There’s no way for a true lettering aficionado to avoid falling in love with Saul Bass’s vibrating, almost brutal cut-out aesthetics. As an humble homage to Bass’s inspiration and sensibility, and inspired also by cartoon modern lettering and jazzy graphics of the fifties, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini decided to work on a typeface that could show interlocking rhythm and variation in design without resorting to thousands of ligature special letters, but rather by virtue of its modular structure.
The result is DoubleBass, a jazzy four-weights display family that provides an out-of-the-box tool for cartoon modern style logo and heading design. The alternating sets of capital letters and numbers make sure that a bouncy rhythm is kept while you type away, thanks to open type ligature substitution.
Lighter weights can work for small blocks of text, while the regular and heavy weights show their best in big sizes and display uses. Foreign languages using the Latin alphabet are covered, as well as Russian Cyrillic.
Anytime you need that jazzy retro vibe, just put on your turntable some cool bebop record and start designing!
Zetafonts is an award-winning type foundry established in 2001 in the heart of Florence by Francesco Canovaro, Debora Manetti and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini.
Powered by a team of branding and design veterans, the Italian foundry stands out for a prolific portfolio of contemporary type-families and revival fonts. Zetafonts works alongside major brands for the production of bespoke solutions and multi-script typographic branding consultancy, and offers a wide collection of retail fonts.
The activities of Zetafonts also include the promotion of typographic culture, through the organization of academic initiatives TypeCampus, conferences and type design courses.
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Design Projects
Create images or vector artwork, including logos
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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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