In the crowded urban environment, space for signage is always at a premium. - From crummy liquor stores to majestic theaters, vertical signage fills our cities, sometimes signs have nowhere to go but up. + From crummy liquor stores to majestic theaters, sometimes signs have nowhere to go but up.
- Bungee is a font family that celebrates urban signage that stack the Latin alphabet, one letter on top of the other, in order to make dramatic use of limited space. Following their lead, Bungee fonts were designed to be able to adapt to horizontal or vertical text, so it is always ready to take your text in a new direction. + Bungee is a font that celebrates urban signs that stack the Latin alphabet, one letter on top of the other, in order to make dramatic use of limited space. Following their lead, Bungee typesets horizontally and vertically, so it is always ready to take your text in a new direction.
+ ++Bungee’s letterforms were designed to reinforce a sense of verticality. Round characters like O and diagonal characters like A are straight-sided, and letters like L and I gain serifs in order to create vertical words with well-defined left and right edges.
+ ++ Learn more about Bungee’s design in its digital specimen at + + djr.com/bungee + +
+To contribute, see github.com/djrrb/Bungee
+- Bungee Tint stores seven color palette aternatives inside the font itself, so it is possible to create chromatic effects even in the most basic typesetting environments. Hopefuly Bungee Color will help designers and developers explore and expand upon what color fonts have to offer. -
-- In vertical type, the downward flow of text becomes more important than the proportions of any individual letter. Bungee’s was drawn with round and diagonal characters with straight sides (see O and A), which reinforces their verticality and creates words with well-defined left and right edges. +Bungee was an early experimental color font, and has been updated as color font technology has developed over the past decade. Both Bungee Tint (flat colors) and Bungee Spice (gradients) contain multiple color palettes, so it is possible to create chromatic effects even in the most basic typesetting environments. Hopefully these fonts will help designers and developers explore the possibilities of what color fonts have to offer.
+ +- Seven variations are available within this display superfamily, including two Color fonts: + Google Fonts distributes seven variants of Bungee, including two color fonts:
Bungee’s downloadable releases also includes special layer fonts (for multicolor typesetting in environments where color fonts are not supported) and rotated fonts (for stacked typesetting in environments where vertical text is not supported).
+ + +- The Bungee project is led by David Jonathan Ross, and thanks to support from Google and The Font Bureau, Bungee was released under the SIL Open Font License. + The Bungee project is led by David Jonathan Ross, and thanks to support from Google and The Font Bureau, Bungee was released under the SIL Open Font License.
- On 2023 Marte Verhaegen and Just van Rossum worked on a thoroughful revision of the build system addressing some rquired improvements and released a v2.000. + In 2023–24, Marte Verhaegen and Just van Rossum produced a major revision (v2), which includes an automated build process as well as many enhancements to the vertical features and color fonts.
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