![]() The type styles are fairly similar, though, and some fonts are even the same. Just compare this set of covers to another one by ABBA from around the same time. First seen on DaFont: ApUpdated: June 10, 2014. Black Sabbath 1980s Logo Desktop Wallpaper Font - Rock Band Transparent PNG is a 500x500 PNG image with a transparent background. ![]() There was no well-defined genre typography yet, it was all still “pop type”. 30,913 downloads (7 yesterday) Free for personal use - 2 font files. In most cases, the bands had no word in the design decisions. Those were often made by local divisions of record labels and distributors. On the international single sleeves, though, the styles are all over the place. This is different for the album: With the stylized blackletter on the cover, it’s instantly clear what kind of music it contains. 42 Black sabbath Logos ranked in order of popularity and relevancy. Although we have the largest database of fonts, the search for a font from an image gets mixed results like the image above. Thousands of designers (famous or not) use the image font detection system to find a font or similar free fonts from an image. None of the featured typefaces is inherently “metal” or “hard rock”. If you recognize the font from the samples posted here don't be shy and help a fellow designer. What I find more interesting is the fact that there were hardly any genre-specific typeface preferences yet. Now one could ask the chicken-and-egg question: Were those typefaces trending that were offered by the type providers? Or did the font makers respond to the current trends? Eight out of 14 typeface designs originated in phototype and dry transfer, four were created in the previous three years. ![]() At the same time, we see various sans serifs, ranging from classics to contemporary heavyweights ( Antique Olive Compact, Neil Bold) and new interpretations of Art Deco themes ( Washington, Premier Shaded), to futuristic ones ( Handel Gothic). There’s the multiline/Op art theme ( Black Line), the unearthed turn-of-the-century oddities ( Tintoretto, Frankonia) including the hippie revival of Jugendstil/Secession forms ( Dreamline), and the amorphous, bottom-heavy styles ( Bottleneck, Putty Bold) that had come in fashion shortly before. The covers provide a cross section of what was popular in display type at the time, although it’s difficult to make out one common trend. ![]() ‘T’ (not pictured in the scan) is a match, too. Try a search!įive very different sleeve designs from various European countries for “ Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”, the opening title track and first single release from Black Sabbath’s album of the same name, released in late 1973 with “Changes” as B-side. The sample only includes a few characters, but it is enough to confirm that Eminence indeed is the face used on the Black Sabbath cover, see the ‘C’ with curly top and blunt bottom, the lighter leg in ‘K’, the counters in ‘H’ and ‘S’. These are the most common typefaces in the database, but there are many more. ![]()
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