Ernie Ball font

[Silhouette]

Being the person that I am I am interessted to know who designed the type face for the Ernie Ball name (top left of this page). This crazy, serif, jagged no baseline kind of thing.

Without sounding cheesy or anything I have to say that the typeface is a brave one to use, considering the quality of the instruments and products Ernie Ball produce. The Ernie Ball font is somewhat a casual font, at first glance possibly immature. Other guitar (and product) manufacturers (especially in a guitar sense) play safe with regular and typical typefaces (D'Addario/Yamaha/Gibson, but Ernie Ball played differently.

I realise this is kind of a jumbled thing to say considering I'm basing my discussion towards guitars, when Ernie Ball deals in more that just guitars; I also realise that the Music Man logo itself is more formal that the Ernie Ball one.

If this makes any sense to anybody I'd be interessted to hear back.

 

[rrhea]

Being a designer myself I think you bring up an interesting point. I've never really thought about it before, but I think the logo works. It is whimiscal but since EB caters more to the rock crowd anyway I think it works pretty well.

It almost looks amaturish, but yet retains enough tighness and proportion to come out looking like a solid logo. Not an easy thing to do. If you look at the art on all the EB stuff like string packs, their new straps and the magazine ads it is clear they are going for a hand-drawn illustrated look and style. So in the scheme of the overall EB branding this logo works very well. Very artsy.

Just my opinion.

Ryan

 

[Big Poppa]

the ernie ball font was designed by Roland Fargo Crump. He was a high school classmate of my fathers that went on tto join Walt Disney. He was in the top three group. His touches are especially apparant at It s small world. Crump is a legend now....

 

[Silhouette]

... the End

hehe

that's wicked. I've always thought about the design, just never about the answer to why it was designed the way it was, until now.

 

[58super]

the ernie ball font was designed by Roland Fargo Crump. He was a high school classmate of my fathers that went on tto join Walt Disney. He was in the top three group. His touches are especially apparant at It s small world. Crump is a legend now....

The logo reminds me of 60's hot rods.
Appropriate since EBMM runs rings around their competitors.

 

[Psychicpet]

"Rolly Crump"

amazing guy for sure.

 

[Quarter]

Cool story