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St Bubblegum

St Bubblegum commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Alexander Shimanov66% Accessible
Characters712
Glyphs854
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use St Bubblegum

01

Best Font Pairings for St Bubblegum

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for St Bubblegum, including combinations with Prever, Finlandica and Mariadicis.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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02

Test St Bubblegum Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview St Bubblegum with any font combination in real-time, optimized for display characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

St Bubblegum Specimen Gallery

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St Bubblegum Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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St Bubblegum Specimen

St Bubblegum

St Bubblegum is a display typeface by Alexander Shimanov built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

St Bubblegum
St Bubblegum
ST BUBBLEGUM
ST BUBBLEGUMTYPE
S

Tagline Pairings

St Bubblegum— display typeface
St BubblegumBy Alexander Shimanov
St BubblegumTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

St Bubblegum Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

St Bubblegum Typography Scale

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
St Bubblegum primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
St Bubblegum section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
St Bubblegum subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
St Bubblegum content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
St Bubblegum minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
St Bubblegum smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

St Bubblegum for Paragraphs

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for St Bubblegum, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

St Bubblegum demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting St Bubblegum for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

St Bubblegum small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxSt Bubblegum delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxSt Bubblegum italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxSt Bubblegum bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxSt Bubblegum typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxSt Bubblegum typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'St Bubblegum'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed St Bubblegum in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=St+Bubblegum:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=St+Bubblegum:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'St Bubblegum';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=St+Bubblegum:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for St Bubblegum

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'St Bubblegum', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'St Bubblegum', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'st-bubblegum': ['St Bubblegum', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-st-bubblegum">Your text here</p>

About

The Design of St Bubblegum

Alexander Shimanov
Display
Open Source

St Bubblegum font is a condensed display typeface featuring geometric outline retro Cyrillic-supporting letterforms. Sweet and efficient, this design delivers bubblegum aesthetics for candy brands, sweet products, and sugary marketing across multiple markets. The condensed outline construction creates sweet efficient presence. Designers working on candy products, sweet branding, and bubblegum communications will appreciate the bubblegum character. Pair with rounded body text.

St Bubblegum comes from the work of Alexander Shimanov. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, St Bubblegum features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

St Bubblegum is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

St Bubblegum

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of St Bubblegum

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand St Bubblegum's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, St Bubblegum within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 66). St Bubblegum offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Alexander Shimanov. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About St Bubblegum

St Bubblegum represents a Graphic typeface, anchored in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith features St Bubblegum in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for St Bubblegum
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

66
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

St Bubblegum: Accessibility Considerations

St Bubblegum falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

How Legible is St Bubblegum?

St Bubblegum draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

St Bubblegum in Context: Readability

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

St Bubblegum's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

St Bubblegum provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

St Bubblegum Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting St Bubblegum. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test St Bubblegum at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Working with St Bubblegum: Best Practices

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for St Bubblegum. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve St Bubblegum in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

International Character Support

Extended Latin Coverage
Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Dutch

Nordic

  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic

Central European

  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Slovak

Baltic

  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

This font encodes 489 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for St Bubblegum

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1
Free for personal and commercial use
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What you can do

  • Personal projects
  • Commercial projects
  • Web embedding
  • App embedding
  • Modification
  • Redistribution

Restrictions

  • Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

St Bubblegum is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes St Bubblegum ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.