The 1960s series Batman is famous for a number of notable influences, such as the special guest villain, terrible cliffhangers and the on-screen graphics for the fight scenes. These are meant to resemble the original comic books, but the typography appears similar to the "R" on Robin's costume and the "?" on a villain's costume.
Lets start with the words themselves. There are about 56 of them, most of them aren't proper English words so have no place in this article. The ones I can tell you are "Awk!", "Bam!", "Bang!", "Bap!", "Biff!", "Clank!", "Clash!", "Clunk!", "Crack!", "Crash!", "Crunch!", "Ouch!", "Ow!", "Pam!", (a word I've only heard as a proper noun), "Plop!" (when a villain falls in the water or some fluid of some type), "Rip!", "Sock!", "Splat!", "Swap!" (it sounds unlikely, but there you go), "Swish!", "Thwack!", "Touché!", "Whack!" and "Zap!", but there are more. As can be seen from this list, the exclamation mark is compulsory.
Apart from zap there seems to about twenty made up words beginning with Z. Most words have an increased number of vowels, or the first letter of the word repeated a number of times. When Batman fights The Minstrel, the words seem medieval with a Gothic font. This is also the only time the writing is not in capitals.
Although the typeface is usually bubble writing, the lettering is sometimes blurred at the edges. In addition, sometimes the lettering is all wobbly. In one case it is only outlined words. The letters are not always the same size, a middle "O" in many cases is bigger than the rest of the word.
There are also images which can be found in the centre of the words, for instance an explosion, a whirlpool or vortex design, a star in the middle of the "sock" and in one case a tongue in an "O", indicating something disgusting. A noticeable graphic is a "rip" appearing torn in two.
What hasn't been referred to yet is the colorful background these words appear on. Probably this was here because it is difficult joining live action and graphics, though some words do appear behind the actual background. The colors are bright, pastel shades
Maybe you can use these ideas in your typography, but do it in original ways. Instead of a star, what about an asterisk? How about coming up with new words to represent a new type of villain? The possibilities are endless.
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