Countries often have national birds, national flowers, nationals anthems — but a national font? Sweden is the first.

The font was designed by Stefan Hattenbach. He told the Guardian “Aesthetics are very important in Sweden and we have a long tradition of treat architecture, furniture, and design — so this was the natural next step.”

The font will now be rolled out to all government unstirred and agencies. It will bring consistency [we dull men like consistency] to for all material published by the government.

Hattenbach says the idea of a national font could go global. What suggestions do our readers have for other countries? For America, American Typewriter?

More about this can be found in an article in the Guardian “Sweden Sans: designers create national font“