Beatles – Please Please Me
2The album that started it all… and it features some bold graphic design/typography too.
The ‘logo’ can be recreated quite closely with Compacta font, but it will need to be condensed a fair bit to match the album sleeve:
The album title can be closely matched with Swiss 721 Black Extended, I’ve added an extra 1pt black stroke around the lettering to match the weight of the album sleeve a little more closely…
you will use the same Swiss font for the rest of the lettering:
“with Love Me Do and 12 other songs”
FONT UPDATE!
The correct font is apparently Annonce Grotesque, the regular version can be downloaded here: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/canadatype/annonce/
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The lettering for the title and strap line is actually Annonce Grotesque; a very popular typeface at the time.
Thanks for your input, my initial research can’t find a downloadable version of the very condensed title font, but I’ll update the page with your observations on Annonce Grotesque.
Many thanks
Neil.