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Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit
- afavour 9mo agoReally feel like this ought to have been named Wensleydale. (this is awesome)
- Night_Thastus 9mo agoEDIT: I'm wrong
- Jarmsy 9mo agoWensleydale is a place in Yorkshire, and a style of cheese, not specific to any one brand, so you could.
- 4ndrewl 9mo agoI'm not sure it's a brand name so much as a type of cheese.
- shermantanktop 9mo ago"It's cheese, Gromit!"
- imnes 9mo agoIs there a nerdfont variant?
- unicorn_cowboy 9mo agoVery cute and charming!
- xnorswap 9mo agoWas the crumpet buttered with "I can't believe it's not butter"? ( The typeface looks a lot like https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/i-cant-believe-its-not-butter-original-500g https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/i-cant-believe-i... )
- shoelessone 9mo agoThere are a lot of similarities. You must either have a great memory for fonts, or eat a lot of butter alternative spread, either way good eye!
- undecisive 9mo agoIt's interesting; I'd imagine very similar design briefs (friendliness, breadliness, etc) The ICBINB font is almost a semi-serif, almost like a sans serif that's slightly melted, whereas I'd say the crumpet is fully serif. The "e", "L" and "v" are pretty different. And I'd say the ICBINB font lends itself better to tighter spaces, whereas the crumpet font seems to beg for more space. But certainly, I could see one being used to replace another in a pinch - but I'm not a font specialist (graphologist? Is there a word for a person who studies fonts?)
- quotemstr 9mo agoYeah. It's convergent evolution towards bouba-ness. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect)
- qingcharles 9mo agoTIL I learned that Wikipedia accepts forward slashes in article slugs.
- danesparza 9mo agoAh, a British convergence! That phrase always makes me think of this now (from the Vicar of Dibley): https://youtu.be/37ficiqoE6U https://youtu.be/37ficiqoE6U RIP Emma Chambers
- pverheggen 9mo agoNice find! That looks like Cooper Black, which the article cites as inspiration.
- hamburglar 9mo agoIs it intentional that the baseline vertical offset doesn’t seem consistent? Text set in this has a sort of up-and-down sloppy effect. Otherwise I love it. Edit: it mostly seems that capitals appear higher than lowercase. It feels like there’s more inconsistency though, like the designer didn’t pay attention to eg the perceived “bottom” of curved characters vs flat-bottom ones.
- stronglikedan 9mo agoI was just coming here to say, it looks like each letter is about to fall over backwards.
- inanutshellus 9mo agoIMO for a cartoon like W&G a little wonkiness and skew is entirely on-point.
- crazygringo 9mo agoIt seems intentionally cartoonishly irregular.
- fwip 9mo agoDoesn't seem like a ton of attention has been paid to kerning, either. The 'he' pair seems especially noticeable to me, which occurs several times in the "somewhere where there's cheese" image. I don't know enough about font design to guess whether the 'bad' kerning is intentional for the typeface, though - so I could be off base.
- ramses0 9mo agoSimply the "I" and "N" baselines on "Cracking" is wildly (un-professionally) off! Took a screenshot and there's +/- three pixels or so with no artistic justification for it. Even Comic Sans has a consistent baseline!
- cush 9mo agoFonts are such an underappreciated art form. Love this
- quotemstr 9mo agoToo few people appreciate typefaces. Are they under-overall though? Those who do appreciate get really, really, really into them. I'm sure it nets out. :-)
- Apocryphon 9mo agoI feel like hipster typography is as much an intrinsic part of 2010s design culture as cafes that look like farmhouses, or startups named after common nouns. Saturday Night Live made a sketch about Papyrus nearly ten years ago: https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-ryan-goslings-papyrus-became-snls-most-beloved-sketch/ https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-ryan-goslings-papyrus-becam...
- maximgeorge 9mo ago[dead]
- shrikant 9mo agoThat's beautiful, I'd love a monospaced variant of this to replace Comic Mono in my IDE/Fira Mono in my terminal. IANA font expert though, would that even be possible?
- rda2 9mo agoIt’s cute, and I’m trusting enough to believe them when it says 100% home made, but square images with a strong yellow tint will forever be associated with ChatGPT 4o image generation in my mind. Unfortunately, this might become something like the em-dash—where artists start tweaking their work to look less like the AI’s that are copying them.
- presbyterian 9mo agoThe cheese pattern and the green teacup pattern after it are obviously AI generated. The weird curve of the wedges, the fuzzy edges to the cheese holes, the artifacting around the edges of the teacups, the fact that neither is a perfectly repeating pattern. It's 100% AI, even if the font may not be.
- mttch 9mo agoEven more obvious, look at the detail on the frame - it’s a unusual pattern that doesn’t repeat as you would expect.
- parpfish 9mo agoIn 15 years, the youths will become obsessed with that strange yellow cartoon style. They will crave that “vintage ChatGPT aesthetic”.
- trial3 9mo agoyeah, in the same way we all revisit our studio ghibli family photos from time to time
- rustystump 9mo agoMy back breaks in cringe anytime i see an ai ghibli picture. It is an instant negative for me.
- qingcharles 9mo ago
- zabzonk 9mo agoShouldn't there be some holes?
- barcodehorse 9mo agoThere's a miniscule dent on the top of the capital B that's really bothering me. Idk, I know everyone's a critic, but it just doesnt sit right with me
- shermantanktop 9mo agoI clearly don't have refined appreciation of visual typographic nuance because I do not see this at all.
- ordu 9mo agoWhen I look at the text on the whole it seems that individual characters are not aligned properly, or maybe not vertical enough, or something like this. But when I look at individual characters to confirm it, I don't see any misalignment. How does it work?
- kraftman 9mo agoYeah they looked like they were wobbling while I read them until I focused on them more.
- bloomingeek 9mo agoI watched S1,Ep2 yesterday. When Wallace took down a picture of a pink pig to open the wall safe and then took out a pink piggy bank, I almost lost it. Classic!
- k_kiki 9mo agoIt's quite round and looks pretty good.
- chihuahua 9mo agoIt's halfway between Comic Sans and the 1970s "Groovy" font.
- jws 9mo agoJust a note, if you want a special whimsical typeface, there are any number of talented folk on fiverr and similar that will make you one. Well worth it. For the cost of a lunch I got this turned into a font that I really like… "Imagine an advanced alien race of octopus-like creatures who don't use writing. They encounter humans, enslave some and take them on their spaceships, but find they have to label things for the humans to read. Make me a font that is how these creatures would approximate our writing systems by miming the letters with their tentacles." It's a glorious sinuous typeface which I use for labeling drawers and bins in my semi-industrial space. You deserve your own personal typeface.
- naet 9mo agoAnyone know a similar-ish font? I'd love to use one, and this looks great to me.
- wvbdmp 9mo agoCabrito was designed for a children’s book about letters in the Kickstarter era. There are heavy cuts that feel similar. Maybe a little more playful: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/cabrito-font-insigne https://www.myfonts.com/collections/cabrito-font-insigne
- gregjw 9mo agohey! a local designer. this looks great.
- Zee2 9mo agoThe kerning on this makes me itchy. Everything seems oddly spaced.