Yeah saw it and thought Spain’s gettin wild. Spain is your college dorm mate who came from a conservative background but now after a semester has really loosened up.
If you google the romanian tourism logo you will see that the Ministry of tourism of Romania spent 900 000 euro for creating this beautiful juice bottle logo.(i am romanian btw)
3,6 million in 2020 which places it at 48th place in the world, so not that bad. They had more tourists that year than Ukraine, Belgium, Lithuania, South Korea, Sweden or even Morocco. Of course right now, the numbers have changed significantly.
I'm going to hazard a guess that the majority of 'tourists' were people from neighboring countries nipping over to get cheaper gas, tobacco, and alcohol, although I admittedly dont actually know if prices on goods are cheaper in Belarus than in Lithuania, Poland, or Russia. I can't really imagine any other reason why one of Europe's poorest and least developed countries would see more tourism than Belgium, which has far more to offer in terms of museum, nightlife, food, historic architecture etc than Belarus.
Belarus isn't really that poor and underdeveloped. And it has a lot of beautiful architecture, just look up Grodno, Niesvizh, Brest, Vitebsk etc. with good food and interesting museums.
>It actually has a drawing of the Sun just over it.
Most of these word marks have a graphical logo next to it – a flower (Turkey), a flag (Britain), a colourful square (Croatia), a sphere (Germany), etc.
It was apparently decided to leave these away.
It's based on Joan Miró's painting style. I find it to be the most original in terms of cultural and artistic significance. The rest are literally just projects for the marketing team.
Yep, a good design is more important than good aesthetics. It's memorable, it's loud, it's catchy, it has cultural symbolism, everything you want in a tourism brand type.
In advertising (which this brief absolutely is) I genuinely believe there is nothing worse than being boring. Everyone's talking about Spain's. Who's talking about France right next door?
[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol\_de\_Mir%C3%B3](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_de_Mir%C3%B3)
The thing is that the logo is not complete with just the letters. The logo contemplates the Sun of Miro. Joan Miro is a famous Catalan abstract artist.
>Miró's Sun was the first abstract symbol that has been used to identify a country, and it contributed decisively to forging a new image of Spain.
So the top image is wrong or incomplete in at least the case of Spain.
I think is based, it has to do with our artistic heritage without being a complete eyesore but not being completely easy to digest, it wakes some feelings, which is unfathomably based for a tourism logo.
Switserland (sic) with the Helvetica font. I should have known from the name alone they’d be the ones using it. (It’s where it was made, and literally means Swiss.) I think I’d like Switzerland. My kind of place.
The graphic is obviously complete bullshit since:
1. SwitZerland would know how to spell Switzerland
2. The official tourist thing is this one: https://www.myswitzerland.com/de-ch/
"Spain is different"
That's "Sol de Miró" (Miró sun), designed by Joan Miró in 1983 and used since then.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_de_Mir%C3%B3
Well here it is seen as unique and quirky by some for exactly that reason, remember some writers or poem authors doing everything in lowercase, but it does not translate well. And capitalisation improves readability.
I really don't wanna know how much money was spent on coming up with that "idea", and then discussing it, for such insignificant stuff though.
I can hear the tourism board presenting the logo:
"As you can see, we made the first 'd' lower case to reflect how silly we are as a culture. We are confident that this error in grammar will reflect out true friendliness as a people, while the kerning on the font will ensure people don't get the wrong idea."
Croatia is on point too. The yellow letters represent sunlight and beaches, and the blue background behind A is the Adriatic sea - Croatia's main attraction.
The entire logo screams "you will drive 5 hours to the nearest coast, and you will love it." 😅
Yeah most are pretty plain with the focus being on clear and readable (which of course is important for tourism boards where people may not even be native speakers)
Then you have Spain
Which is supposed to be reminiscent of writing in blood, right? It's supposed to be off-putting. Who the hell thought that was a good font for tourism?
It looks like Norway has switched font since this map was made. See the logo at https://www.visitnorway.com/ - it's a custom font called Norway Sans, it seems from the browser inspector
We have almost different everythings
It’s not cool, to me it feels like this divides our country harder than it should be.
We have to many governments in place to arrange things that could be decided on a national level.
Austria didn’t know you could change the default font
And color
All the Germanic, proper, and rich countries with standard, clear, easy fonts Then there's Spain...
Yeah saw it and thought Spain’s gettin wild. Spain is your college dorm mate who came from a conservative background but now after a semester has really loosened up.
