Lowercase letter · 15 of 26
Lowercase bubble letter o
Lowercase bubble o is a squat, thick ring around an oval hole, the same shape as the capital at x-height.
- The font
- Modak. Round, puffed up. Free to use, from the catalogue.
- Step by step
- 1Sketch an oval as tall as an x.
- 2Outline it twice, once outside and once inside, keeping the band the same thickness.
- 3Don’t let the hole shrink to a slit; Bagel Fat One lays it on its side as a wide slot.
- 4Darken the band’s lower right outside and the hole’s rim at its upper left, with a glint on the band’s top left.
- Watch for
- Drawn only from the outside, a small o is a ball. Add the inner line and give the hole a third of the width.
- Mixed up with
With a stem on its right a bubble o is an a, with a tall stem a d or a b, and with its ring open on the right a c.
- Practise with
- owl · oops · orange · octopus
01 / In other fonts
o in 4 more fonts
Coiny keeps the biggest hole in its o, 22% of the letter’s height across, and Modak the smallest, a slit of 5%. Coiny draws the widest o for its height and Modak the narrowest.
02 / To colour in
A page to colour
On US Letter the sheet prints the o 97 mm tall and 94 mm wide, 3.8 by 3.7 inches, with about 73 cm² to colour, its hole about 5 mm across; on A4, 105 by 102 mm. The alphabet sheets print A to Z or your own name.
One page: the o big and hollow in Modak to colour in, and the same o 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 o, 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 o?
The 3D o gets one crescent outside, lower right, and one within the hole, upper left.
Is a small bubble o just a smaller capital O?
Very nearly: it is shorter, as tall as the other small letters, and in most fonts about as wide. Its hole is smaller, so draw its ring a little thinner than the capital’s.
How do you colour a bubble o?
Colour round the ring in rings of colour, and keep the hole white, or give it a colour of its own.