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.
GOOGLE FONT SERIES
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. Font 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).