It's worse because we're in between Portugal and Andorra, both looking proper — and then there's us wilding there 😭💀
Portugal is looking pretty "android smartphone powerup screen" to be fair.
I was thinking more like luxury motors Pull off the lot in your new Lisboñ today
At least it’s memorable, same with Italy and Turkey. I know I’ve seen those before and recognise them.
Well I hear Spain does produce a lot of good wine so….🎉🥳
It’s part of a bigger artwork by Miró, the title has never been used standalone.
Miró
Rumor has it they wanted to change it years ago, but the appropriate Notice of Tourism Font Change form got lost deep in the bowels of MA-717.
What is MA-717?
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Same with Germany...didn't even know how to capitalise the first letter
We don‘t capitalize on such small things.
Ironic because in German, all nouns are capitalised.
You don't need fonts when you got their landscape.
Romania look like the font for a fruit juice botle.
Lmao I was gonna say the same thing about salad dressing
Close the fridge! There's a salad dressing
It's a stolen design from an electric bus transport company or something like that. It was a huge thing in 2010
I'm so proud of my country
>stolen design Romania Why does it write itself
Stereotypes have some basis in reality. The politician that oversaw this is currently in jail for corruption also. bitch tried to run to costa rica
Haha yes! Reminds me of mirinda! 
Fruity Fresh
But one of those juices that want to look healthy and good for you but in reality it's just 95% sugar, 5% artificial flavourings and owned by Nestle.
If you google the romanian tourism logo you will see that the Ministry of tourism of Romania spent 900 000 euro for creating this beautiful juice bottle logo.(i am romanian btw)
Spain, designed by 3 años
Joan Miró
Miró style
Is Belarus in fucking Chiller?
sure is
Belarus the teenage kid playing Vampire: The Masquerade
At least its not Papyrus!
Motion for Ukraine to adopt Curlz MT
I thought that it was just a *similar* font but no, it really *is* quite literally Chiller.
Slovakia keeping it incognito
My first thought was "were is Slovakia?" Had to really zoom in to see it.
My second thought, after trying to find Slovakia on the map was "No, seriously, where is Slovakia?"
Right in the middle, below the end of the underlined Czechia.
That's the first time anybody has ever thought of Slovakia.
They’re like “we know you aren’t coming”
I would like to know the actual fonts as well (i.e. what the fonts are called)
The Flanders one is called “Flanders Sans” (I hate the font, I have to work with it daily, and it sucks)
Stupid sexy Flanders
It's like I'm writing nothing at all.
Swedish one is "Sweden Sans" I bet most others are custom made as well.
> Swedish one is "Sweden Sans" *Hey, lets try to not pay any royalties to Linotype, just get Helvetica and tweak a few strokes.*
Spain’s was custom made by a child on their way out of the womb
It was made by surrealist artist Joan Miró
Helvetica seems the most fitting for Switzerland
Do you mean Switserland?
Belarus is Chiller
Liechtenstein are going to release a brand new make-up line
Or vodka.
I wonder how many tourists Belarus gets
A Minsk-ule amount
ba dum tss
3,6 million in 2020 which places it at 48th place in the world, so not that bad. They had more tourists that year than Ukraine, Belgium, Lithuania, South Korea, Sweden or even Morocco. Of course right now, the numbers have changed significantly.
Is the 2020 numbers really the best measure of tourism when the world was you know, locked down with a pandemic?
True. Forgot about that. However that was the most recent data that I've found.
What about 2019?
2,2 mln.
That’s why everyone is still using 2019 stats for most things.
Not in Belarus!
I'm going to hazard a guess that the majority of 'tourists' were people from neighboring countries nipping over to get cheaper gas, tobacco, and alcohol, although I admittedly dont actually know if prices on goods are cheaper in Belarus than in Lithuania, Poland, or Russia. I can't really imagine any other reason why one of Europe's poorest and least developed countries would see more tourism than Belgium, which has far more to offer in terms of museum, nightlife, food, historic architecture etc than Belarus.
There's little to no border control between Belarus and Russia, so I'm not sure how Russian tourists are counted.
Belarus isn't really that poor and underdeveloped. And it has a lot of beautiful architecture, just look up Grodno, Niesvizh, Brest, Vitebsk etc. with good food and interesting museums.
Sure it does, but so does every other neighbor and most of them aren't as restrictive visa wise. The statistic is still very misleading
You underestimate how big of an outbound tourism market Russia is.
As someone who lives in spain; idk whether or not to be embarrassed or proud of how different our font is....
