Functional branding
10 March 2012
What really got the ball rolling was that Nokia had a hardcore deadline for the user interface environment. The UI needs to carry the brand really, so when we started to develop the criteria for what the typeface should do, we had to look at pure functionality: it needed to be legible at the smallest and largest sizes.
Bruno Maag, in Twenty-six characters
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