Maria Neykova single cover

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This self-titled single by Bulgarian singer Mariya Neikova (1945–2002) was released by the state-owned Balkanton in 1972. For the cover typography, the uncredited designer used letterforms from Gros Titre, a capital alphabet drawn by Swiss art director Roland Schenk and reproduced in the second volume of Lettera.

The name of the “girl with the guitar” is shown twice, in Latin, here transliterated as Maria Neykova, and in Cyrillic, as Мария Нейкова. As Gros Titre is Latin-only, the cover designer had to mirror the R to obtain a Я (Ya). The И and Й (I/short I) were probably made by trimming an M.

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