the HoL typeface

[Justin Bur <justin@iro.umontreal.ca>]

The typeface used on the cover of Hounds of Love is
called Zapf Chancery Medium Italic.  It is available
on most modern PostScript devices.

Zapf Chancery was designed in 1979 by Hermann Zapf,
one of the most important 20th-century type designers.
He has also produced Palatino (also on PostScript
devices) and Optima.  Both the "roman" (slightly
slanted) and the italic (moreso) of Zapf Chancery
are based on 16th-century chancery cursive script.

For more information and a review of the type, see
the article by Kris Holmes (herself a noted type
designer, co-author (with Charles Bigelow) of Lucida)
in Fine Print 6:1 (1980).