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FT Scenik builds a bridge between the American Gothic and European Grotesque typeface genres. It combines design features from both traditions and unites them in a contemporary family. FT Scenik builds a bridge between the American Gothic and European Grotesque typeface genres. It combines design features from both traditions and unites them in a contemporary family.

FT Scenik is a typeface inspired by the modernist typography of Margate, a coastal town in the UK. Drawing on influences from the 1930s to the present day, it merges heritage and contemporary design features to create a versatile type family. FT Scenik is exclusively available at FROST.

Family

The typeface offers an extensive array of options, including 142 styles, 13 weights, and 3 families. Its versatile range is designed for use in any application, regardless of size or scope.

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Condensed

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Text Condensed

Mono

SuperRetalicItalic

ExtrablackRetalicItalic

BlackRetalicItalic

ExtraheavyRetalicItalic

HeavyRetalicItalic

ExtraboldRetalicItalic

BoldRetalicItalic

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MediumRetalicItalic

RegularRetalicItalic

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BlackRetalicItalic

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BoldRetalicItalic

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Styles

The standard cut of FT Scenik is designed specifically for punchy headlines and word marks, while the text cut is tailored for more subtle word marks and smaller body copy. The mono cut is ideal for monospaced applications and smaller body copy.

FT Scenik Condensed Super

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Dreamland ® A one stop
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festivals & vintage rides

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Margate's Old Town draws both tourists and art-lovers with its speciality shops and contemporary art galleries. Vintage stores line the cobbled lanes around Market Place, while cafés and fish-and-chip shops overlook Margate Sands.

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Margate's Old Town draws both tourists and art-lovers with its speciality shops and contemporary art galleries. Vintage stores line the cobbled lanes around Market Place, while cafés and fish-and-chip shops overlook Margate Sands.

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Since Turner Contemporary opened its doors in Margate in 2011, it has been a place for artistic exploration and discovery. Built on the site of the boarding house where JMW Turner stayed during his visits to Margate, the gallery is inspired by the life and work of the celebrated artist, who found inspiration in the town’s skies and light and believed in the power of art as an agent for change. Visitors to Turner Contemporary can enjoy the latest art exhibition, take part in tours or activities, or simply sit and relax in the café while enjoying views of the harbour. The shop features artworks, limited edition prints and specially commissioned clothing and objects by leading contemporary artists and designers. Since we opened, Turner Contemporary has welcomed over 4 million visitors, put over £80 million back into the Kent economy and connected with thousands of people from the local community through our world-class programme. Built on the site where JMW Turner visited, you can see the skies that inspired much of his work from our windows. We celebrate Turner’s spirit of radical enquiry. Designed by David Chipperfield Architects, our building offers unrivalled views out to sea. The windows capture the everchanging light conditions. Every year we work with thousands of children and young people from Margate and Kent. Our pioneering learning programme champions children’s leadership through the arts.

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Since Turner Contemporary opened its doors in Margate in 2011, it has been a place for artistic exploration and discovery. Built on the site of the boarding house where JMW Turner stayed during his visits to Margate, the gallery is inspired by the life and work of the celebrated artist, who found inspiration in the town’s skies and light and believed in the power of art as an agent for change. Visitors to Turner Contemporary can enjoy the latest art exhibition, take part in tours or activities, or simply sit and relax in the café while enjoying views of the harbour. The shop features artworks, limited edition prints and specially commissioned clothing and objects by leading contemporary artists and designers. Since we opened, Turner Contemporary has welcomed over 4 million visitors, put over £80 million back into the Kent economy and connected with thousands of people from the local community through our world-class programme. Built on the site where JMW Turner visited, you can see the skies that inspired much of his work from our windows. We celebrate Turner’s spirit of radical enquiry. Designed by David Chipperfield Architects, our building offers unrivalled views out to sea. The windows capture the everchanging light conditions. Every year we work with thousands of children and young people from Margate and Kent. Our pioneering learning programme champions children’s leadership through the arts.

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The picture perfect entertainment and amusement venue. A one stop shop of culture, food, festival fun and seasonal, vintage style amusement park rides. Considered to be one of the oldest-surviving amusement parks in Great Britain, the site of Dreamland (as it was re-named in 1920) dates back to the British railway boom of the early 1870s when, in its original form, the ‘Hall by the Sea’ was operated by the famous circus impresario ‘Lord’ George Sanger. Thanet District Council compulsorily-purchased the site in September 2013 and work began to restore the iconic Scenic Railway and the park. Capitalising on Margate’s swiftly growing reputation as a brand new capital of British cool, Dreamland Margate reopened in June 2015 with a wealth of new and rejuvenated features set to redefine ‘a day out at the seaside’. Following significant additional investment in 2017, the amusement park was re-landscaped and expanded to provide a space that brings together lovingly restored vintage rides, art installations, eclectic street food, unique bars and a bumper programme of live events. The Rolling Stones played at Dreamland in 1963. Then, in 1969 a safari park opened at Dreamland on the Magic Garden site, where Sanger had his original pleasure garden and animal collection – with elephants, camels and penguins. In 1949 the Scenic Railway caught fire with at least half the structure lost. It was rebuilt with timbers sourced from Lowescroft Pier. Over the early part of the 20th century, the park thrived as a popular visitor attraction and music venue with Margate remaining a hugely popular vacation spot for Londoners. But the town and park’s popularity waned in the 1970s and 1980s as more Brits chose to holiday abroad – but there are plenty of people around today with fond memories of the then-named Bembom Brothers Theme Park! In 1989 Dreamland and Margate was put on the map again by the hugely popular TV series, Only Fools & Horses, as the hilarious episode, The Jolly Boys Outing screened on BBC.

