The Great Hits of Frank Sinatra album art

Photo(s) by Bart Solenthaler on Flickr.


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Compilation album with hits by Frank Sinatra, released in 1964 in Capitol Records. The compressed sans used for the title looks like it’s Swiss Gothic. Photo-Lettering’s adaptation of Walter Haettenschweiler’s Schmalfette Grotesk (1954) did come with a ready-made Open style. Note that the aperture in G is smaller than in showings of Swiss Gothic (or Schmalfette Grotesk). Maybe there was an alternate form. The song names are shown in all-caps Akzidenz-Grotesk eng (a.k.a. Standard Condensed).

No designer credited. The portrait of smilin’ Sinatra is signed “WG”.

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