Typographic tattoos
For my sister’s wedding, I used Ministry Script, designed by Alejandro Paul, and containing over 1,000 characters (including alternates, ligatures, etc) and nearly 100,000 kerning pairs. It’s a tour de force of typographic design. Now, someone has taken it a step further, and made a tattoo using the type.
That’s quite a commitment to the art-form.
[via Veer’s Blog]
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Funny, I thought something similar.
When I was working with my sister’s invitations, I spent hours manually re-kerning certain things to better work. I also used several hundred different ligatures to achieve the right calligraphic feel. Overall, though, it’s by far the finest “casual script” I’ve yet seen.
Oh my goodness.
Blind, overarching font lust.
I had plenty enough fun with all the versions of Poetica. This …
Um, I need a shower. Thanks.
You should download the sample book, which is available on Veer’s website. It has a great discussion of the history of the font, as well as the typographic choices made. Mr. Paul did a beautiful job crafting a computer face that has all the fluidity and emotional possibilities of real calligraphic work.
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All I can think is “Man, the kerning is off in ‘Let s’”. And it’s too late to adjust it!