Body Type
Body Type turns human bodies into a functional type system in two different weights, available as a set of 26 hi-res photos or as a colour font, giving plenty of personality to your message.
- Latin
- RegularRegular
- BoldBold
Design concept
Peter Biľak put his years of experience working on modern dance concepts to use, transforming letters into dance moves with his installation Dance Writer. Body Type goes a step further and turns human bodies into a functional type system. While there are plenty of precedents throughout the history of art and typography, from Peter Flötner’s Human Alphabet (1534) to Anthon Beeke’s Nude alphabet (1970), Body Type is unique in the way it uses typographical principles to create a type family with different styles.
Font format
Body Type comes as a set of two OpenType SBIX fonts, which can be used in Adobe applications or in web browsers using multiple-size bitmap images. This works in the same way that Apple Emoji fonts are delivered, a collection of coloured bitmap images embedded in the font. So wherever the Apple Emoji works, this font will work too (Adobe apps, web browsers). Body Type includes all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, but no numbers, punctuation, diacritics or special characters. The human body is simply not very good at making those.
