Experimental Typography | Anatomical Awesomeness

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

Letters, like men, have now an ancestry, and the ancestry of words, as of men, is often a very noble possession, making them capable of great things.

Indeed, it has been said that the invention of writing is more important than all the victories ever won or constitutions devised by man.

The history of writing is, in a way, the history of the human race, since in it are bound up, severally and together, the development of thought, of expression, of art, of intercommunication, and of mechanical invention.(…)

A letter should possess an esthetic quality that is organic, an essential of the form itself and not the result of mere additions to its fundamental form nor to meaningless variations of it.

Taken from famous type designer Frederic W. Goudy´s “The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering” (1918)

Visuals by Andreas Scheiger, an Austrian graphic designer, typographer and illustrator.