The April 8, 1966 cover of Time magazine was the first one in the magazine’s history to forego an image. Instead, in red against black background, the publication wondered: “Is God Dead?”
For this week’s April 3, 2017 issue Trump cover story and telephone interview by Washington bureau chief Michael Scherer, the magazine is paying homage to that famous graphical moment. In a fashion that involved some retro-graphic effort:
In order to produce an exact rendition of the typeface, Time graphic artist Lon Tweeten hand-drew each letter form with fine precision, as we could find no modern type foundry which has an exact interpretation of the one used on the original cover.
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