I first saw these anatomical letters at Street Anatomy:
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.
More like this
In the back of a book I just finished, I noticed this odd paragraph on its own page:
Most of you know that different fonts and typefaces can give your documents a certain feel, a certain flair, or a certain artistic element that you wouldn't get using the same old font for everything.
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The best Lady Gaga parody yet? Judge for yourself:
so these are imaginary creatures? are teh bones based on any sort of creatures?
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.
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.
I like it! I'll have to share these with my human osteology class tomorrow.