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Building Your Character with Type

Image: Power to the people: Miguel Cardona

Here’s a great way to fill a few minutes of downtime and brush up on your typeface anatomy knowledge. Here’s a quote from the site:

Parts Of A Character is a typography project that originated as an educational print, aimed at typography students, created by artist and designer Susanne Cerha of Silo Design, Inc. The print in turn inspired José Rodriguez of JRVisuals to create the public interactive project Type Is Art.

On the website visitors are invited to create their own visuals, using the 20 basic typographic shapes that make up the characters of the Latin alphabet. Those character fragments (from Adobe Caslon) become abstract elements, removed from their communicative capacity. They can be freely scaled, rotated and arranged to form new and surprising compositions.

And your creations can be saved in a gallery and shared with all the friends.

It’s a lot of fun.

Tags: Adobe, Caslon, José Rodriguez, JRVisuals, Miguel Cardona, silo design, Susanne Cerha, type as art, typography