Paul Robb · CLIENT: S6 Foundry
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.
Press Kit
- 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.
- Project Duration
- The typeface was developed in 2022
- 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.
- Image Credits
- Copyright 2022 Paul Henry Robb
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Paul Henry Robb, 2022
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