- July 27th, 2009
- Inspiration
25 Beautiful Examples Of Typography Portraits
A great design trend of seen appearing more and more often around the web is using typography to create portraits. This post I’ve compiled an amazing list of 25 beautiful typography portraits which are perfect for inspiration and are simply mind blowing designs. I hope you enjoy and feel free to leave a comment to say which one is your favourite.
1) SE HABLA ESPANIOL
4) Screaming
7) Lil Wayne
9) britney
10) Erik Spiekermann
11) Obama
12) linh 
13) Martin Salaser 
14) Self Portrait
15) CAP Typography illustration 
16) Self-Portrait
17) Project: Type Portrait – Value
18) More than Words 
20) Type Face
21) My portrait. 
22) Typographic Face
23) Jay-Z
24) Ze Frank
25) Weiland Type
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July 27th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Veeeery Interesting, I enjoy Steven Paul Jobs the most I think. We’ll see where this takes me next…
July 27th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Those are GREAT! What awesome work. I particularly love 16, 20, and 24.
That’s something I’d really love to learn how to do–any tutorials you’d recommend?
July 27th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Amazing typography portraits for me, thanks a lot
See more typography video in my blog: http://tr.im/u3qx
July 27th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
These are amazing. I’d like to learn more about typography!
July 27th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Brilliant selection! Love 2, 7 & 8. Guess I’d have fun trying to figure out how emulate this effect, but I’d rather learn the proper way… Appreciate a tut recommedation. Cheers!
July 27th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
@BebopDesigner heres two tuts that might be able to help you out.
“Create a Simple, Professional Typographical Design”
http://tinyurl.com/azanwl
“Creating a Typographic Wallpaper”
http://tinyurl.com/db7q2n
July 27th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
I couldn’t say for certain which is my fav. Like all art I see something uniquely different in each. Enjoyed though!
July 28th, 2009 at 1:53 am
here’s one more! (click my name)
July 28th, 2009 at 4:40 am
I like all of them but I think 2 is my favorite.
July 28th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Found this through Fonts72.com, excellent work, nice collection. Thanks for sharing.
July 29th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
i think these examples are beautiful but i wonder at what point does it stop becoming typography ?
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:40 am
Very nice…
August 4th, 2009 at 9:02 am
very Nice~~~ thank you for shared..
August 4th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
So COOL!
August 5th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
thanks for sharing, its really impressive, so different. i love it
August 7th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Nice images
August 16th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Obama and Thom Yourke are the best.
August 24th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Nice collection.
Here are some [typo]rtraits of mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/128589439
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/90886162
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/338133695/sizes/l/in/set-72157594470956747
Hope you like them
August 31st, 2009 at 4:31 am
Which one is original? http://www.designers-revolution.com/?p=3863
September 1st, 2009 at 6:51 am
@raj – This articles is the original you can tell by the date the article was created.
September 28th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Great post. I came across a Typographic Pinup Calendar by Taylor Lane that has some simple but cool portraits. Check them out:
http://ocondesign.com/?p=975
November 4th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
number 9 is definitely NOT Britney
January 12th, 2010 at 4:45 am
Great ! Nos. 3, 14 and 18 are my favs.
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:39 pm
These are obviously done by overlaying a photo using text within a software package. But which one?