Bla Bla Serif Typeface Specimen by Paul Robb

Bronze Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design · 2023

Bla Bla Serif Typeface Specimen

by Paul Robb

A' Design Award 2023 Bronze Winner in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Awarded April 15, 2023
CLIENT: S6 Foundry
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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.

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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.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Paul Henry Robb, 2022