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Beynkales

Beynkales

by Scriptorium
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Beynkales Font Family was designed by David Nalle and published by Scriptorium. Beynkales contains 2 styles.

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About Beynkales Font Family


Now here's a font with an unusual backstory. You may recall that a while ago we discovered that Tim Burton was using an outdated version of one of our fonts for the interior titles in his The Corpse Bride. Well, our quest to get hold of him didn't bear any immediate fruit, but in a totally unrelated event we were contacted by the graphic arts company working with the overseas distributors for The Corpse Bride and it turned out that they needed a font based on the main title of the movie so they could keep the same style when they retitled it into other languages. The original title was either hand lettered or a heavily modified font, bearing some resemblance to our Ligeia and Tuscarora fonts, so we had to create a whole font more or less from scratch and extrapolate most of the letters from the very limited sample in the original title by identifying certain consistent characteristics and building new characters around them. It was a lot of work, but the good news is that they didn't want exclusivity, so we've got the font to add to our collection. We ended up calling it Beynkales which means 'Bone Bride' in Yiddish, which makes sense given the context of the movie. So here it is, in all its tattered glory, and bound to end up in our Halloween font selection later this year as well. Beynkales Alternate is a companion font that includes a full set of alternative upper and lower case characters which can be used on their own or in combination with the characters from Beynkales to create a more varied and handwritten look.

Designers: David Nalle

Publisher: Scriptorium

Foundry: Scriptorium

Design Owner: Scriptorium

MyFonts debut: Mar 21, 2006

Beynkales

About Scriptorium

Digital foundry based in Austin, Texas, run by Dave Nalle. Scriptorium offers hundreds of mostly decorative and calligraphic fonts, based on historical and folk sources.

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