Coronet (typeface)
Appearance
Category | Script |
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Designer(s) | R. Hunter Middleton |
Foundry | Ludlow |
Sample |
Coronet is an American typeface designed in 1937 by R. Hunter Middleton.[1]
Uses in Popular Culture
- Andy Warhol's "signature" on the cover of Velvet Underground and Nico is done in this font.
- Some of the credits for I Love Lucy were in this font; it was also the typeface used for the Desilu closing ident seen on The Lucy Show and the original Star Trek series.
- It was used for the Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica logo.
- Deftones uses this font on some of their albums.
Bitstream's unofficial digitisation is called "Ribbon 131".
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coronet (typeface).
- ^ Jaspert, W. Pincus; Berry, W. Turner; Johnson, A. F. (2001) [1953]. Encyclopaedia of Type Faces (Fourth ed.). London: Cassell Paperbacks. p. 372. ISBN 1-84188-139-2.