Dalton Maag

Dalton Maag is an independent font foundry with offices in London, UK, and São Paulo, Brazil. It designs fonts for use in corporate identities, logos, and other text uses. Dalton Maag has a library of 30 retail fonts as of 2016 and offers custom font creation and modification services to its clients.

Many of Dalton Maag's typefaces have been designed for corporate clients. Dalton Maag's larger clients include Amazon, Nokia, BMW, Vodafone, Ubuntu and Toyota. They also have a library of typefaces available to purchase from their website. Transport-related typefaces have included "Pantograph" for Manchester Metrolink and "Barlow", named after William Henry Barlow, for St Pancras railway station and the associated High Speed 1 signage. "Barlow" was created from a typeface called "Stroudley", which itself was descended from "Casey", designed for the KCR Corporation in Hong Kong.

The Ubuntu typeface was notable for being created for open source software company Canonical Ltd to use in their Ubuntu operating system, branding and publicity material. It was the first typeface to be designed with the intention that it should be expanded upon by the Open Source community. Because of the free and open-source nature of the Ubuntu operating system, the font is available to download for free.

Dalton Maag attracted some publicity when they created Nokia Pure for the Finnish mobile phone company Nokia, which replaced the earlier Nokia Sans font created by Erik Spiekermann. Spiekermann commented that he was disappointed that Dalton Maag had not consulted him on the new design and accused it of blandness. However, the new design was generally well received elsewhere, and in February 2012 Nokia Pure was nominated for the Design Museum Designs of the Year 2012 award in the graphics category. The font went on to win the Graphics category.