Don Ho and The Aliis – You’re Gonna Hear From Me album art
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You’re Gonna Hear From Me is one of three albums that Hawaiian crooner Don Ho (1930–2007) and his backing group The Aliis released in 1966. The cover design featuring photos of Ho and a blonde woman enclosed in male and female signs is by Ed Thrasher.
The singer’s name is in Neptun, a typeface that originated in 1900 at the Aktiengesellschaft für Schriftgießerei und Maschinenbau in Offenbach/Main, Germany. In 1962, Photo-Lettering made a phototype revival as part of their Art Nouveau Xenotypes 1895–1905. The Art Nouveau-infused hybrid between roman and blackletter saw renewed use in subsequent years, and more versions of it were also issued by others, including by Letraset.
The album’s title is set in tightly spaced lowercase letters from Helvetica, while the song names are shown in all caps.
This post was originally published at Fonts In Use