Brando's Feature: Odd Trivia

ANSWER TO BADFINGER ODD TRIVIA # 3 Badfinger Doll?
We have a winner!! Doug Stalnaker (he is 3 for 3 on the odd trivia) ventured through the vague clues that were given over the past month and come up with the connection between Badfinger and the advertisement featuring Daisy. The connection is that one of the typefaces used for the advertisement is the same typeface used for Badfinger's Straight Up album and Dan Matovina's book, "Without You: The Tragic Story of Badfinger."

You might be thinking, "big deal?!" But actually even today it is kind of a "big deal / mystery" No one that I have communicated with over the last 5 years on the net has been able to identify the name of this typeface. I recently received an email from a website in Great Britain, that lists and displays hundreds of fonts, wanting to know if I knew the identity of the typeface / font. I asked Mark Perkins, who did the artwork for Matovina's book, if he had any insight and he mentioned that he wasn't able to identify the font and had to "reconstruct" the typeface / font from scratch for the book cover.

Because I had only ever seen this font used for Badfinger's Straight Up album, I'd always thought that perhaps this typeface was designed specifically for the Badfinger album. If not created just for Badfinger, you'd think fairly certainly that this typeface was designed in the late 1960's or early 1970's. It has a "hip / groovy" kind of look to it. That is why I thought it was odd that here is proof that the typeface actually existed some 60 to 70 years before Badfinger ever had a hit single.

Besides the "Daisy" advertisement (circa 1910) and the Badfinger Straight Up album (1971) has anybody seen this typeface used for anything else? It is extremely rare. If you have any information about the identity of this typeface / font, please let me know. Mr. Perkins is extremely curious about this as is a font website in Great Britain. Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Can anyone contact Gene Mahon, does he remember anything about discovering the typeface?

Side Notes: "Intrepid Bold" is the font used for some of the labels on Badfinger's Apple albums. "Coronation" is the font used for Badfinger's Wish You Were Here album, while "Contemporary" is a font very similar to the one used for Badfinger's debut Warner's LP. Does anybody know the name of the typeface used for the No Dice LP?

Remember, I said it was "odd" trivia.

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