I'm not certain, though I wouldn't be surprised if it was hand-lettering.
A few years back I had the opportunity to repackage the book the "Anatomy of a Murder" movie was based on. At the time, a design with no resemblance to Saul Bass' iconic poster was in place. I pushed to revert back to using Saul Bass's iconic movie poster image on the cover. And when I needed to add the "#1 Bestseller" line I found the font Hatmaker to be the closest match I could find at the time. Not perfect--but a similar feel. (And just for for fun here is the package for the first edition of the book back in 1958)
18 Sep 2008 — 1:20am
'Hitchcock' font is similar to 'The Man With The Golden Arm' font, but not the same - go to this site for more info.
http://typographica.org/001110.php
JH
18 Sep 2008 — 1:36am
PS, you might also want to try 'Shag Lounge' by House industries.
http://www.houseind.com/index.php?page=showfont&id=22&subpage=viewfontsp...
JH
18 Sep 2008 — 1:44am
Henry Hughes created three fonts inspired by Saul Bass's lettering back in 2002. His old website is defunct, but I found them here.
18 Sep 2008 — 1:46am
PPS, there's a font called 'Joey' that's not a bad match for 'Anatomy..', but I can't for the life of me remember where I bought it from.
JH
18 Sep 2008 — 2:35am
thank you! Hitchcock looks nice.
some contextual alternates would make it even better.
18 Sep 2008 — 6:12am
I'm not certain, though I wouldn't be surprised if it was hand-lettering.
A few years back I had the opportunity to repackage the book the "Anatomy of a Murder" movie was based on. At the time, a design with no resemblance to Saul Bass' iconic poster was in place. I pushed to revert back to using Saul Bass's iconic movie poster image on the cover. And when I needed to add the "#1 Bestseller" line I found the font Hatmaker to be the closest match I could find at the time. Not perfect--but a similar feel. (And just for for fun here is the package for the first edition of the book back in 1958)
18 Sep 2008 — 6:43am
Karen,
Thanks for posting the old cover! It reminds me of my youth and how far we have come in this design business.
ChrisL
18 Sep 2008 — 7:02am
For "The Man with The Golden Arm" Look in FontDiner Square Meal and Square Meal Hearty in the County Fair Picnic font set.
http://www.FontDiner.com