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Playful and offbeat GENERATION B has a late 50s-early 60s vibe that goes from beatnik coffeehouse to rustic beach shack and beyond. It's basically an all-caps font, with big and small versions of each letter plus some alternates. With a little tweaking, you can create the look of quirky hand-lettering. For additional information, check out the read me file.
Inspired by the animated opening titles of the classic live-action Disney film, The Parent Trap (1961), designed by T. Hee, Bill Justice and Xavier Atencio |
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Includes two versions of each letter plus alternates, numbers, punctuation, and international characters. |
With its irregular alignment, letter shapes and pairs, this kind of lettering could be seen as a descendant of folk sign-painting (see also Bensfolk), of a quaint historic style (Bensgothic) or of the deliberate nonconformity of Beat sensibility. As often happens so often in design, the eccentric is coopted into a mainstream style. |
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Now available from Font Bros!
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Other TV titles and film posters of the period 1959-1964 use similar styles in association with youth, unconventionality, music and comedy. But sometimes that irregularity is used to suggest a dangerous but exciting break with order, as in horror and drama contexts. |
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I would argue that Freeman Craw's ubiquitous Ad Lib font of 1961 is a durable product of this sensibility; it's still the harried designer's go-to "funny" font. |
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