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Gumball

Gumball™

by Canada Type
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Complete family of 2 fonts: $24.95 USD
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Gumball Font Family was designed by Richard Weber, Patrick Griffin and published by Canada Type. Gumball contains 2 styles and family package options.

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Gumball Complete Family Pack

 2 fonts

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  • Gumball Gumball

  • Gumball Black Gumball Black

Per Style:

$12.47 USD

Pack of 2 styles:

$24.95 USD

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About Gumball Font Family

We didn't make this font because we thought the letters were pretty. We didn't make this font to look cool. In fact we're ashamed we made this font, and we wish we never had to make it. We hate this font because it tells us that a part of our past was stolen. The only reason we made this font is to let you know this disturbing piece of information: The 1990s were a sham. Remember Raygun? Carson, Brody, Deck, Plazm, all the cool Japanese designs? Experimental this, organic that, blur here, slap-together there? They may as well never have existed. This is the original Gumball, straight from the forgotten days of 1958. Yes, you read right. These letters were designed for the then-mighty Bauer foundry by an unknown named Richard Weber, in NINETEEN FIFTY EIGHT! The original font’s name was Papageno, presumably referencing the name of the bird catcher in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. It was our designer’s duty to inform you of your stolen past. So we made Gumball. It is still hard for us to swallow: These letters are the typographical parallel of Khrushschev, Nixon, deGaulle, Batista, Kerouac, Capote, Levi-Strauss, Peter Gunn, Bridge on the River Kwai, Project Mercury, and three-cent stamps. Gumball is a bubble gum font. It’s round. It’s sickly sweet. It spreads like a viscous stain of blood or honey. It’s good for things like packaging comfort food, and parodying 1990s design. Maybe if you're very imaginative you can come up with a really good use for it and make us all feel better about a lost decade. We urge you to try. We're feeling quite depressed about the whole thing. We're sorry we were the ones who had to inform you of this loss. Now we return to our scheduled font construction.

Designers: Richard Weber, Patrick Griffin

Publisher: Canada Type

Foundry: Canada Type

Original Foundry: Bauersche Giesserei

Design Owner: Canada Type

MyFonts debut: Feb 22, 2005

Gumball™ is a trademark of Canada Type.

About Canada Type

Canada Type is an independent digital lettering and font development studio based in Toronto. We were founded in 2004 by a couple of experienced designers who were not pleased with the quality and licensing terms of fonts around the turn of the century. Since then we have greatly expanded, built a versatile and popular retail catalogue, and helped many designers bring international attention to their talents in the constantly changing and increasingly competitive world of type design.While Canada Type offers a varied library of fonts, our bread and butter are really the bespoke services we’ve been providing to companies across many fields on local, national and global levels. Over the past 20 years, we have developed custom fonts for companies in a variety of sectors, ranging from the marketing, financial and service industries to major film studios, big software corporations, and telecom/broadcast outfits.This is what we love to do, and we’re fortunate to do it on a daily basis. If you consider well-crafted typography essential to your brand’s visual communication, we’re here to help, so please reach out. The promise you get from us is one of care, quality and highly informed, satisfying results.https://canadatype.com

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