Altoids: Exercises in Style

da ao2, October 23, 2013

After my cool non-sense story about Android 5 I wanted to get back again to the Altoids theme and expand a bit on it.

The “Aldroino” board I envisioned at the time became a reality with the BeagleBone Black, which can indeed run Android, however a cool tin box for it was still missing and I felt I ought to do something about it.

Meet AKOP

AKOP —the Altoids Knock-Offs Project— is a collection of customized logos inspired to the Altoids one, the logos are intended to be for personal fun and as an homage to Altoids boxes.

The graphics are meant to be printed on adhesive paper, then cut and sticked on blank Altoids sized tins, like for instance the ones from adafruit or the much cheaper ones from SpecialtyBottle.

If anyone is interested in the PNGs or in the original Inkscape and GIMP files, just get in touch; the files are too big to host on my web server but maybe some other way to make them public can be arranged.

Some legalese stuff

Altoids is a registered trademark now owned by Wrigley;
Android is a registered trademark of Google Inc.;
Arduino is a registered trademark of Arduino team;
Antonio is just my first name;
the name Ladyada refers here to the founder of Adafuit Industries.

Link corto: https://ao2.it/97

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by E$ (non verificato) | Mar, 18/10/2016 - 22:13

Hey! Love these

Hey! Love these graphics.
What fonts did you use for the "curiously open-system" and the "ANDROID" texts?
I want to make my own personal version of the altoids logo!
Thanks!

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by ao2 | Gio, 08/12/2016 - 20:35

Hi, the font used in the

Hi,

the font used in the original Altoids logo resembles the "Dutch MediaEval Bold" font, but I think it's a custom font; I traced the letters in Inkscape and created new letters trying to match the style of the original logo.

The font of the tagline is "Libre Semi Serif Bold".

Ciao, Antonio

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by Anonymous (non verificato) | Mer, 28/12/2016 - 21:33

Can you export the letters as

Can you export the letters as an Adobe Illustrator or eps file please?

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by Anonymous (non verificato) | Mar, 04/04/2017 - 14:38

These look awesome, could you

These look awesome, could you send me the gimp files?

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by Anonymous (non verificato) | Lun, 10/12/2018 - 06:38

Wow! Your labels look great.

Wow! Your labels look great. I would like to customize and use them for a personal party. Would you please send me the Inkscape and GIMP files? I've been trying to imitate the font on my Mac with much less success than you. TIA!