Lease a Bike partners with Jumbo Visma
Lease a Bike partnered up with Team Jumbo-Visma (Winner Tour de France 2022) as a sub-sponsor, that means the Lease a Bike logo will be visible on the cycling jersey throughout 2023.
I took on the challenge to redesign the Lease a Bike logo in 2021. I landed on a beautiful modern sans-serif word-mark with a clever touch on the "b" resembling the front side of a bike.
Bicycle symbolism
If you live or visited the Netherlands, it is highly likely you came across a bicycle related sign (the blue cycle path sign is the most common).
I got inspired by the comparison I saw between the front wheel and fork of a bicycle, and the stem and bowl of the letter b. The challenge was to find a proper way to maintain the readability of the "b" without losing the shape of the bicycle wheel.
To make the bicycle symbolism more pronounced, we revised the handlebar afterward.
Typography design
The sans-serif typeface is custom-built from scratch. The circle of the "b" guides both the character weight and the widths of the "a", "e", "s", and "k". Slightly open kerning adds visual balance and consistency. As a result, the typeface stays highly readable, even at smaller sizes.
“Lease” stacks above “a bike” to create a compact layout. The standalone "b" works best for small display icons. The full wordmark suits medium and larger sizes.
Read more about the partnership between teamjumbovisma.com (English) and leaseabike.nl (Dutch)
