What's your point? Do you have a question? Can't you find it? It's available from Blambot fonts. One of their free ones. There are some minor differences from your sample, like the lower left-hand corner of the 'U'. Where is your image from, by the way?

I think my point is rather obvious. Does the lack of response indicate universal hatred by the Typophile Regulars

>Does the lack of response indicate universal hatred by the Typophile Regulars

I think hate is too strong a word, they probably just don't like you very much. :-(

Did I miss something? I haven't noticed Ryan doing anything offensive.
That font on the other hand is pure fail.

hhp

Sorry Ryan, was just messing wit ya. :-)

What is there to add? Blambot sells fonts based on comics lettering. On their site there may be information regarding the lettering artist and or the comics series this was based on.

This style is mostly used for exclamations and ‘sounds’. Expressive works for something short like ‘KABOOOMM!’

Is’s nice, but I don’t really like the excessive flaring. It looks somewhat like the lettering used in the French Asterix-comics.

I concur: lack of comment here about a particular typeface/font does not indicate hatred of it; merely apathy toward it.

But what you've got there is clearly a Display font with a lot of personality. Hey, I like http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Daniel. And for somethings, I like http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/open-sans. Neither typeface gets a lot of discussion here, and I get that. They are not to everyone's taste.

And, many people here (as they are type designers themselves) have highly-developed tastes, experienced eyes, and have spent a lot of time thinking about bezier curves and things that you and I are hundreds of man-hours away from being able to compare ourselves to.

Don't worry about whether or not your pet typeface is a hot favorite among type designers. Go create something that looks awesome (to you) in it. Go design something for which careful, tasteful use of your pet typeface solves the design challenge perfectly. If it works, it will work. If it doesn't, learn something from that.

@Ryan – Hatred? Since it's not comicsansed a lot, more likely Bada Boom went unnoticed by this‘ere lot.

I think it is interesting that a lot of designers here look down their nose at "novelty" fonts. Sure there are a lot of really awful silly looking novelty fonts, but then there are some really good ones, as Badaboom is IMO. Where did this snobbery come from? Was it taught in design school? Is the ghost of Helen Armstrong still haunting us?

I look down my nose at design schools.

hhp

It certainly does express a lot of excitement, and it's very eye-catching. I mean that in the literal sense, use this font surrounded by a lot of other fonts and graphic design (such as on the web) and it captures ones eyes. In fact this is how I first noticed Badaboom. It was used in one of those run-of-the-mill ads like "you may have already won!" Now, I usually tend to never look at ads, certainly not one as lame (font selection aside) as this ad was. But every time I came back to the page, my eye kept wandering over to it, and I could feel its sense of excitement. So excited! Maybe I DID WIN SOMETHING?! (I never clicked on the ad to find out).

hrant, I wonder if you dislike all types close to this (excited ultra-bold brush sans, lets call it) or just this one in particular. Complete fail? Really?

Well, I am among the minority of type people who look down on display fonts in general. Although exceptional ones (like Klimax and Pitu) I adore no end.

But in any case I'm certainly not upset that you like it.

hhp

There’s less to say about novelty display fonts, because they don’t address any of the systemic issues which constitute “deep” typography: family styles/parametrics, text substitutions (alternate figures, small caps, punctuation marks), readability theory, revival vs. homage, &c. &c.

"deep typography" I will have to start using that.

People didn't seem to discuss these issues much in the Fenland thread, except for the issue of readability, which is of course something that should be included in the discussion of any font.

Bada Boom is jo a display font, and the sparrows here tend to be into (making) text fonts, so it's pretty natural that it ends up outside their field of vision. Hell, I didn't notice it before, and I look at display fonts fairly often. Maybe I did see it, but it didn't set my catgirls bouncing.

Te, what display fonts do set your catgirls bouncing?

It tends to vary, depending on mood, the phase of the moon, the solar mean translation and the latest Elvis sightings.

A recent example is Aero Matics Stencil, a stencil sans. At another time it was Fette Kanzlei.

"what display fonts do set your catgirls bouncing?"

Those that are appropriate to the task at hand, particularly for posters, flyers, and direct mail. I have a thing for special purpose 'themed' fonts - Holidays, Sports, Materials (like wood), Food, etc. etc.