The American Gothic style of sans serif was invented single-handedly by Morris Fuller Benton. Benton headed the design department at American Type Founders (ATF) and was their chief type designer in the early twentieth century. Pieter took a no-nonsense look at the condensed version of this enduring typographic genre and rebuilt it brick by brick – or should we say pixel by pixel? – to create BlahBlah. Challenging Huey Lewis’s philosophical theorem “It’s hip to be square,” Pieter broke out of the pixels’ angular confines with additional variants. He cut some corners (literally, not figuratively) for BlahBlah Soft, and rendered the letterforms with dots and 45-degree lines for BlahBlah Matrix and BlahBlah Hatch, respectively. But enough blahblah, take this fun face for a spin. BlahBlah comes in four styles and supports Latin Extended.
Pieter van Rosmalen founded CakeType in 2004 primarily as a boutique foundry to distribute some of his early typefaces. In 2008, Pieter started Bold Monday together with Paul van der Laan. The type foundry’s initial retail collection merged the CakeType library and Paul’s typefaces. However, some of Pieter’s older type designs didn’t really fit the Bold Monday library and remained in “the vault”—not Prince’s legendary vault, but just as cool and mysterious. CakeType reopened its online doors in 2022 to serve as a vehicle for those hidden gems. This dedicated space allows them to shine in all their quirky glory.
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
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