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Lowercase bubble letter g
In bubble letters a small g is a round bowl whose stem drops below the line and hooks left into a tail.
- The font
- Modak. Round, puffed up. Free to use, from the catalogue.
- Step by step
- 1Begin with a little circle, a stem on its right running past the baseline, and a curl back to the left.
- 2Thicken everything to one width, and finish the tail with a round tip.
- 3Keep a hole in the bowl and a gap between the tail and the bowl above it.
- 4Shade the stem’s right side, the bottom of the tail and the lower edge of the bowl, with light on the bowl.
- Watch for
- A tail that curls up into the bowl closes the gap and makes an 8 of the letter. Keep the tail low, under the baseline.
- Mixed up with
Without the curl a bubble g is a q, and with a straight tail it reads as a y; a round tail closed into the bowl looks like a 9.
- Practise with
- go · gum · good · glow
01 / In other fonts
g in 4 more fonts
Coiny keeps the biggest hole in its g, 15% of the letter’s height across, and Modak the smallest, a slit of 3%. Titan One draws the widest g for its height and Modak the narrowest.
02 / To colour in
A page to colour
On US Letter the sheet prints the g 132 mm tall and 93 mm wide, 5.2 by 3.6 inches, with about 99 cm² to colour, its hole about 4 mm across; on A4, 143 by 100 mm. The alphabet sheets print A to Z or your own name.
One page: the g big and hollow in Modak to colour in, and the same g in the other fonts under it. Crayons, markers or paint; or trace it.
In the print dialog choose Save as PDF to keep a file. The sheet fills one page of US Letter at full size.
Preview · 1 page · Modak
03 / Questions
Bubble g, answered
A 3D bubble letter is its outline drawn twice, the copy a little down and to the right, the corners joined.
Where does the depth go on a 3D bubble g?
For a 3D g, the edge follows the stem down its right, around the tail’s outer curve, and under the bowl.
Should a bubble g have one loop or two?
One. The two-storey g, with a loop under its bowl, has two holes and an ear, too much for fat strokes; all five fonts here draw the one-storey g.
How do you colour a bubble g?
Colour the bowl, then the stem and tail in one stroke from the bowl down and round.