Fat-face typefaces have to be one of my most enduring obsessions, as they managed to be part traditional Didot spin-off as well as geometric modernist. The extreme contrast and balance between the thick and thins make for a dramatic display typeface that is a never-fail in attracting attention. Taken from the newspaper-friendly Didot, Pistilli Roman was created by Herb Lubalin and John Pistilli in the 60s, abandoned, and was partially digitized as Opti Pirogi Roman in the 90s. Today the typeface is midly captured in the Galeere typeface, but not as well.
One of my favorite fat-face typefaces, which is saying a lot because i love fat-faces so very much, Pistilli Roman, was so nicely used as a fat-face should be (large and clean), on the Valley of the Dolls re-design from 1997. I would probably have passed by this book, but the cover drew me in, and the designer, Evan Gaffney, used the same template for other Jacqueline Susann novels in the Dolls series.
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