Everyone loves/hates the Olympics!

August 13, 2004 9:09 AM

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.
posted by luriete (7 comments total)

very good! : >
posted by amberglow at 11:11 AM on August 13, 2004

Hehe... curling (that's the letter W in the font).
posted by Krrrlson at 11:16 AM on August 13, 2004

Hey! How did this cultural commentary get in my font!?

Seriously, this is a wonderfully subversive creation.
posted by quadog at 11:43 AM on August 13, 2004

Thanks!
posted by dobbs at 12:23 PM on August 13, 2004

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!
posted by Termite at 12:31 PM on August 13, 2004

Excellent post, thanks.
posted by btwillig at 4:51 PM on August 13, 2004

I love fonts
posted by Grod at 12:17 AM on August 14, 2004