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GummiType AOE

by Astigmatic
Individual Styles from $19.00 USD
Complete family of 2 fonts: $30.00 USD
The GummiType AOE Font Family was designed by Brian J. Bonislawsky and published by Astigmatic. GummiType AOE contains 2 styles and family package options.

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Recovered from the Astigmatic Institute’s Experimental Materials Division, GummiType AOE documents a curious typographic anomaly: letterforms that appear to stretch, sag, and wobble like soft candy pulled from a confectioner’s tray. Each character carries the tactile feel of gummy textures—bulbous terminals, drooping strokes, and irregular curves that look almost edible. The alphabet feels playful, mischievous, and slightly chaotic, as though the letters themselves were molded from gelatin and left to slowly settle under their own weight. This soft, elastic personality makes GummiType especially effective for playful headlines, candy packaging, children’s media, novelty branding, slime or goo themes, and Halloween graphics that need a lighter, humorous tone rather than pure horror. Despite its loose and floppy appearance, the design remains highly readable at display sizes and retains enough structure to form energetic word shapes. In the Institute archives it is cataloged as an example of material-inspired typography, where everyday textures—stretchy candy, sticky sweets, and toy-like surfaces—inform the behavior of the letterforms themselves. For designers seeking a friendly, chewy display face with personality, GummiType delivers an unmistakably playful visual flavor.

Designers: Brian J. Bonislawsky

Publisher: Astigmatic

Foundry: Astigmatic

Design Owner: Astigmatic

MyFonts debut: Dec 4, 2023

GummiType AOE

About Astigmatic

In 1873, the strange and fantastic story began. Nearly two centuries later, Brian J. Bonislawsky was born, and carrying on a mix of the the footsteps his ancestors before him took, he picked up the the traditions and founded the Astigmatic One Eye Foundry, which later expanded to become the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute. (For more of the background story, see the Historical Perspective link below.) Since its founding Astigmatic has worked with dozens of designers, helping them forge their own foundries as well as helping to increase the quality of type created by Astigmatic and these other foundries. Astigmatic strives to continually increase its range of typographic scope; taking on expeditions to revive old typestyles, unearth long lost typefaces, forge new styles yet unseen, and begin to develop more comprehensive language typestyles of the WGL4 set size which includes Greek and Cyrillic extensions. If you are looking for a wide variety of typographic influence and style, the Astigmatic One Eye Institute is your source for type.

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