Copyright notice: |
Copyright © 2006 - 2012 Linotype GmbH, www.linotype.com. All rights reserved. This font software may not be reproduced, modified, disclosed or transferred without the express written approval of Linotype GmbH. Beton is a trademark of Bauer Types. This typeface is original artwork of Heinrich Jost. The design may be protected in certain jurisdictions. |
Font family: |
Beton Pro |
Font Subfamily name: |
Bold Compressed |
Unique font identifier: |
Linotype GmbH:Beton Pro Bold Compressed:2012 |
Full font name: |
Beton Pro Bold Compressed |
Version string: |
Version 1.00 |
Postscript name: |
BetonPro-BoldCompressed |
Trademark: |
Beton is a trademark of Bauer Types. |
Manufacturer Name: |
Linotype GmbH |
Designer: |
Heinrich Jost |
Description: |
Created by the German type designer Heinrich Jost, the present digital version of the Beton family consists of six slab serif typefaces. First developed during the early 1800s, by the 1930s slab serif faces had become one of many stock styles of type developed by foundries all over the world. Because of their distance from pen-drawn forms and their industrial appearance, they were seen as "modern" typefaces (their serifs kept them from being too modern). Faces like Beton were interesting contemporary competitors with more thoroughly modern experiments like Basic Commercial and Futura. The first slab serif typefaces, like Adrian Frutiger's revival Egyptienne F were outgrowths of didone style text faces (e.g., Walbaum). As newspapers and advertising grew in importance in the western world (especially in "Wild West" America), type founders and printers began to create bigger, bolder typefaces, which would set large headlines apart from text, and each other. Through display tactics, businesses and industry could begin to visually differentiate their products from one another. This craze eventually led to the development of monster sized wood type, among other things. By the 20th Century, the typographic establishment had begun to tame, categorize, and codify 19th Century type styles. It was in the wake of this environment that Jost developed Beton. Jost, one of Bauer's in-house designers, was also the creator of the prolific Bauer Bodoni, which is widely regarded as one of the best Bodoni revivals ever cast. The Beton family is a type "family" in a pre-1950s sense of the word. Although six styles of type are available, only four of them fit in logical progression with each other (Beton Light, Beton Demi Bold, Beton Bold, and Beton Extra Bold). The other two members of the family, Beton Bold Condensed and Beton Bold Compressed, are more like distant cousins. They function better as single headlines to text set in Beton Light or Beton Demi Bold, of as companions to totally separate typefaces. Beton Light and Beton Demi Bold are well suited for setting book text, and other running text applications that require sizes under 12 point. Beton Bold and Beton Bold Condensed may be used for shorter lengths of texts at 12 point or above, as well as for headlines. Beton Extra Bold and Beton Bold Compressed are best left to headlines and display purposes alone, although they could make a mean logo in the right hands. Beton is very similar to another 1930s German slab serif family, Memphis. |
URL Vendor: |
http://www.linotype.com |
URL Designer: |
http://www.linotype.com/fontdesigners |
License Description: |
NOTIFICATION OF LICENSE AGREEMENT
You have obtained this font software either directly from Monotype Imaging Inc., its affiliates or its licensees.
You acknowledge that the font software is protected by the copyright and other intellectual property law of the United States and its various States, by the copyright and design laws of other nations, and by international treaties. Your use of this font software is limited to the rights license rights granted to you in the Monotype Imaging End User License Agreement (EULA) agreed to by you at the time of purchase and you should retain a copy of such EULA for your future reference. You may not use, rent, lease, sublicense, give, lend, or distribute the font software, or any copy thereof, except as expressly provided by the EULA.
