First created in 1972 by Dave Farey. Originally to be called Horse Feathers or Monkey Business after Marx Brothers films, the titles and humor of which were inspirations. Monkey Business was shortened to Business and eventually became Beesknees. Issued by ITC in 1991. [U&lc, vol. 18, no. 1] Already shown as Beesknees in a phototype specimen by Alphabet Photosetting. [specimen]

Tatiana Lyskova and Elvira Slysh made a Cyrillic version at ParaType (ParaGraph) in 1994.