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The Stunning Rio 2016™ Olympic Font Design by Dalton Maag

Written by Graham Smith: @imjustcreative—the original Logo Smith since '86.

Written by Graham Smith: @imjustcreative

Rio 2016™ Olympics font by Dalton Maag

This is one seriously delightful font, designed by the prestigious Dalton Maag, for the Rio 2016 Olympics. What truely amazes me is how bloody hard it has to be has to be create a totally unique, yet stunningly beautiful, brush script style font, and Dalton Maag have utterly blitzed that challenge.

I took one look at this and instantly fell in love with it’s flowing curvy shape whilst having it’s own unique style, and let’s not forget to mention aspects of the fonts’ lettering having been inspired from real world geographical forms, and physical objects.

Would so love to get my hands on this font, but doubt it will be made available for general use—although it has been known for slightly altered versions to be made available for sale, I guess this ultimately comes down to the agreement with the Olympics. Maybe also we might have more chance of seeing it as a commercial release after the Olympics when the Rio 2016 brand starts to fade.

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yellowllama says July 24, 2012 at 11:36 am

@imjustcreative that’s just gorgeous, wow.

clauseggers says July 24, 2012 at 2:06 pm

@DaltonMaag You should rewrite the text here: http://t.co/ZNbA1VZY It’s poor english bordering on comical.

clauseggers says July 24, 2012 at 2:06 pm

@DaltonMaag But the typeface is hot :-) Congratulations!

Pegic says July 24, 2012 at 2:45 pm

@shaun_burns @imjustcreative people just don’t realise how much work goes into good design!

GyorgySzimuly says July 24, 2012 at 2:54 pm

@imjustcreative Is it for sale on any site?

jtdesigns says July 24, 2012 at 8:39 pm

@christianbclark cool

pythonista says July 24, 2012 at 9:03 pm

@jillcorral Since it’s in Olympics IP territory, I doubt it’s free to use :-(

jillcorral says July 24, 2012 at 9:11 pm

@pythonista I’ll have to sate myself with scrawling Mrs. Jill Rio 2016™ all over my notebooks.

KathrynforAD says July 24, 2012 at 9:06 pm

RT @imjustcreative The Stunning Rio 2016™ Olympic Font Design by @DaltonMaag http://t.co/3fF0hnCV

huard_olivier says July 25, 2012 at 8:24 am

@TomA_Dix9 @imjustcreative SUPERBE

Zerahlynne says August 5, 2012 at 8:50 pm

I was secretly hoping for Comic Sans @_MattShaw – but this Olympic font is pretty cool too I suppose ;)

_MattShaw says August 5, 2012 at 9:00 pm

@Zerahlynne there’s still time to get a petition going

Erickas1jvrp says August 8, 2012 at 1:45 pm

@designbyalison http://t.co/qqAvPBWe

Neilvrl6e7p8 says August 10, 2012 at 11:35 pm

@PoeTrees http://t.co/3RMLju4W

madonnaarsan says August 13, 2012 at 6:25 pm

@KeithStoeckeler after the London 2012 font, anything qualifies to be considered as stunning.

Tanishafzogc6 says August 14, 2012 at 2:33 pm

@cusacklikemusic http://t.co/RR69kXcm

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Tagged: Dalton Maag, fonts, Rio 2016 Olympics, typeface

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