The Roxette Gazette

Roxette

Neverending Love

  • Park Avenue
  • Stempel Garamond – regular, italic

Neverending Love (remix)

  • ITC FatFace
  • Stempel Garamond – regular, italic

Pearls of Passion

  • ITC FatFace
  • Berling – regular, italic (cover only)
  • Stempel Garamond – regular, italic

Goodbye to You

  • ITC FatFace
  • Berling – regular, italic (cover only)
  • Stempel Garamond – regular, italic

Neverending Love (France)

  • ITC FatFace
  • Univers – 59 ultra condensed

Soul Deep

  • ITC FatFace
  • Stempel Garamond – regular, italic

Soul Deep (Germany)

  • Normande
  • Stempel Garamond – regular, italic

Dance Passion

  • ITC FatFace
  • Berling – regular, italic (cover only)
  • Stempel Garamond – regular, italic

I Want You

  • Railroad Gothic
  • Trade Gothic – bold (mechanically stroked to increase weight)

Neverending Love (Germany)

  • Bordeaux – regular, italic
  • Avant Garde Gothic – regular, bold

It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken-Hearted)

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed
  • Berling – italic
  • Futura1 – bold condensed
  • Stempel Garamond – italic

I Call Your Name

  • ITC Garamond – light condensed

Dressed for Success

  • Franklin Gothic – condensed, extra condensed

Listen to Your Heart

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed
  • Futura – bold condensed
  • Stempel Garamond – italic

Look Sharp!

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed
  • Times New Roman – regular, italic, bold
  • Modern No. 20
  • Annlie – italic
  • Park Avenue
  • ITC FatFace

Chances

  • Franklin Gothic – condensed, extra condensed

The Look

  • Franklin Gothic – condensed, extra condensed
  • Times New Roman – italic

Sweden Live

  • unidentified compressed sans, similar to Industria or Mekanik
  • Twentieth Century – ultra bold
  • Franklin Gothic – regular, medium

Dangerous

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed
  • Futura – bold condensed
  • Stempel Garamond – italic

Dressed for Success (Europe)

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed
  • Futura – regular, bold

Dressed for Success (UK)

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed
  • Univers – 65 bold

Listen to Your Heart (Europe / UK)

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed

Look Sharp! Live

  • Franklin Gothic – regular, extra condensed

Dangerous (Europe / UK)

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed
  • Futura – bold condensed
  • Stempel Garamond – italic

It Must Have Been Love

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed
  • Times2 – regular (mechanically condensed to 50%)
  • Helvetica – regular, bold (mechanically condensed)

It Must Have Been Love (Germany)

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed, medium
  • News Gothic – regular, bold

Dressed for Success (UK 1990)

  • Poster Bodoni – compressed
  • Futura – regular, bold (mechanically condensed to 75%)
  • Times – regular, bold

Listen to Your Heart / Dangerous (UK)

  • Franklin Gothic – extra condensed
  • Futura – bold condensed
  • Stempel Garamond – bold

Joyride (single)

  • Futura No. 2 – bold (customised for logo)
  • Futura1 – bold, bold italic

Joyride

  • Futura No. 2 – bold (customised for logo)
  • Futura1 – regular, italic, bold

Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)

  • Futura1 – bold, bold italic

The Big L.

  • Futura No. 2 – bold, bold italic
  • Futura1 – bold, bold italic

Spending My Time

  • Futura1 – bold, bold italic (mechanically condensed to ±95%)

The Videos

  • Futura No. 2 – bold, bold italic
  • Futura1 – regular, bold, bold oblique

Church of Your Heart

  • Futura No. 2 – bold, bold italic
  • Bembo – regular, italic
  • Snell Roundhand – regular, bold

Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) (France)

  • Futura1 – bold, bold italic, extra bold

How Do You Do!

