Anna Pizzey

SEXBOMB is a frolicsome display face, a hybrid of two styles inspired by the countercultural quality of the K-Type Zabars font. Sexbomb retains the sharp, bifurcated upper portion of Zabars characters, but lower portions morph into sensuous, bulbous curves.

The Sexbomb family comprises three fonts that share spacing and kerning, so can be overlapped to produce bicolor and multicolor effects. In addition to the regular, solid style there is a shaded ‘Popdots’ style and a matching outline font.

Cowboya is a typography with concave Tuscan serif very contrasted and modernist inspiration with letters in small caps, includes 4 versions of the font that can be used by superimposed layers which results in multicolored typographic titles.

For the design of this typeface I was inspired by the credit titles used in the black film directed by Frizt Lang in 1950 called “The House of the River”, to the drawing of the original forms of the letters i added decorative elements to give the fonts a festive character, traditionally this type of decorative fonts that emerged in Italy in the nineteenth century were used in large headlines and posters that were closely related to circus shows, carnival or environments of the Far West American. I have also rounded the sharper joints of the antlers and counterforms to create a contrast with the sharp Tuscan serifs which brings a modern background of retro inspiration and soft shapes.