The Coasters – The Coasters’ Greatest Hits album art
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An early Greatest Hits compilation by The Coasters, a rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group formed in 1955, released on ATCO Records in 1959.
The cover design is by Marvin Israel, at the time art director for Atlantic Records. He worked with a photograph by Garrett-Howard and a typeface named Sphinx éclaire. This all-caps open/inline style accompanied Sphinx, a Fat Face first cast by Deberny & Peignot in 1925. The version used here likely is Photo-Lettering’s adaptation, Sphinx Inline, made before 1950. The design was digitized by Steve Jackaman as Sphinx RR Inline (Red Rooster, 1992), adding a lowercase. Doug Olena is credited with another revival (Keystrokes, 1992), adding a Condensed Inline style.
