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Category: Artists & ArtEphemeraWords
Posted on: February 23, 2008 5:27 PM, by Jessica Palmer

I first saw these anatomical letters at Street Anatomy:

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Typeface Anatomy
Bjorn Johansson


Unfortunately artist Bjorn Johansson doesn't seem to have completed the alphabet; these three specimens are all we find in the fossil record. But you can view another typeface, Handwritten, based on photos of hands, in his portfolio.

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1

so these are imaginary creatures? are teh bones based on any sort of creatures?

Posted by: floatingrunner | February 23, 2008 11:05 PM

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Well, you can come up with some highly entertaining scenarios for what creatures with these skeletal structures would look like - I can see the "O" as a giant ring-shaped Muppet with long purple fur and googly eyes - but the bones appear to be just imaginative variations on basic mammal morphology. I don't know if the artist had anything more specific in mind.

Posted by: Jessica Palmer | February 24, 2008 1:02 PM

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Those are gorgeous! If you are interested in typefaces, Alexander Lawson's "Anatomy of a Typeface" provides a fascinating historical analysis of the origins and characteristics of the main families: blackletter, garalde, old-style, transitional, modern, grotesque san, humanist sans, etc.

Posted by: PhysioProf | February 24, 2008 9:21 PM

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I like it! I'll have to share these with my human osteology class tomorrow.

Posted by: Laelaps | February 25, 2008 9:18 PM

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