THE swedish font
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- spoonernyc
anyone know the definitive swedish font? I am doing a tshirt for a friend and it is a swedish word. Any thoughts? I have already set it with Helvetica but it is so overused that it looks kinda lame. Any thought would be appreciated...
peace
spooner
- jox0
I have like 100 fonts that has swedish characters, what kind of font?
- spoonernyc0
sans serif like the swedish world cup team jerseys
- unknown0
you could use Berliner or Frankenstein, I mean that would give it that Euro Arian feel, but not so sure you want that, but that seems hot these days.
- unknown0
yeah those jerseys were nice
- spoonernyc0
are those like the old WW1 fonts? like Old english but with the teutonic twist? nah... looking for something cleaner...
- InVivio0
As boring as they are Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers and Helvetica are the favored Swiss fonts.
- mngy0
What word is it?
- unknown0
yeah those are old world
- spoonernyc0
dunno if it will come through correctly but
böna
b
o with umlaut (I know that is german term)
n
awhich lit. means bean but in downtown stockholm it is slang for 'tough cool chick'. and you have to modify the word with your location for it to make sense
like svensk böna or brooklyn böna
- jox0
hahaha "in downtown stockholm its slang for "tough cool chick"...."
No it's not, unless you're 40+.
- spoonernyc0
jox really?
is it an old term?
I am getting this info from an ex-pat swede who is living in NYC now hasn't been home in a long time..
- blend0
You could call a girl "böna" in Finland. I'm not sure what kind of connotations it has though. I thinks its "babe".
- jox0
really, böna is out of date, it could be something my dad would say. Frankly, I've never heard it in that context.
Tell me what it's all about and I can help you coming up with a name if you want!
- Nypan840
Agree with jox, and another point: there are no "swedish" fonts - at lest not when you’re Swedish, I don’t think about it in that way. You can make all fonts contain swedish characters with minor modifications. So it all comes down to the style you wan’t.