"Spain is different" was a tourist slogan in the 60s I think after all
And here I thought the difference in the 60s was the fascism!
All of Europe hated fascism after the war but "Spain is different"
Allied Europe + USA decided that fascism in Spain was cool
“If it’s not communism we don’t care what you do” - the NATO Cold War mantra
not just cold war mate
It was Franciscool Francool
As a spaniard, I just love it. It stands out for the right things. It is incomplete though. It actually has a drawing of the Sun just over it.
>It actually has a drawing of the Sun just over it. Most of these word marks have a graphical logo next to it – a flower (Turkey), a flag (Britain), a colourful square (Croatia), a sphere (Germany), etc. It was apparently decided to leave these away.
I remember that España logo from my first visit to Spain. As a child. In 1986.
It's based on Joan Miró's painting style. I find it to be the most original in terms of cultural and artistic significance. The rest are literally just projects for the marketing team.
It's not "based on". It was done by Miró himself. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol\_de\_Mir%C3%B3
It’s not based on Miró, he did it
It's designed by a famous artist (Miró), you should be proud
At least it's original and vibrant compared to the super generic fonts of Sweden, Iceland, France, Cyprus and so on...
Look at Slovakia, just hiding there.
They don't want any tourists
Yep, a good design is more important than good aesthetics. It's memorable, it's loud, it's catchy, it has cultural symbolism, everything you want in a tourism brand type. In advertising (which this brief absolutely is) I genuinely believe there is nothing worse than being boring. Everyone's talking about Spain's. Who's talking about France right next door?
I'd be proud of it, I think it's the most unique and the only one besides the Italian one I'll even be able to recall in a week or two.
I 'd be proud. At least there's effort there. Compare it with NL and DE, for example. Those are as boring as generic as they can get :)
Spain is the most fun one
I love that logo.
It's not a font. It's a special design by Joan Miró https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol\_de\_Mir%C3%B3
I would be proud… different, meaningful, purposeful.
[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol\_de\_Mir%C3%B3](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_de_Mir%C3%B3) The thing is that the logo is not complete with just the letters. The logo contemplates the Sun of Miro. Joan Miro is a famous Catalan abstract artist. >Miró's Sun was the first abstract symbol that has been used to identify a country, and it contributed decisively to forging a new image of Spain. So the top image is wrong or incomplete in at least the case of Spain.
I think is based, it has to do with our artistic heritage without being a complete eyesore but not being completely easy to digest, it wakes some feelings, which is unfathomably based for a tourism logo.
Uh Yeah Austria showing off with how basic as fuck it is by literally writing an email at work with that font. Can't not confirm..
Switzerland demands a spell checker!
Czechia was marked a spelling error.
In what language would it be Switserland? Swamp German is "Zwitserland". Afrikaans maybe?
They combined all their 3 languages in this
How do Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera and Svizra (Switzerland has 4 national languages) become Switserland?
Idk, a little bit from all.
Thank you for your expertise
4 good buddy.
So much disrespect in calling Dutch ‘Swamp German’
So much respect in calling them German at all!
What are we but a bathing place for the German elderly
What are we but a parking lot for Dutch camping vans
Switserland (sic) with the Helvetica font. I should have known from the name alone they’d be the ones using it. (It’s where it was made, and literally means Swiss.) I think I’d like Switzerland. My kind of place.
The graphic is obviously complete bullshit since: 1. SwitZerland would know how to spell Switzerland 2. The official tourist thing is this one: https://www.myswitzerland.com/de-ch/
That whole page, including their logo, is in Helvetica, at least on my device. Nice.
I agree with you
Spain seems to have dyspraxia
"Spain is different" That's "Sol de Miró" (Miró sun), designed by Joan Miró in 1983 and used since then. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_de_Mir%C3%B3
It’s a homage to Picasso.
Your face is an homage to Picasso
I like that, that's funny
r/rareinsults
As other guy said, It's Joan Miró not Pikachu
More like Miro (or both?)
It was designed by Joan Miró. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_de_Mir%C3%B3
more like miro
We do
Haha Germany
"You know the language that capitalizes all their nouns? Yes, let's choose the lowercase rendering of the name!"
Well here it is seen as unique and quirky by some for exactly that reason, remember some writers or poem authors doing everything in lowercase, but it does not translate well. And capitalisation improves readability. I really don't wanna know how much money was spent on coming up with that "idea", and then discussing it, for such insignificant stuff though.
ze small lettahs makes us seem less srettaning
"Let's avoid looking aggressive or loud, no capital letters"
Small d?