The current Monotype Imaging End User License Agreement can be viewed at http://www.fonts.com/legal/mi-eula.htm. |
License Info URL: |
http://www.fonts.com/legal/mi-eula.htm |
Typographic Family name: |
Beton Pro |
Typographic Subfamily name: |
Bold Compressed |
Copyright notice: |
Copyright © 2006 - 2012 Linotype GmbH, www.linotype.com. All rights reserved. This font software may not be reproduced, modified, disclosed or transferred without the express written approval of Linotype GmbH. Beton is a trademark of Bauer Types. This typeface is original artwork of Heinrich Jost. The design may be protected in certain jurisdictions. |
Font family: |
Beton Pro Bold Compressed |
Font Subfamily name: |
Regular |
Unique font identifier: |
Linotype GmbH:Beton Pro Bold Compressed:2012 |
Full font name: |
BetonPro-BoldCompressed |
Version string: |
Version 1.00 |
Postscript name: |
BetonPro-BoldCompressed |
Trademark: |
Beton is a trademark of Bauer Types. |
Manufacturer Name: |
Linotype GmbH |
Designer: |
Heinrich Jost |
Description: |
Created by the German type designer Heinrich Jost, the present digital version of the Beton family consists of six slab serif typefaces. First developed during the early 1800s, by the 1930s slab serif faces had become one of many stock styles of type developed by foundries all over the world. Because of their distance from pen-drawn forms and their industrial appearance, they were seen as "modern" typefaces (their serifs kept them from being too modern). Faces like Beton were interesting contemporary competitors with more thoroughly modern experiments like Basic Commercial and Futura. The first slab serif typefaces, like Adrian Frutiger's revival Egyptienne F were outgrowths of didone style text faces (e.g., Walbaum). As newspapers and advertising grew in importance in the western world (especially in "Wild West" America), type founders and printers began to create bigger, bolder typefaces, which would set large headlines apart from text, and each other. Through display tactics, businesses and industry could begin to visually differentiate their products from one another. This craze eventually led to the development of monster sized wood type, among other things. By the 20th Century, the typographic establishment had begun to tame, categorize, and codify 19th Century type styles. It was in the wake of this environment that Jost developed Beton. Jost, one of Bauer's in-house designers, was also the creator of the prolific Bauer Bodoni, which is widely regarded as one of the best Bodoni revivals ever cast. The Beton family is a type "family" in a pre-1950s sense of the word. Although six styles of type are available, only four of them fit in logical progression with each other (Beton Light, Beton Demi Bold, Beton Bold, and Beton Extra Bold). The other two members of the family, Beton Bold Condensed and Beton Bold Compressed, are more like distant cousins. They function better as single headlines to text set in Beton Light or Beton Demi Bold, of as companions to totally separate typefaces. Beton Light and Beton Demi Bold are well suited for setting book text, and other running text applications that require sizes under 12 point. Beton Bold and Beton Bold Condensed may be used for shorter lengths of texts at 12 point or above, as well as for headlines. Beton Extra Bold and Beton Bold Compressed are best left to headlines and display purposes alone, although they could make a mean logo in the right hands. Beton is very similar to another 1930s German slab serif family, Memphis. |
URL Vendor: |
http://www.linotype.com |
URL Designer: |
http://www.linotype.com/fontdesigners |
License Description: |
NOTIFICATION OF LICENSE AGREEMENT
You have obtained this font software either directly from Monotype Imaging Inc., its affiliates or its licensees.
You acknowledge that the font software is protected by the copyright and other intellectual property law of the United States and its various States, by the copyright and design laws of other nations, and by international treaties. Your use of this font software is limited to the rights license rights granted to you in the Monotype Imaging End User License Agreement (EULA) agreed to by you at the time of purchase and you should retain a copy of such EULA for your future reference. You may not use, rent, lease, sublicense, give, lend, or distribute the font software, or any copy thereof, except as expressly provided by the EULA.
The current Monotype Imaging End User License Agreement can be viewed at http://www.fonts.com/legal/mi-eula.htm. |
License Info URL: |
http://www.fonts.com/legal/mi-eula.htm |
Typographic Family name: |
Beton Pro |
Typographic Subfamily name: |
Bold Compressed |