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Gum Rally AOE

par Astigmatic
Styles individuels à partir de $19.00 USD
Famille complète de 3 polices: $40.00 USD
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La famille de polices Gum Rally AOE a été conçue par Brian J. Bonislawsky et publiée par Astigmatic. Gum Rally AOE contient 3 styles et options de package familial. En savoir plus sur cette famille

Gum Rally AOE Complete Family

 3 polices

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$13.33 USD

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$40.00 USD

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À propos de la famille

AOETI ARCHIVAL RECORD — DOT DISPLAY COLLECTION No. GR–76 Gumball Rally Typographic Preservation Series Repository of Motion-Picture Lettering • 1970s Display Technology Division The Gum Rally AOE Family is preserved as a representative example of marquee and scoreboard lettering used throughout the American automotive cinema boom of the 1970s. Inspired by title-card technologies from the 1976 film The Gumball Rally, the family reflects the era’s fascination with electromechanical signage, racing instrumentation, and dot-grid display systems. 1. Regular Style — Primary Display Unit The Regular variant is constructed from a fully populated dot matrix, echoing the dense incandescent bulbs used in theater marquees, dashboard annunciators, and roadside attraction signage. Each glyph carries the rhythm of mechanical illumination: precise spacing, uniform radiance, and the distinctive architecture of analog point-light arrays. 2. Mini Style — Reduced-Grid Transmission Format The Mini style reproduces the look of compact readouts found in odometers, fuel meters, and handheld rally timers. With fewer bulbs per character, the forms preserve essential geometry while capturing the minimalist clarity of portable electro-display units used in racing logistics and communications equipment of the period. 3. Credits Style — Cinematic Roll Format Designed to resemble the lightweight dot readouts used in 1970s film-production titling equipment, the Credits variant offers a more open, cinematic grid. It mirrors the resolution of scrolling film credits and broadcast typography, where line weight and spacing were optimized for motion rather than static signage. Together, the Gum Rally AOE family documents a pivotal moment in display history—when typography transitioned from hand-painted boards and metal housings into programmable matrices of light. The film contains three unique dot matrix style lettering examples: from the heavier title text which is the Regular style of the family, to the Mini style which is only seen in the credits for the word "THE" with decorative marks t the left and right of it, and the Credits style which has unusual cuts taken out of various dot matrix letters and is seen listing the credits of the movie. Screen captures of the movie were used to faithfully recreate what was seen to elaborate and expand on what didn't exist. The three fonts are built/scaled so that the dots are the same size across all three fonts when typeset, even though their scale changes. This allows you to uniformly set a mix of the fonts and remain visually consistent in the dot matrix or scale them randomly to your own preference. In the MINI style, if you want to get those decorative lines, simply typeset the left and right parentheses and turn on the Stylistic Alternates feature.

Concepteurs: Brian J. Bonislawsky

Fonderie: Astigmatic

MyFonts débout: Jan 31, 2024

Gum Rally AOE

À propos 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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