Radiohead Font: Deansgate on A Moon Shaped Pool

K-Type’s A Moon Shaped Font account identifies Deansgate on Radiohead’s 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool, including its covers, booklets and publicity. The foundry says it created a new Light weight specifically for designer Stanley Donwood and subsequently added Light weights to both Deansgate families. This is a confirmed album-specific resource. It does not establish that Radiohead’s earlier albums, every merchandise item or a separate band emblem use the same family.

The original Deansgate family page connects its normal and condensed designs to Manchester street-nameplate lettering. It identifies a pointed Z and pointed M/W details, and lists Light, Regular and Bold with corresponding italics in each family. Compare MOON SHAPED in the actual Light resources, holding size and tracking constant before judging the width. A condensed drawing is a separate resource, not simply a normal font squeezed horizontally. Use the actual title and punctuation when checking an edition; a similarly named Light from another family is not the commissioned drawing.

For an original listening-room release, make one square composition with a restrained title and another with the track list, credits and catalog information. Test the title at cover size and as a small thumbnail, then judge the detailed copy independently. Keep your chosen font, weight, width and spacing in the project notes. The homepage’s decorative characters to copy are Unicode substitutions; they do not preserve Deansgate’s outlines or an album’s layout. Follow the actual foundry resource for the family and relevant terms, and use a dated album credit when attributing the original application.