City of Copenhagen brand guidelines
Copenhagen's design hub documents the municipal identity, detailing custom typefaces and offering organized downloads for logos, icons, patterns, and video assets.
The hub page of Copenhagen's design guide displaying visual identity navigation cards.
The download page presenting civic assets, templates, and video outros with file format tags.
Typography guidelines explaining KBH Sans and KBH Tekst with comparisons and usage rules.
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I really appreciate the civic clarity of Copenhagen's design system. Browsing through the hub, everything feels structured around direct utility for the municipality. The dedicated typography section breaks down KBH Sans across its weights and carefully contrasts it against KBH Tekst for small sizes. Moving over to the download section, I like how every resource is neatly grouped in grey card blocks, paired with explicit file-format badges so you know whether you are grabbing OpenType fonts, vector icons, or video outro assets. It makes working with civic identity straightforward.
At a glance
- Sections
- Cases · Kontakt · Designguide · Download
- Downloads
- ZIP, PDF, PNG, AI, PPTX
- Tone
- Functional, structured, and informative municipal design portal presented in Danish.
What I noticed
- The design guide overview organizes municipal identity elements into navigational cards covering typography, colors, photography, icons, signage, and partnerships.12
- Custom typefaces KBH Sans and KBH Tekst are presented with side-by-side letterform comparisons and practical application examples.3456
- The download hub categorizes assets into grey cards displaying explicit badges for formats like ZIP, PDF, PNG, AI, and PPTX.78
Numbers refer to the screenshots above.
What I could not see
- Could not inspect the full contents of individual subpages like Farver, Fotos, or Skilte beyond the hub card links.
- Could not view the live interactive behavior of the search feature.
Ideas to borrow
- Pairing text-optimized typefaces with display cuts in an annotated comparison diagram helps designers quickly grasp optical size choices.5
Quick answers
Where can I download the official City of Copenhagen logo?
The logo ('Københavnermærket') is available as a ZIP archive in both standard and English versions directly on the Download page.91011
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