Bungee’s simple, open letterforms are reminiscent of Art Deco styles, and its straight-sided letterforms reinforce a sense of verticality. In appreciation of their colorful, decorative letterforms, I created inline, outline, and shade layers for Bungee, which can be overlaid in different colors to create a variety of chromatic effects. “I began photographing all sorts of similar signage in my travels, and decided to create Bungee as an homage to these kinds of urban signs. It wasn’t the most attractive sign, but it got me thinking about whether a typeface could be designed to succeed in a vertically oriented environment.

“When I lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2011, there was a liquor store at the end of my block where the word LIQUOR was stacked vertically so the letters could be large and visible as possible without forcing the sign to stick out into the street. Recently, I launched my own foundry, DJR, and Bungee is one of my first releases.” What inspired your Google font, Bungee? I was hired by The Font Bureau, where I learned so much working with other type designers on custom and retail type design projects. As part of my senior thesis, I designed a type series for the text and headlines of our student newspaper, as well as a handful of display faces including my Wild West font Manicotti. “I became interested in typography while attending Hampshire College in Massachusetts. David Jonathan Rossįont designer David Jonathan Ross is from LA originally, but now based in Boston, where he works with The Font Bureau, a leading type foundry with clients like The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and filmmaker Wes Anderson (they publish the font for Moonrise Kingdom created by Jessica Hische). David Jonathan Ross, who runs his own type foundry DJR, and Eleni Beveratou, a Font Developer with London studio Dalton Maag, share some insight into the process of bringing a brand new font to life. Who are the designers behind Google’s favorite typefaces? We spoke to two of them to find out what it takes to design a font for Google. From classic to creative, the new font selection supports over 135 languages, and is set up to let typography buffs easily discover new fonts by browsing through style categories like Serif or Handwriting.

From there you can install it in a number of apps.The new, updated Google Fonts is a treasure trove of open source, totally free-to-use typefaces. Note, that you can only export your font with the premium version of the app.īefore you can access your font in any app, you need to first export it, and save it to your iCloud drive in your Files App in a folder that’s easy to access. otf fonts which are compatible in a number of your favorite digital drawing apps from Procreate to Adobe Fresco.

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