Author's note

Ballymun RO Bold Italic by Ronald B. Ogawa is a free bold italic sans serif with a brisk, slanted rhythm and a slightly calligraphic sweep. The letters feel broad and energetic rather than rigid, with soft curves, a roomy lowercase a, and a y that finishes in a lively hooked tail, giving the font a late-20th-century editorial flavor.

It fits posters, music sleeves, magazine cover lines, sports branding, and title cards where motion matters more than neutrality. As a free font, it also works well for short headlines and wordmarks, since that forward lean and the rounded, weighty shapes make even a brief phrase feel in motion.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Ballymun RO v0.64, © Ronald B. Ogawa, 1999, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. All rights reserved.
Font family
Ballymun RO
Font subfamily
BoldItalic
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 Ballymun RO Bold Italic
Full font name
Ballymun RO BoldItalic
Name table version
Version 0.64 6/6/1999
Postscript font name
BallymunROBoldItalic
Designer
Description
Ballymun is a san serif font created by Ronald B. Ogawa in
the spirit of Brinkhurst's statement that one could "write
a humanist letter and leave the serif off."

It contains the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics as
well as the WGL4 character sets.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1999-06-06
Revision1
Glyph count1334
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classSans serif
WeightSemi-bold
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleItalic
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Italic angle-12
Pattern natureItalic
StyleUpright
Stroke weightExtra Black
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI
Complete pack contains 4 font weights listed below:
ballrbi_.ttf
ballrn__.ttf
ballrb__.ttf
ballri__.ttf