  • Futura1 – extra bold condensed, extra bold condensed italic (mechanically condensed to ±70% on cover)

Tourism

  • Futura1 – extra bold condensed, extra bold condensed italic (mechanically condensed to ±70% on cover)
  • Futura1 – bold, bold italic

Live-ism

  • Futura1 – condensed, extra bold condensed (mechanically condensed to ±75% on cover)

Queen of Rain

  • Futura1 – extra bold condensed, extra bold condensed italic (mechanically condensed to ±75% on cover)

Fingertips ’93

  • Futura1 – extra bold condensed, extra bold condensed italic (mechanically condensed to ±75% on cover)

Almost Unreal

  • Futura1 – extra bold, medium condensed, bold condensed (mechanically condensed to 73–80% on cover)
  • Machine – regular (Super Mario Bros. logo)

Sleeping in My Car

  • Franklin Gothic3 – regular, bold
  • Bodoni4 – regular, italic, bold

Crash! Boom! Bang!

  • Franklin Gothic3 – regular, bold
  • Bodoni4 – regular, italic, bold

Crash! Boom! Bang! (single)

  • Franklin Gothic3 – regular, bold (bold mechanically condensed to 64% on cover)
  • Bodoni4 – regular, italic, bold

Fireworks

  • Franklin Gothic3 – bold, bold italic (bold mechanically extended to 450% on cover)

Run to You

  • Franklin Gothic3 – bold (bold mechanically extended to 160% on cover)
  • Shelley Script – Andante (mechanically stroked to increase weight and swash tail added)

Rarities

  • Franklin Gothic3 – regular, demi

Vulnerable

  • Franklin Gothic3 – regular, demi

You Don’t Understand Me

  • Corporate S – regular, italic, bold, bold italic (bold mechanically extended to 120–130% for titles)

Don’t Bore Us – Get to the Chorus!

  • Corporate S – regular, italic, bold, bold italic (bold mechanically extended to 120–130% for titles)
  • Adobe Garamond – regular, italic, semibold italic

The Look ’95

  • News Gothic – regular

June Afternoon

  • Impact

You Don’t Understand Me (UK)

  • News Gothic – regular

She Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

  • Bodoni4 – regular, italic, bold, bold italic

June Afternoon (UK)

  • Helvetica – compressed (mechanically extended to 130% and 160% on cover)

Crash! Boom! Live!

  • Franklin Gothic3 – bold

Un día sin tí

  • Corporate S – regular, medium

Baladas en Español

  • Corporate S – regular, medium

No sé si es amor

  • Corporate S – regular, medium

Pearls of Passion – The First Album

  • Poster Bodoni
  • Adobe Garamond – regular, italic
  • Adobe Serif MM (fallback for Adobe Garamond on cover and inlay due to prepress mistake)
  • Park Avenue

Wish I Could Fly

  • Perspective
  • Bosis – medium, semibold
  • Profil
  • Vineta

Have a Nice Day

  • Perspective
  • Bosis – medium, semibold
  • Profil
  • Vineta

Anyone

  • Perspective
  • Bosis – medium, semibold
  • Profil
  • Vineta

Stars

  • Bosis – medium, semibold

Salvation

  • Bosis – medium, semibold
  • Ziggy

Wish I Could Fly (US)

  • Helvetica – regular, bold italic

Don’t Bore Us – Get to the Chorus! (US)

  • Helvetica – regular, bold italic

The Centre of the Heart

  • Snell Roundhand – black
  • Trade Gothic – regular, bold

Room Service

  • Snell Roundhand – black
  • Trade Gothic – regular, bold
  • Braggadocio (text on Marie’s Chloé “Obsessed by You” shirt)

Real Sugar

  • Snell Roundhand – black
  • Trade Gothic – regular, bold
  • Cooper – black (TV show titles in music video)
  • Candice (marquee sign in music video)

Milk and Toast and Honey

  • Snell Roundhand – black
  • Trade Gothic – regular, bold

All Videos Ever Made and More

  • Bullet – regular, script
  • Min – Three

A Thing About You

  • Neue Helvetica – light, bold

The Ballad Hits

  • Neue Helvetica – light, bold

Opportunity Nox

  • Neue Helvetica – light, bold

The Pop Hits

  • Neue Helvetica – light, bold

Ballad & Pop Hits

  • Neue Helvetica – light, bold

The Rox Medley

  • Akzidenz Grotesk – extra bold (mechanically condensed to 95%)
  • HTF Knockout – no. 90 Ultimate Welterweight (mechanically condensed to 95% and skewed 11°)
  • Minion – regular, italic, bold

