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Lagos Danfo Slogans — Cover

About Lagos Danfo Slogans

The danfo is Lagos's yellow minibus, and the yellow is not a choice — the 2018 Transport Sector Reform Law requires it, and LASTMA impounds anything else. Underneath the mandated coat sits cheap enamel over filler and rust, respray on respray, and across it run the slogans: No condition is permanent. No King as God. Blood of Jesus.

This system takes that body panel as its ground. Two black flank stripes set the horizontal band structure, slogans sit large and fitted between them, and the type is Afrotype's Danfo — a Tuscan slab reverse-engineered in 2022 from the hand-cut vinyl on these buses.

Learn more about the Lagos Danfo Slogans style

Origin
Lagos, Nigeria
Era
1990–2020 on a form that emerged in the 1970s; Danfo typeface released 2022
Key figures
Seyi Olusanya · Abu
Movements
West African vehicle lettering · Hand-painted signwriting · Vinyl-cut sticker type

Lagos Danfo Slogans design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

DanfoHeadings
Noto SansBody
Noto Sans MonoMono
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