I think it's cool that the government has their own font, but "branding campaigns" often leave me with a bad taste in my mouth.

I think branding campaigns are nice. They establish the feel of the current government, and they standardize things - that's always a relief. Finally, it makes for a nice historical relic after the fact.

It's a nice font. I'm a sucker for thin sans serif.

Now they just need to open source it so the world at large can enjoy this beautiful font.

I don't think its going to be open-source, the typeface is part of the branding and is managed by an design agency.

wow, thanks for posting. didn't expect something like this to be on HN. The Netherlands is proving itself to quite the innovator. that's nothing new really. even more since the last dutch design themed post which was posted: http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with...

Hope they release this font to the public but it is doubtful.

This is certainly a good idea to have the government always use the same font. The modern equivalent of official parchments.

Why is the alignment of the numbers so wonky? Georgia also has similarly weird alignment.

Boo. Georgia's got the coolest numeral typesetting of any commonplace font. If you really think about it, why shouldn't numbers have a "lowercase" mode that features descenders and ascenders?

At least they did a good job; the font is quite professional IMHO.