{"id":476582,"date":"2010-03-26T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/26\/fontastic-artist-creates-font-based-on-volvo-240-station-wagon\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:20:00","slug":"fontastic-artist-creates-font-based-on-volvo-240-station-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/476582","title":{"rendered":"Fontastic! Artist creates font based on Volvo 240 Station Wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/timewarp\/\" rel=\"tag\">Classics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/wagons\/\" rel=\"tag\">Wagon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/etc\/\" rel=\"tag\">Etc.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/volvo\/\" rel=\"tag\">Volvo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/design-style\/\" rel=\"tag\">Design\/Style<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alxgeorge.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/18\/240sw_designed-by-alex-george\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"510\" border=\"1\" align=\"top\" alt=\"240SW font by Alex george\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/volvo240swageorge630.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Times New Roman? That&#8217;s for boring people. Graphic artist <a href=\"http:\/\/alxgeorge.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/18\/240sw_designed-by-alex-george\/\">Alex George<\/a> is clearly not a boring person. We know this because his love for the the timelessly awesome, relentlessly bulletproof, and &#8220;absolutely candid&#8221; Volvo 240 Station Wagon spawned what you see above. This, friends, is a font based <em>entirely<\/em> on the design of the inimitable, beloved &#8220;brick.&#8221; It&#8217;s called, quite simply, 240SW. And it&#8217;s brilliant. <\/p>\n<p>You can view more of Alex George&#8217;s work <a href=\"http:\/\/alxgeorge.wordpress.com\/\">over at his blog<\/a>. By the way, if you happen to have a used 240 wagon for sale, Alex would like for you to let him know. <\/p>\n<p> [Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/alxgeorge.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/18\/240sw_designed-by-alex-george\/\">Alex George<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HemmingsNews\/status\/11105006142\">HemmingsNews<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/26\/fontastic-artist-creates-font-based-on-volvo-240-station-wagon\/\">Fontastic! Artist creates font based on Volvo 240 Station Wagon<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:20:00 EST.  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That&#8217;s for boring people. Graphic artist Alex George is clearly not a boring person. We know this because his love for the the timelessly awesome, relentlessly bulletproof, and &#8220;absolutely candid&#8221; Volvo 240 Station Wagon spawned what you see above. This, friends, is a font based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}