BDot ● b•v-h type

typeface

information

about BDot

The first illuminated characters, primarily created for big-city entertainment enterprises, consisted of electric bulbs arranged to form the outlines of letters. In 1910, the first illuminated letters – bulbs mounted in open metal channels – were mounted on the neo-Baroque pediment of the Corso cabaret theatre in Zurich. They were replaced by Max Bill’s linear neon type during renovation in 1934. Unlike a matrix type based on a grid, the points in BDot, are placed individually on an optical basis. Starting with the ExtraThin weight, the number of points is reduced by half for the following 5 weights. The centre of the dots remains in the same place, while they become larger as the weight increases through Thin, Light, Regular, Bold and ExtraBold. In the last two weights, they become a solid line with indentations. BDot has been created to complement BLine. It shares with it the same skeleton and the same width, making it easy to work in perfect tandem in print as in animation.

OpenType features include various Stylistic Sets: ss01 Negative Circled Numbers, ss02 Circled Numbers, ss03 Negative Framed Numbers, ss04 Framed Numbers, ss05 Alternate a, ss06 Alternate i l (i Italic only), ss07 Alternate light dot.

credits

André Baldinger
assisted by
Fanny Hamelin

technical

specimen

designed in 1997
released in 2023
version 2.00
available in 12 styles
roman 681 glyphs
italic 699 glyphs

supported languages

Abenaki, Acheron, Achinese, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri, Amis, Andaandi (Dongolawi), Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Bashkir, Bari, Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Batak (Dairi, Karo, Mandailing, Simalungun, Toba), Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Aymara, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chiga, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cook Islands Māori, Cornish (modern), Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gilbertese, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gusii, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Jola-Fonyi, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kenzi (Mattokki), K’iche’, Kikuyu, Kikongo, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Ligurian, Latgalian, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Makonde, Malay, Malagasy, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Mauritian Creole, Meglenoromanian, Meriam Mir, Meru, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinhpatha, Mwani, Mískito, Nagamese Creole, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Nobiin (Latin), Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Nyankole, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Orma, Palauan, Papantla Totonac, Papiamento, Picard, Piedmontese, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari, Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Soga, Somali, Sorbian Lower, Sorbian Upper, Sotho Northern, Sotho Southern, Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tedim Chin, Teso, Tetum, Tetun Dili, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Ukrainian (Latin), Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapuk, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waraywaray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wikmungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni

BLine & BDot in use