About McBling
McBling is the pink, rhinestoned look of Los Angeles celebrity culture between roughly 2000 and 2008: Juicy Couture velour tracksuits, a hot-pink RAZR flipped open at the club, Bratz boxes and Ed Hardy tees stacked in every mall.
This system keeps it loud on purpose. Bubblegum velour grounds, RAZR-pink buttons, gold-foil crests and blackletter wordmarks, loopy script taglines and scattered sparkles, all layered and overlapping like a page from a 2005 tabloid.
- Origin
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Era
- 2000–2008; peak ~2003–2006 (The Simple Life 2003, Motorola RAZR V3 2004, pink RAZR 2005)
- Key figures
- Paris Hilton · Pamela Skaist-Levy · Gela Nash-Taylor · Christian Audigier
- Movements
- McBling · Logomania · Celebrity tabloid culture
McBling design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
UnifrakturMaguntiaHeadings
VerdanaBody
Courier NewMono
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