Comments on: Everyone loves/hates the Olympics!

Everyone loves/hates the Olympics!

luriete — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:09:58 -0800

Free the Olympukes. Fontshop, the 500-lb gorilla of type foundries, has released Jonathan Barnbrook's Olympukes dingbat font - which does a good job of reconciling the love/hate relationship many of us have with this most constructed of all sports events - for free. Barnbrook is the politically savage designer behind the Virus typefoundry, and is probably most well-known for collaborations with Damien Hirst and the typefaces Exocet and Mason (which was originally called Manson – and "intended to speak of the uncomfortable associations between elegance and violence" – but was renamed Mason in a fit of ~~pique~~ marketing), which are sold through the fine folks at Emigre.

By: luriete

luriete — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:09:58 -0800

My favorites are the icons for "abuse of human rights ignored by host country," "watching olympics purely for sexual purposes," "stadium build with use of slave labor," "obscure crap sports" and "female athlete that used to be a man."

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:11:58 -0800

very good! : >

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:16:17 -0800

Hehe... curling (that's the letter W in the font).

By: quadog

quadog — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:43:27 -0800

Hey! How did this cultural commentary get in my font!? Seriously, this is a wonderfully subversive creation.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:23:19 -0800

Thanks!

By: Termite

Termite — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:31:53 -0800

A while ago I found the FF Legato font – beautiful, useful, but I can't afford to buy fonts just for fun. When I followed the link I found out that FontFont right now offers it for free for a limited time, as well as Baskerville Old Style. Got 'em both. Thanks luriete!

By: btwillig

btwillig — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:51:10 -0800

Excellent post, thanks.

By: Grod

Grod — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:17:14 -0800

I love fonts