Viva La Revolucion!

The Obama Campaign rolled out some new fonts on the campaign last week. The typeface chosen for the word ‘America’ was starkly different that anything we had seen before. Buzzfeeds Zeke Miller found out that the font was named Revolution Gothic. According to myfonts.com the typeface origin is seeded in Cuban Communist propaganda.

“The original font is inspired by retro propaganda posters and wallpaintings in Cuba from the 60s to 80s.”

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