No pretending at all that this is an original design. The original design read “John& Paul& Ringo& George” and was created by Experimental Jetset. Since then, there had been many imitations, with the names of members of different bands.
In any case, someone needs to make a shirt like this. A quick search online resulted in no such shirt, which was surprising, since the original was so beautifully simply designed and has appeared in the Helvetica documentary.
Here’s black on white:
The kerning with this design is a bit off to me. It’s just not as clean as the original Beatles version. I had to do some type modification, especially with some descenders.
I feel like only a real amateur designer would do this following design, because it’s too easy and it just loses the original Beatles design quality.
CMYK on gray to bring out the CMY’s.
