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!
