Comments on: Frankenfonts

Frankenfonts

Kronos_to_Earth — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:33:29 -0800

Artist Julián Dorado puts together typographical creatures. The alphabet can be a little scary.... Typefaces. (via)

There is a time-lapse video of how the images are created, and a pictorial description.

By: Idle Curiosity

Idle Curiosity — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:52:53 -0800

The awesome webcomic Sinfest often features typographic art in which a character morphs over the course of four panels into a kanji character, usually related to the strip somehow.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:08:24 -0800

More face than type.

By: explosion

explosion — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:03:48 -0800

I don't want to snark too hard, since the end result is pretty cool. All the same, it appears that he's essentially noticed that typefaces are shapes, and cartoons can be made of shapes, so "why not make cartoons out of typefaces?" It's clear that he gets a certain amount of inspiration from the limitation, and seeing how he can stretch the shapes helps him out. Creativity out of restriction and all that jazz. All the same, the "type face" conceit seems really more like a gimmick. It's also been done before, and in CSS no less.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:04:56 -0800

Yep, he got Comic Sans right.

By: signalandnoise

signalandnoise — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:49:02 -0800

See historical precedent.

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:09:24 -0800

Thanks, signalandnoise. I just ran into a couple of prints of those letters and wondered who the artist was.