tiago pinto caricatures - The Tiago Pinto Caricatures are faces made solely of different letters and symbols from a single font. These quirky characters look widely differen...
Faces with type. A series of typographic faces made using various foreign characters.
A re-creation of page 4 ("Type face") of Unimark's NYC Transit Authority Graphics Manual as found on page 46 of Paul Shaw's excellent book Helvetica and the New York City Subway System. Setting up the grid was easy. And it was fun to try to mimic the letter spacing. But I discovered that Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk Medium (what I used to set the alphabet) is not identical to the 1960s Standard Medium used by Massimo Vignelli. Most of the letterforms seem to be an exact match (the lower and upper Js are slightly different). But the numerals are *totally* different. Some of the punctuation too. Paul Shaw notes that the body copy of the manual itself is set in Helvetica. I used Helvetica Neue 55. More soulellis.com/2010/02/a_modular_system_has_been_devi.html
Faces with type. A series of typographic faces made using various foreign characters.
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What would Helvetica look like if it were a person? Maybe like one of the models on this Spanish design studio's posters.
The Type Faces Project by Tiago Pinto is a nice reminder that we don't have to take everything about design so seriously. The Portuguese advertising
Think Helvetica's a boring typeface? Check out the inventive uses these creatives have put it to, and you may think again!
Type as both language and composition
Each one of these portraits reveals a lot about the character of each typeface it depicts, from Comic Sans to Bodoni to Times New Roman.
Faces with type. A series of typographic faces made using various foreign characters.
This list is certainly not an exhaustive list of seventies fonts but rather a few of my favourite fonts from the era.
Where business and design collide
