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Erica Carras Pg. 3/8 Made for the indie, grunge or punk scene, Pyk is an upright italic sans serif text face with no fear of being a little bit funky. Inspired by Helmut Salden and his bouncing brush let- tering, Pyk sets out to capture that bouncing rhythm, but with optical adjustments for text setting.

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Erica Carras © Medium 16pt Punk rock (or “punk”) is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as “proto-punk” music, punk rock bands rejected perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record labels and other informal channels. The term “punk rock” was first used by certain American rock critics in the early 1970s to describe 1960s garage bands and subsequent acts then perceived as stylistic inheritors.Be- tween 1974 and 1976 the movement now bearing the name “punk rock” emerged. It produced a new generation of bands such as Television and the Ramones in New York City, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and the Damned in London, and the Saints in Brisbane—

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Punk rock (or “punk”) is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Aus- tralia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as “proto-punk” music, punk rock bands rejected perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record labels and other informal channels. The term “punk rock” was first used by certain American rock critics in the early 1970s to describe 1960s garage bands and subsequent acts then perceived as stylistic inheritors. Between 1974 and 1976 the movement now bearing the name “punk rock” emerged. It produced a new generation of bands such as Tele- vision and the Ramones in New York City, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and the Damned in London, and the Saints in Brisbane— by late-1976 these acts were generally recognized as forming its vanguard. As 1977 approached, punk rock became a major and highly controversial cultural phenomenon in the United King- dom. It spawned a punk subculture expressing youthful rebel- lion characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adorn- ment (ranging from deliberately offensive T-shirts, leather jackets, studded or spiked bands and jewelry, as well as bondage and S&M clothes) and a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies that have since been associated with the form. In 1977 the influ- ence of punk rock music and subculture.came more pervasive, spreading throughout various countries worldwide. It generally Medium 52pt | -30 tracking took root in local scenes that tended to reject affiliation with the