Origins

Inspired by Margate, this typeface blends classic British style with modern playfulness. The design concept draws from iconic elements like the Dreamland amusement park facade and the contemporary aesthetics of current shops and venues in the town.

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Dreamland, Margate

Dreamland Ballroom programme

Ziggy's Rooftop Bar, Margate

Margate Retro, Margate

Dreamland Cinema programme

Haeckels, Cliftonville, Margate

Ramsay & Williams, Margate

Variables

FT Scenik captures Margate's diverse styles through four variable axes: Width, Weight, Slant, and Ascenders. Available in a variable font format, it enhances web performance and animation.

Variables

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Four Axes

Width

The standard and text families are set in 2 widths, regular and condensed. Whilst the mono is only set in the regular width. When using the variable font, custom widths can be set between the 2 values.

Weight

The family includes a total of 13 weights, ranging from Thin to Super, allowing it to transition from quiet and subtle to loud and playful. For optimal legibility, the text and mono cuts have a maximum weight of Heavy

Slant

The typeface offers both Italic and Retalic styles, leaning forwards and backwards with a slant range from -12˚ to 12˚. When using the variable font, custom angles can be set within this range for greater flexibility.

Scenders

The fourth axis is accessible via an alternate style set, extending the height of the ascenders and descenders. This adjustment enhances the typeface's balance and improves legibility in paragraph text.

FT Scenik is a versatile typeface with several adaptable features. The letterforms are designed with tapered intersections to prevent dark spots in tight corners and flaring stems to balance the strokes. It also includes OpenType features such as style sets, case-sensitive forms, tabular figures, and more.

Key Features

Geometric Sans

FT Scenik takes influence from a rich history of geometric typefaces. Namely Futura, which was designed by renowned type designer Paul Renner in 1927. Futura was commissioned by the Bauer Type Foundry for the New Frankfurt project, an affordable housing project. With stripped back forms, Renner produced a typeface based on the Bauhaus design ideology of function over form. His work resulted in a hugely popular typeface that has, and continues, to stand the test of time. These were some of the intended key qualities to be carried through to the design of FT Scenik.

FT Scenik is a versatile geometric sans font designed to work in any application. The font family offers 142 styles, including variable axes and smaller details. Whether for large-scale displays, signage, word marks, or other uses, the nuances of letterforms are important. The family includes both round and square dots by default for increased flexibility. The font's design is inspired by the geometric typography popular in the 1920s and 30s, which can still be seen throughout Dreamland in Margate. Dreamland is known for its distinctive features, including the cinema's tall brick 'fin' tower with its restored original facade and the Scenic Railway, the oldest rollercoaster in the UK, which inspired the name FT Scenik.

Internal Dots

The fundamentals of geometric typefaces explore the structures of the most intrinsic geometric forms. They often feature optically perfect circles, squares, and sharp triangular elements. FT Scenik explores incorporating these intrinsic forms into the letterforms. This is achieved through the use of dot accents, as some of the heavier weights of the letterforms provide a space to carve into. While some other typefaces use dot accents within counters and negative spaces, FT Scenik places the accents inside the positive spaces of the stems.

Bringing the dots inside the characters allows accents to be used in word marks and headlines without affecting tight set leading. With such a utilitarian typeface, the internal dot feature brings a small element of play to the family. The concept explores recognition versus the tradition of legibility. Functional accessibility in typography includes legibility and readability among other things, and often the terms are interchangeable. The internal dots gently touch on the start of pushing the approach to how letterforms can be unconventionally structured, while maintaining the readability in a writing system. The OpenType internal dot feature can be accessed via an alternate style set. Just like the basic Latin characters and punctuation, they are also provided with round and square dots. They are intended to be used in large-scale applications, such as word marks and headlines. Internal dots are provided in both the standard and text cuts of the family.

Other Features

Mood

Putting FT Scenik into practice, we conducted several test runs during the production of the family to analyze, improve, and explore its potential applications. Here are a few of the explorations.

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'Rinko Gimoto', FT Scenik Condensed Super + FT Scenik Text Condensed Book

'Dudley's', FT Scenik Super + Regular

'Recess', FT Scenik Condensed Extrablack + FT Scenik Mono Regular

'Run Club', FT Scenik Condensed Extrablack Italic + Condensed Extrabold + Medium

'Climb Agency', FT Scenik Text Medium + Regular + FT Scenik Mono Book

'Sunley Gallery', FT Scenik Book

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