BC Orion

[Frode Helland]

It might be tempting to label Maršo’s sans serifs as lesser communist rip-offs of the popular capitalist typefaces Helvetica and Univers (issued just a few years earlier), but that would not be a fair assessment. Where the Swiss modernists shed any remnants of calligraphy, Maršo embraces the artifacts of the written letter for their own graphic expressiveness, and he was not afraid to rotate the pen.