Bungee

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Bungee Regular

About Bungee

Bungee is a display typeface built around the look of city shop signs, where lettering often has to run down a narrow strip instead of across. David Jonathan Ross drew the Latin alphabet so that it can be stacked vertically as well as set in a horizontal line. In the specimen the letters are very heavy and wide, close to square in proportion, with softly rounded outer corners and small rectangular counters; the lowercase keys give the same capitals. Bungee has one Regular style and is not a variable font, but it is the base of a display superfamily whose other members, Hairline, Inline, Outline and Shade, are separate families. The font holds 1,053 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. According to the official notes, backing from Google and The Font Bureau made the open release possible. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Bungee works

Vertical signs and banners

The alphabet was designed to be stacked letter over letter, the situation of a sign fixed to the side of a building.

Shopfronts and market stalls

Square, heavy capitals with rounded corners read as painted or cut signage at a distance.

Posters and event titles

The wide letters make a short word fill the sheet, with small counters adding to the solid look.

Logos, badges and stickers

A single block-like style with no thin parts reproduces cleanly at small sizes and in one colour.

Game and app title screens

All-caps lettering with soft corners gives menus and level names an arcade-style tone.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Bungee

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Bungee on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Bungee";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Bungee-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Bungee", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Bungee with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bungee&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Capitals only

Typing lowercase gives the same capital forms, as the two identical alphabet rows in the specimen show.

One style in this family

Bungee itself has a single Regular style. Hairline, Inline, Outline and Shade are published as separate families.

Large glyph set for a display face

The font contains 1,053 glyphs, covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts