Coronet (typeface)
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| Category | Script |
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| Designer(s) | R. Hunter Middleton |
| Foundry | Ludlow |
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Coronet is an American typeface designed in 1937 by R. Hunter Middleton.[1]
Uses in popular culture
[edit]- Andy Warhol's "signature" on the cover of The Velvet Underground & 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.
- The pound signs in the logo of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? were taken from Coronet.
- Deftones uses Ribbon 131, Bitstream's digitisation of Coronet, on some of their albums.
- Billie Eilish's Happier Than Ever uses Coronet for its cover text and associated branding.
References
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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.
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