Typefaces get the graphic treatment with art and design projects that infuse lettering with fun and functionality alike, from ‘Braille Neue’ to specific typefaces rendered as dog breeds. What makes a German shepherd Helvetica? How can you sculpt your facial hair into every letter of the alphabet? Which letters make the best miniature golf courses?

Braille Neue Infuses Existing Characters with Accessibility

Braille and English characters come together in the font ‘braille neue’ by Kosuke Takahashi (also available in Japanese form.) The typeface overlaps the tactile bumps representing each letter with slightly modified versions of existing characters for a surprisingly seamless result that makes you wonder – why hasn’t this been done before?

“Currently, we rarely see braille implemented in the public space since it takes additional space and sighted people consider it not important. Braille Neue addresses this issue by making braille easy to use for sighted people. By spreading this typeset I believe more people will get acquainted with braille.”

Dogs as Fonts

If you had to pair dog breeds with typefaces, how would you go about the process? Designs studio Grafisches Büro compared the characteristics of bulldogs, pugs, dalmations and more with the look and feel of specific typography designs and paired them for a series of fun silk-screened posters. Do you agree with their findings?

Illustrated Typographic Mosaic Illustrations

The colors, patterns and other design sensibilities that make individual cities unique are distilled into typographic mosaic murals by designer Nick Misani. Real as they may look, this motifs inspired by Misani’s travels are actually digital. “For a long time, I’ve been obsessed with lettering, interior design, and decorative art, so mosaics – as an intersection between these three passions – have always been fascinating to me.”

Letter Desks

Do you need a lot of privacy and space to yourself? Maybe you’re a D. Prefer to share a desk surface with a friend so you can bounce ideas off each other? Y. If you like privacy but don’t need as much space, you can share an F with a friend. Designer Benoit Challand illustrates letter-shaped desks with his ‘Fold Yard’ concept, showing how each one can offer a unique workstation that meets very particular needs within an open workspace.

Interactive Font Map

The patterns that make specific fonts similar to each other are visualized by artificial intelligence in this useful interactive map by IDEO. The design team used AI and convolutional neural network for enhanced pattern recognition, displaying 750 fonts in an arrangement that can help designers choose which ones they want to employ for various projects. Check it out here.

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Just Your Type These 15 Typographic Projects Have Lots Of Character

The language of letters themselves is revealed when we look at their shapes as artistic forms and experiment with the materials we use to create them, whether using them as the basis of furniture design, climbing walls or intricately cut works of paper art. These typography-based experiments encourage us to look at the written word in a whole new way.

Typographic Climbing Wall by Gordon Young

4,000 recycled plastic climbing holds join up with 1,000 sea-themed novelty climbing holds to form a typographic wall spelling the name Barry Island in the UK. Gordon Young transformed a sea wall into an interactive landmark for a previously neglected corner of the shore.

Typographic Paper Cuts by Annie Vought

Sometimes consisting of sentences and sometimes just a jumble of letters, these typographic works are painstakingly hand-cut from paper by artist Annie Vought. A piece called ‘Gosh I’ve Been Here Before’ measures 53” wide and consists of sentences strung together in circles like the rings of a tree.

Playing with 3D-Printed Letter For by Thomas Wirtz

Designer Thomas Wirtz created his own typeface, 3D-printed a series of acronyms like ‘BTW,’ ‘FYI’ and POV’ and used them as forms for experimentation with physical media like ink, dye, fire and colored gases.

Letter-Shaped Desks by Benoit Challand

Individual works stations are designed in the shapes of letters to spell out messages in an open-plan office environment, where you tend to either find zero privacy or a maze of cubicles. Designer Benoit Challand aims to celebrate the beauty of large-scale typography while bringing some fun into these spaces, demonstrating the concept with tiny models.

Legible Graffiti by Mathieu Tremblin

Ugly spray-painted tags are a dime a dozen, and almost always illegible. Artist Mathieu Tremblin basically took any artistry out of the tags by converting them into basic typeface, showing us how nonsensical it all is when simply spelled out.

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