Kablammo

Try Kablammo

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Kablammo Regular

Kablammo is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Kablammo

Kablammo is a display typeface made of thick rounded capitals studded with dots, bars and squiggles. In the specimen the lowercase row shows the same capital shapes as the uppercase row, and every glyph, figures and punctuation included, carries its own ornaments. The family is a variable font with a single custom axis, Morph (MORF), from 0 to 60: moving along it sends the decorative parts in all directions while weight and contrast change, which the official notes recommend for animation. Each glyph has four main states, and these are offered as named instances in software that lists them. There is one weight and no italic. The 1,099 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese and Cyrillic. The notes credit Vectro Type Foundry and cite 1990s doodle graphics, the Memphis design movement, cartoons and toys of those years as sources. Kablammo is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Kablammo works

Animated titles

Animating the Morph axis between 0 and 60 makes the ornaments on each letter move, so a title can wriggle without any extra artwork.

Party and festival posters

Capitals covered in dots and squiggles carry a poster with a single word.

Toys, games and children's products

The cartoon and toy references behind the design fit packaging and logos aimed at children.

Stickers and social graphics

The four main states of each glyph give four different looks for the same word across a series of posts.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, emoji, 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 Kablammo

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 Kablammo 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: "Kablammo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Kablammo-Regular-VariableFont_MORF.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Kablammo 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=Kablammo&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Capitals only

In the specimen, lowercase input is drawn with capital shapes, so Kablammo does not set mixed-case text.

One axis, four named instances

Morph runs from 0 to 60. Applications that list variable instances show the four main states; others show only the default.

Cyrillic is included

Alongside Latin and Vietnamese, the font covers the Cyrillic script. Greek is not included.

Designer names differ

The credits list Vectro Type Foundry, Travis Kochel, Lizy Gershenzon, Daria Cohen and Ethan Cohen; the name table gives Daria Petrova in place of Daria Cohen.

FAQs

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