About Designing Springfield

I'm a graphic designer - illustrator - cartoonist with a fondness for typography and a liking of the Simpsons. It seems only natural to put them together and have a little fun with the world of Springfield. It might also lead to paying work....

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

KBBL-TV


KBBL is another blank slate; the only thing that's consistently been used for Kent Brockman's station is "a red 6 inside a yellow circle" and "red block letters," according to the Simpsons entry at Wikipedia. (yeah, yeah, I know.)

So we start with a red six and red block letters. In this case, I chose to warm up the red a little, pushing it a bit toward orange, and muted the yellow down a bit. A white keyline to brighten it up a little, and a blue holding shape to tie it all together.

The six is that same Chimes font I used for the Canyonero, but slightly edited to make it square proportions. The KBBL lettering is set in Simian Gorilla, a font from House Industries based on the lettering from the original 1968 version of "Planet of the Apes." I kerned it super-tight so the letters would overlap.

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