Donika Venkova – Donika Venkova album art
Photo: Christopher Bentley. License: All Rights Reserved.
This contribution is being compiled on Donika Venkova’s seventy-sixth birthday of 19th November 2023 and features her eponymous debut LP from half a century ago.
Her name for the front cover is set in Futura Black, in Latin script in the top right-hand corner and in Cyrillic script in the bottom left-hand corner. It would appear that the initial Д in “Доника” has been adapted from the Latin A, with the cross bar whited out and with a pair of “feet” added. Further thereto, the Cyrillic И is a Latin N flipped vertically, the rest of the name consisting of glyphs shared with Latin script. The “BTA 1639” is, like the main subsidiary text on the rear cover, set in Edel-Grotesk and also the track-listing has been set in an X-shaped form by means of indentation. Credits and other small text on the back are in Literaturnaya.
This occasion has been celebrated with a post at “Girls of the Golden East”.
Photo: Christopher Bentley. License: All Rights Reserved.
This post was originally published at Fonts In Use