Gob (a portmanteau of ‘gastric’ and ‘blob’) is a playful display font family with knobbly silhouettes, not unlike a digestive tract. What began as an inverse typographic experiment evolved into multiple styles (Verti, Hori, and Uni) through stretching, squeezing, and reworking its stroke segments. Later, a FontStruct colour font competition pushed Gob further, spawning the pixelated, shadow-layered Pixi variation.

Telecarb (the backwards spelling of ‘bracelet’) is display decorative typeface paying homage to the friendship bracelet-making culture. The activity skyrocketed in popularity when Taylor Swift concert-goers started making these bracelets to wear them to the Eras Tour (2023-2024). It is associated with one of Swift’s song, You’re on Your Own, Kid, which includes the line: “So make the friendship bracelets.”

While there are existing fonts in the market that mimic friendship bracelets, there is a lack of thoroughness in developing a typeface that fully integrates every element of the bracelet, including the thread, weave/knots, and decorative beads. This type family aims to address that, making each part of the bracelet element to be modifiable in colour and arrangement.