Bla Bla Serif Typeface Specimen by Paul Robb is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
BronzeGraphic· 2023
Bla Bla Serif Typeface Specimen
by Paul Robb
Client: S6 Foundry
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
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About Bla Bla Serif Typeface Specimen
Bla Bla is a contemporary serif typeface inspired by brutalist forms, featuring large open counters, and curved, round forms, creating a modern & elegant glyph set. The organic curves with gentle repetitions create powerful and harmonious forms. Designed to be a stylish modern family it is perfect for communication and branding projects. Each weight includes more than 700 glyphs with stylistic letter and numeral sets and alternative glyphs and discretionary ligatures.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Bla Bla Serif Typeface Specimen is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Bla Bla Serif Typeface Specimen is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Bla Bla Serif Typeface Specimen splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Bla Bla is a contemporary serif typeface inspired by brutalist forms, featuring large open counters, and curved, round forms, creating a modern & elegant glyph set. The organic curves with gentle repetitions create powerful and harmonious forms. Designed to be a stylish modern family it is perfect for communication and branding projects.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The typeface is available in TTF, OTf and WOFF formats and printed on newsprint in CMYK
- Tags
- Font design, Branding, Identity, Type design, Type Specimen
- Production Technology
- The typeface was first hand drawn and developed in Glyphs.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was to develop something completely new ad brutalism is more synonymous with sans fonts, so developing a new language and approach to a stylist serif typeface.
- Research
- One of the hardest parts of the design was translating architecture into a serif typeface. Through the study of sections and observations of light and shadow upon building structures we were able to identify forms that developed the shapes of the serif.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for the typeface is in brutalist forms. Taking that inspiration from the ideas of architectural forms and developing it into a serif typeface, using forms and a mathematical grid.
- Project Duration
- The typeface was developed in 2022
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Paul Henry Robb, 2022
- Team Members
- Paul Henry Robb
- Image Credits
- Copyright 2022 Paul Henry Robb
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