different record label:

 

[Member Ivo…]

Spooky. Must be a sub-label of Mercury. 

[Member Ric…]

2 hours ago, Ivor said:

Must be a sub-label of Mercury.

Or simply they used the same vinyl printing plant.

[Member Ivo…]

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.