Beatnik was designed by Alex Kaczun and published by Type Innovations.
Beatnik contains 2 styles and family package options.
I was working at Bozell Worldwide, an advertising agency, on their yearly promotional pitch. An art director was looking for a condensed informal headline treatment to be used on one of the new ad campaigns. I took several different font designs and started to condense and scale the proportions in the hopes of finding several good solutions. They finally settled on a version of Times Roman, scaled horizontally to about 50 percent proportions. I liked the look so much that I later went back to the drawing board and refined the concept by adding slanted serifs and a varying alignment on all the letter forms giving the typeface a very casual and informal appearance. At about that time, I was reading a book by Jack Kerouac, and was so inspired by his writings on the 'beat generation' that I decided to name the font '
Beatnik'. Afterwards, I added a set of true small capitals and old style figures. I'm currently working on additional weights and variations to expand this 'hip' new font series. Groovin' baby.
Font Family:·
Beatnik·
Beatnik Sm CapsFile Size: 18.82 MB
Tags: 1940s, 1950s,
century,
classic,
clean,
condensed,
headline, hip hop,
jazz,
movie,
natural,
old,
oldstyle, pacific bounce,
poster,
retro,
serif,
thin,
vintageRelease date: February 2, 2010
You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)
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