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LX TYPE

TitleLX TYPE
BrandLISBON CITY COUNCIL
Product/ServiceCITY OF LISBON
Category C02. MICROSITE
Entrant Company LEO BURNETT LISBOA, PORTUGAL
Advertising Agency LEO BURNETT LISBOA, PORTUGAL
Credits
Name Company Position
Luciana Cani Leo Burnett Lisboa Executive Creative Director
Nuno Salvaterra Leo Burnett Lisboa Head Of Art
Guilherme Nunes Leo Burnett Lisboa Art Director
Jaime Nascimento Leo Burnett Lisboa Copywriter
Nuno Frade Leo Burnett Lisboa Head Of Digital Production
Hugo Lage Leo Burnett Lisboa Director

Creative Execution

The LX Type is not just a typography because on the website lxtype.pt, where it can be explored and downloaded for free, everyone can test the font and find out a place associated with each letter, transforming words in spontaneous and personalized guides of the city.

In one month, more than 5,000 downloads of the font were made and more than 7,500 itineraries were created, but that’s not all. The LX Type originated a hashtag for instragamers to look more at the Lisbon skies and stories about how people connected with the typography. And just like the wires spread through the city streets, the official font of Lisbon spread through national and international press, television and internet.

The iconic trams of Lisbon do not go unnoticed to anyone. Neither they nor the wires that provide them with energy and that are spread across the city's most charismatic neighborhoods. So we looked at these in a different way and found a typography in its complex mesh. And like that, the LX Type – The official font Lisbon was born. But this is not just a typography because on the website lxtype.pt, where it can be explored and downloaded for free, everyone can test the font and find out a place associated with each letter, transforming words in spontaneous and personalized guides of the city.