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BD Fontabello

Type Different · 2015

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BD Fontabello specimen from Type Different

A single-weight revival of a 1973 Mecanorma display face, rediscovered on an Italian record sleeve and released in 2015 as a lowercase-only font.

About

Traced back to a font called Lucky from the Mecanorma catalogue, this typeface carries the rounded, warm character of early-1970s commercial lettering. It is lowercase only, a deliberate constraint that preserves the informal, label-ready feel of the source material. One weight, one style, suited to music, packaging and retro-flavoured editorial work.

Classification

A lowercase-only revival inspired by a 1973 Mecanorma lettering sheet, with the rounded, characterful forms typical of early-70s display lettering used in record sleeve design.

Weights

Regular

Languages

Latin

Tags

retro1970sdisplayrecord-sleeverevivallowercasemecanorma