Sgt Peppers

Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club is a font inspired by the capital letters on the bass drum in the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album cover. The original lettering was hand painted by fairground artist Joe Ephgrave during March 1967 in an art deco style he called ‘futuristic’. The font completes the uppercase, adds a lowercase, and includes a full complement of over 400 characters.

Sgt Peppers Outline and Sgt Peppers Outline Fill are two additional fonts with matching spacing and kerning that can be overlapped for creating bicolor/multicolor effects and faux drums. The Outline and Outline Fill fonts do not contain lowercase characters, instead they comprise two weights of capitals as painted on the Sgt Pepper drum. The uppercase letters are in the wider style from around the outer edge of the drum, and the lowercase keys deliver the more condensed ‘Lonely Hearts’ inline style from the middle of the drum.

Read the story behind the Sgt Pepper fonts in the Kernel.

All three fonts are supplied when a licence is purchased, and the Outline version is available Free for Personal Use.