Bubblegum
Bubblegum
by Erica Brandi
Font anatomy of the source font
ascender Cap x-height
baseline descender
Gum Angle of cut: -70°
Gamestation Gamestation --Condensed Condensed Jonas Hecksher, Hecksher,2011 2011
Straight ascenders
No diagonal stress and contrast
drop Straight descenders
lowercase letters
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UPPERCASE LETTERS
ABCDE FGHIJK LMNOP QRSTU VWXYZ
NUMERALS NUMERALS
0123456789
DIACRITICS, DIACRITICS, PUNCTUATION, PUNCTUATION, SIGNS & SYMBOLS SYMBOLS
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Applied brushes on midlines
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Source font with midline
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Outline of my source font
Final letterform
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Evolution
Brushes I have used a single brush, for blunt and very rounded edges
Angle: 0° Roundness: 70% Size: 9pt
This brush was used for: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z. It was also used for all the the numerals, diacritics, punctuation, signs and symbols.
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The Invention and History of Bubblegum "Beethoven can‘t really be great because his picture isn‘t on a bubble gum card.“ Charles M. Schulz Chewing gum has a history that spans as far back as the ancient Greeks, who chewed the resin from mastic trees. But it wasn‘t until 1928 that Walter Diemer happened upon just the right gum recipe to make the very first bubble gum, a special type of chewing gum that allows the chewer to blow big pink bubbles.
Earlier Attempts Diemer might have invented bubble gum, but he wasn‘t the first person who wanted to make gum bubbles. There were earlier attempts at making bubble gum in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but these bubble gums did not sell well because they were considered too wet and usually broke before a good bubble was formed.
Diemer‘s Bubble Gum Diemer gets the credit for inventing the first successful type of bubble gum. At the time, 23-year-old Diemer was an accountant for Fleer Chewing Gum Company, and he experimented with new gum recipes in his spare time. 8pt/10pt
Rosenberg, Jennifer. „The Invention and History of Bubble Gum.“ ThoughtCo, Aug. 27, 2020
Diemer thought it was an accident when he hit upon a formula that was less sticky and more flexible than other types of chewing gum, characteristics that allowed a chewer to make bubbles (even if this discovery took him a year of failed attempts.) Then Diemer actually did have an accident: He lost the recipe the day after his discovery and it took him four months to figure it out again.
Why Pink? Diemer used a pink dye for his new gum because pink was the only color available at the Fleer Chewing Gum Company. Pink remains the industry standard for bubble gum.
Dubble Bubble To test his new recipe, Diemer took 100 samples of the new gum to a nearby store, selling it for a penny apiece. It sold out in a single day. Realizing they had a new, popular type of gum, the owners of Fleer marketed Diemer‘s new gum as "Dubble Bubble.“
Typographic scale 30pt
Do literally whatever makes you happy
26pt
Do literally whatever makes you happy
22pt
Do literally whatever makes you happy
20pt
Do literally whatever makes you happy
18pt
Do literally whatever makes you happy
17pt
Do literally whatever makes you happy
16pt
Do literally whatever makes you happy
15pt
Do literally whatever makes you happy
15pt 16pt 17pt 18pt 20pt 22pt 26pt
30pt
Do literally whatever makes you happy
Do literally whatever makes you happy
Do literally whatever makes you happy
Do literally whatever makes you happy
Do literally whatever makes you happy
Do literally whatever makes you happy
Do literally whatever makes you happy
Do literally whatever makes you happy
Typographic scale
M U G E L B BUB
Font anatomy Round dots
ascender Cap x-height
baseline
descender
Lolli Round angles
Round edges
pop No diagonal stress, very little contrast
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Very rounded shapes
Font characteristics Rounded hooks
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Slightly lower mid-lines
These letters share the same angles and shapes
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X
Y
Q
o
e
c
I used the „o“ as a base to design the letters „e“ and „c“ The eye of the „o“ also helped design letters like: p, q, b, d, g
bq dp The „b“ and „q“ are the exact same letter, the same goes for the „p“ and „d“
a
f I used the same hook for the letters: S, a, s, g, f, j
j
Font relations
B
P
R
The „B“, „P“ and „R“ have the same eye. This was applied for the letters: B, D, P, R
V
W The „V“ and „W“ share the same brushes‘ shapes and angle. This was applied for the letters: M, W, V, X, Y, w, v, x, y
n
m The „n“ was used as base to form these letters: n, m, h, u
h
S
Faculty of Design and Art Free University of Bolzano - Bozen WUP 2020/21 Typeface designed by Erica Brandi
Prof. Antonino Benincasa Andreas Trenker Emilio Grazzi Font created with Illustrator & Fontself