Dalton Maag
Industry | Font Design Branding |
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Founded | London, UK, 1991 |
Founder | Bruno Maag |
Headquarters | London , UK |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Bruno Maag (Chairman) Fabio Haag (Creative Director, Brazil) Lukas Paltram (Creative Director) David Marshall (managing director) Ron Carpenter Vincent Connare |
Number of employees | 45 (2016) |
Website | daltonmaag.com |
Dalton Maag is an independent font foundry with offices in London, UK, and São Paulo, Brazil. It designs fonts for use in corporate identities, logos, and other text uses. Dalton Maag has a library of 30 retail fonts as of 2016 and offers custom font creation and modification services to its clients.
Typefaces
Many of Dalton Maag's typefaces have been designed for corporate clients. Dalton Maag's larger clients include
The
Dalton Maag attracted some publicity when they created
In July 2012 the
Dalton Maag's library of typefaces include Lexia, Aktiv Grotesk, Magpie and Elevon. Elevon was originally created for the Virgin Galactic spaceflight programme.[8]
Magpie was designed by Vincent Connare, who is known for designing Comic Sans. It was called Magpie because of the distinctive descenders in the italic form which are said to resemble the tails of magpies.[9]
In 2015, Dalton Maag designed the
References
- ISBN 978-1-85669-637-1.
- ^ "Ubuntu Font Family". Ubuntu. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
- ^ Erik Spiekermann. "Nokia Sans Character". SpiekerBlog. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
- ^ Edwin Heathcote (11 January 2012). "Market, homes for elderly and hospital vie for design award". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
- ^ "Designs of the Year 2012". Design Museum. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
- ^ "Designs of the Year 2012". Reuters. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
- ^ "Dalton Maag creates Rio 2016 Olympic typeface". Design Week. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
- ^ Gavin Lucas (22 June 2011). "Dalton Maag's Elevon Has Just Taken Off". Creative Review. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
- ^ Vincent Connare. "Magpie" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2011.
- ^ New Bookerly Font and Typography Features