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Singapore Merlion Brand — Cover

About Singapore Merlion Brand

The Singapore Merlion Brand distills fifty years of sovereign identity-building into a single visual system: flag-red pages, chalk-white type, and flat-geometric icons reduced to their minimum strokes. Every surface reads like a Marina Bay wayfinding panel — four scripts stacked with equal weight, an 8-column grid as rigid as an MRT timetable, and zero decorative excess.

Born from the 1972 Merlion sculpture and refined through the 2017 "Passion Made Possible" campaign by BBH Asia-Pacific, this system treats multilingual typography as architecture, not afterthought. The result is a city-state brand calibrated with the same precision Singapore applies to urban planning itself.

Learn more about the Singapore Merlion Brand style

Origin
Singapore — Marina Bay, Orchard Road, Sentosa
Era
1972 Merlion sculpture; 2017 STB 'Passion Made Possible' launch; 2024 refresh
Key figures
Lim Nang Seng · Kwan Sai Kian · BBH Asia-Pacific · STB design office
Movements
Singapore public-sector design discipline · multilingual wayfinding standards · contemporary Asian city-state branding

Singapore Merlion Brand design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

IBM Plex SansHeadings
IBM Plex MonoMono
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