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It really doesn't matter how much attention you spend on typeface and design if the way you greet visitors is with an obnoxious "are you sure you don't want our tracking cookies?" where I have to click two tiny checkboxes, followed by a user-hostile trick bold "accept all" button next to the faded "accepted selected" option. If you really wanted to improve UX, one of those things is more worthy of attention.
I think the UK has done a great job with their government website and their digital platforms. So it's good to see more governments getting into it as well.
More recently I found about Finlandica for Finland, quite nice too. https://toolbox.finland.fi/brand-identity-and-guidelines/fin...
Sweden Sans logically implies America Bold and Italy Italic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italic_type
> The name comes from the fact that calligraphy-inspired typefaces were first designed in Italy, to replace documents traditionally written in a handwriting style called chancery hand. Aldus Manutius and Ludovico Arrighi (both between the 15th and 16th centuries) were the main type designers involved in this process at the time.
> The first use in a complete volume was a 1501 edition of Virgil dedicated to Italy [...]
> Italic type rapidly became very popular and was widely (and inaccurately) imitated. The Venetian Senate gave Aldus exclusive right to its use, a patent confirmed by three successive Popes, but it was widely counterfeited as early as 1502
I am Swedish and I've never heard of the Sweden Sans font before. The font doesn't look very "Swedish" to me and is completely different from the font used on road signage, for example. For running text the font doesn't work at all imo.
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Does Cloudflare DNS block it? Or are you proposing Cloudflare DNS as a solution?
It's the other way around. The site blocks Cloudflare for some political reasons that have been mentioned here before, but I can't remember what they were.
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It's definitely interesting how countries have their own PR these days. And it's working, if you think of a nordic country, chances are, Sweden is the first one that comes to mind.
> Sweden is the first one that comes to mind Is it? Norway has been topping all the livability charts for at least the past decade so that's the one I've always considered "the best in the world." Then probably the Netherlands, if you stretch the definition of Nordic.