Das entfesselte Jahrzehnt by Jens Balzer
On this book jacket from 2019, Marvin Visions (2017), a revival and expansion of Marvin (1969), is used to epitomize the 1970s, alongside the psychedelic background of rainbow-colored swirls complete with florettes, stars, and peace symbols.
From the publisher (translated):
Jens Balzer, one of Germany’s most distinguished cultural journalists, paints a colorful panorama of the seventies, from the moon landing and Woodstock to the oil crisis, the German Autumn and the nihilism of punk. A decade in which pretty much everything changed: The hippies try out unheard-of lifestyles, anti-authoritarian education and the emancipation movement reorganize family and gender relations, global idealism meets apocalyptic fears of the end of the world, and when hackers build the first “personal computer” at the latest, it becomes clear: this is exactly where our present begins.
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Here’s Lodestone, a faithful digitization of Marvin made by Steve Jackaman (top) compared to Mathieu Triay’s Marvin Visions (bottom). The two interpretations were released almost simultaneously.
While the former covers the original style only, Triay expanded the design into a variable font with axes for weight and optical size, and support for Latin and Cyrillic. Shown here is its Big Bold style which stays closest to Michael Chave’s original. It’s distinguished by slightly wider forms and larger counters (see especially A K N R 8), a flag on 1 and more conventional forms for 5 and £.