One Wish

  • Magneto – bold
  • URW Wood Type
  • Minion – regular, italic

A Collection of Roxette Hits

  • Akzidenz Grotesk – extra bold (mechanically condensed to 95%)
  • HTF Knockout – no. 90 Ultimate Welterweight (mechanically extended to 110% and skewed 13°)
  • Minion – regular, italic
  • Bickham Script – regular

The Rox Box

  • Akzidenz Grotesk – extra bold (mechanically condensed to 95%)
  • HTF Knockout – no. 90 Ultimate Welterweight (mechanically extended to 110% and skewed 13°)
  • Minion – regular, italic
  • Bickham Script – regular

Reveal

  • Akzidenz Grotesk – extra bold (mechanically condensed to 95%)
  • HTF Knockout – no. 90 Ultimate Welterweight (mechanically extended to 110% and skewed 13°)
  • Minion – regular, italic

Rox Archives / File Under Pop

She’s Got Nothing on (But the Radio)

  • Blackout – 2AM
  • Akzidenz Grotesk – extra bold condensed italic

Charm School

  • Blackout – 2AM
  • Akzidenz Grotesk – extra bold condensed italic

Speak to Me

  • Blackout – 2AM
  • Akzidenz Grotesk – extra bold condensed italic

Way Out

  • Blackout – 2AM
  • Akzidenz Grotesk – extra bold condensed italic

Greatest Hits (US)

  • Gotham
  • Meloriac

It’s Possible

Travelling

The Sweet Hello, the Sad Goodbye

  • Liberator – heavy
  • Akzidenz Grotesk – medium condensed

Live – Travelling the World

  • DIN – bold, black

XXX – The 30 Biggest Hits

  • Red Top – regular
  • Trade Gothic – condensed no. 18, bold condensed no. 20

The Rox Box (re-release)

  • Red Top – regular
  • Akzidenz Grotesk – extra bold
  • Minion – regular, italic
  • Bickham Script – regular

It Just Happens

  • Nexa – extra bold, black

Good Karma

  • Nexa – bold, extra bold, black
  • FF OCR-F – regular

Some Other Summer

  • Nexa – bold, extra bold, black
  • FF OCR-F – regular

Why Don’t You Bring Me Flowers?

  • Nexa – bold, extra bold, black
  • FF OCR-F – regular

Look Sharp! – 30th anniversary edition

  • Franklin Gothic – condensed, extra condensed
  • Times New Roman – regular, italic, bold, bold italic
  • Modern No. 20
  • Annlie – italic
  • Park Avenue
  • ITC FatFace
  • Bickham Script – regular
  • Classical Garamond – regular, bold
  • Mort Modern – 22 bold condensed, 22 bold condensed italic
  • Trixie – heavy
  • Olympia Senatorial typeface (closest digital matches are Larabiefont and Aachen Typewriter)

Boxette

  • Butler Stencil – bold
  • Bronx – regular
  • Brandon Grotesque – regular, bold

Help!

  • Red Top – regular

Let Your Heart Dance With Me

  • Red Top – regular

Tu no me comprendes

  • Red Top – regular

Piece of Cake

  • Red Top – regular

Bag of Trix

Joyride – 30th anniversary edition

  • Futura No. 2 – bold (customised for logo)
  • Futura1 – regular, medium, bold, condensed, bold condensed
  • Adobe Garamond – regular, semibold

ROX RMX

  • Red Top – regular

Crash! Boom! Bang! – 30th anniversary edition

  • Franklin Gothic5 – regular, bold, demi condensed italic
  • Bodoni4 – regular, italic, bold

Don’t Bore Us – Get to the Chorus! – 30th anniversary edition

  • Univers – 63 extended bold, 63 extended bold oblique

  1. This is most likely the URW version. ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩

  2. This is the Linotype version, not Monotype Times New Roman. ↩

  3. This is most likely the ITC version. ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩

  4. This is most likely the Adobe version. ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩

  5. This is most likely the ITC Pro version. ↩