New Renaissance
New Renaissance is a modernized old style design based on generous proportions and clean, crisp lines. A ‘New Renaissance’ for the 21st century, New Renaissance makes for easy reading and looks good in both...
font_designer: Alex Kaczun
Beatnik
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...
Golum
Deep in the bowels of the earth a tortured creature tries to mimic the writings of mankind. It labors long and hard carving the letter forms on the walls of its cave. Many years...
Big Boy
I have always wanted to create the world’s biggest and heaviest font. I admit that I was visually inspired by contenders like Akimoto, Champ Ultra, Blackoak and Bloque. However, I not only wanted a...
BottleKaps
Alex Kaczun, originally designed BottleKaps for Linotype-Hell, in 1992, as a QuickDraw GX multi-master font series. A few new GX applications, like ‘Unicorn’, where able to utilize these unique fonts. The GX application allowed...
Kaczun Oldstyle Bold
There are many subtle and dramatic differences incorporated into this classic beauty. Many shapes have undergone a bold transformation, while others lines remain faithful to that classic period of time that we all know...
Hippyfreak
Hippyfreak was created by manipulating my Beatnik font. I stretched and distorted the outlines until I got an interesting effect reminiscent of the Hippie generation. It has a cool and hip rhythm and movement....
Racetrack
Racetrack is the work of American type designer, Alex Kaczun, and was conceived as a result of developing a logo for a client. Alex was experimenting with a uniform grid pattern, outline and inline,...
Android
Android is an experimental 3D shadow outline font developed by the American type designer Alex Kaczun. The unique lighting created by the beveled edge in combination with an outline font was particularly difficult to...
Contax Pro
Contax Pro is a contemporary design based on generous proportions and clean, crisp lines. Forget about ‘Helvetica’. Look out ‘Univers’. Contax Pro is the new geometric sans typeface series for the 21st century. Contax...