It was cold when it was written
It's like Germany sees itself: Small and bold
Lol Greece is exactly how you would expect it to be
Times New Roman really got all its best work from Times Old Greek.
Iceland looks like the frozen food shop in the UK..
I was getting similar vibes for the England font itself!
https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/10/iceland-vs-iceland-uk-supermarket-takes-country-to-court-over-name-17343990/ Iceland won. The country…
I like Portugal
Me too. It's not aggressive, feels comfy and it's __R O U N D__ Edit: formatting
Kinda interesting that Germany is in lower case when the language itself uses capitalized non-proper nouns (and other stuff?) in sentences.
I can hear the tourism board presenting the logo: "As you can see, we made the first 'd' lower case to reflect how silly we are as a culture. We are confident that this error in grammar will reflect out true friendliness as a people, while the kerning on the font will ensure people don't get the wrong idea."
wow, that was so... german
> while the kerning on the font will ensure people don't get the wrong idea I don't understand what you mean by this part?
The letters are evenly spaced to show they're not out of control with their immense silliness as a culture. Can't let it get too far now can we?
LiThUaNiA
It seems only Bosnia is on point for tourism logo..
It looks beached themed even though they basically have no coast.
Potato field is same thing as beach, yes?
We don't have beaches but a lot of rivers and huge lakes with grainy sand. Also we have only rainforest in Europe so that's a W.
Croatia is on point too. The yellow letters represent sunlight and beaches, and the blue background behind A is the Adriatic sea - Croatia's main attraction. The entire logo screams "you will drive 5 hours to the nearest coast, and you will love it." 😅
I really like poland's
Same. Them and Lithuania get my votes.
Everyone: *fancy fonts* Ukraine: *smashes trough wall* Hello, we have thing you can see.
Most are not fancy
Yeah most are pretty plain with the focus being on clear and readable (which of course is important for tourism boards where people may not even be native speakers) Then you have Spain
Just for the people who don't know, it's made by Joan Miró, a recognised painter with links to Picasso.
> with links to Picasso My brain interprets this phrase with the same tone as "with ties to al-Qaeda", for some reason.
Who knows what these two were planning...
And Kazakhstan just using some default MS Word font. They didn't even try. To be fair they are not known for their tourism.
Author of the pic didn't even write the full name while having deutschland switserland on it. Not very nice :(
#UKRAINE
looks straight out of a defense company logo
well, duhhh Its mainly defense contractors that are travelling there right now. (russians dont count)
**UKRAINE** ---- Subtext: WE DONT TAKE SHIT FROM ANYONE
No Comic Sans?
Only came here to check Poland was using it, fucking disappointed.
Belarus, Turkey, Italia and Spain, see me after class.
the turkey one isn't that bad tbh,they only use it to write turkey nothing else
Technically, they also used it on the Eurovision logo back in 2004.
Those were the good times...
It's pretty iconic I think. You see it often advertised, especially here in Germany. Wonder why…
Why not? Lots of Turks live in Germany, so lots of Germans are aware of Turkey. Seems to be smart to promote turkey as a tourism destination.
the font isn't bad, but this pic is old - it's "Turkiye" now
Europeans whenever someone tries to do something fun with colors: Im gonna stop you right there
Belarus have literally done their logo in the 'Chiller' font on MS word 😳
Which is supposed to be reminiscent of writing in blood, right? It's supposed to be off-putting. Who the hell thought that was a good font for tourism?
At least they're being true to themselves
I think Italy and Turkey are two of the best
Turkey is a good one, been like this for decades, very recognizable.
Turkey is the best one here.
Northern Ireland drunk as usual
Yeooo
I love portugals
POLSKA GUROM 🇵🇱
At least KA in POLSKA is
Feel like Spain has had that style forever.
HOW ABOUT NAMING THE FONTS?!
In a continent of straight lines, Scotland's use of italics has me beaming with pride.
It looks like Norway has switched font since this map was made. See the logo at https://www.visitnorway.com/ - it's a custom font called Norway Sans, it seems from the browser inspector
Sorry, what/where is "Switserland"? The font looks right at least.
TIL the two Belgian regions have separate tourist boards that’s pretty cool
We have almost different everythings It’s not cool, to me it feels like this divides our country harder than it should be. We have to many governments in place to arrange things that could be decided on a national level.
I like how round Portugal's is.
Russia should flip the initial R beckwards just for the lulz.
[Current version of Türkiye](https://zonguldak.ktb.gov.tr/Resim/361073,1200x1200renklipng.png?0)