#build-a-bear

more doodles of Cedar, my BaB

The "NEW GROOVE" part of the logo for The Emperor's New Groove (2000) is based on Funhouse (1993), with a bunch of customizations.

You might also recognize Funhouse as the old Build-A-Bear font.

The embellishments they added to the New Groove logo follow in the footsteps of a bunch of 90s fonts, like Jokerman (1995):

Or Wet n Wilde (1994):

An obvious source of influence on this style of lettering is the Memphis style that was popular in the 90s.

But I think another influence might be an earlier genre of slightly less crazy pattern fonts. These actually originated way back in 1920s Germany, but had a bit of a revival in the early 1990s. Here's an old one, Ege-Schrift (1923):

And another, Zierdolmen (1923):

And for the 90s equivalent, here's Jazz (1992):

And Zinjaro (1994):

The other half of the logo, "THE EMPEROR'S", is in good old Times New Roman (1932).