A hand-lettered display face drawn from the mid-century jazz album cover aesthetic of illustrator David Stone Martin, with interlocking pairs, swashes and contextual alternates.
About
Inspired by the hand-lettered title on Oscar Peterson's Porgy & Bess album cover, the design captures the loose, brushy quality of Martin's prolific 1940s jazz illustration work. Interlocking character pairs, stylistic alternates and swashes give the single weight considerable flexibility across headlines, book covers and apparel graphics. The Latin coverage spans over two dozen languages including Fula and Filipino.
Classification
A hand-lettered display typeface with a swinging, informal character derived from mid-century jazz album cover lettering. The irregular, brush-cut forms and interlocking pairs place it firmly in the display/script-adjacent category rather than a conventional script.