Beon is a Neon stencil typeface, comes in a single weight, including multilingual support and openType features. Beon can be used for a wide range of projects.
The Beon font as originally been designed for the movie BangBang by Raphael L. Lungo, the typeface has been develop for the appearance of the names of actors and the final drop.
When you make modifications, be sure to add a description of your changes, following the format of the other entries, to the start of this section.
4 Sep 2023 (Bastien Sozeau)
- Update License, cleanup drawing, add glyphs
8 Oct 2014 (Christoph Haag)
- created fontforge sources as base to work on GNU/Linux
- added FONTLOG to .sfdir
- Mastered Font from Fontforge SFDIR to UFO,OTF,TTF,EOT,WOFF,SVG
17 Jan 2011 (Bastien Sozeau)
- Initital release.
Bastien Sozeau is the founder of NoirBlancRouge, an independent type foundry based in Paris since 2019. Specializing in retail and custom typefaces, Bastien has crafted unique fonts for renowned brands such as Kipling, Christian Louboutin and The Olympic Museum. Beyond their commercial work, NoirBlancRouge has also been actively involved in designing free and open-source typefaces since 2013.
Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.
If you want to build fonts manually on your own computer:
make buildwill produce font files.make testwill run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.make proofwill generate HTML proof files.
The proof files and QA tests are also available automatically via GitHub Actions - look at noirblancrouge.github.io/Beon.
Developed by NoirBlancRouge Type Foundry (Originally distributed by graphic design studio Uplaod), Beon is open source and licensed under OFL, the SIL Open Font License allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves.
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.