Body Type
Typotheque · Peter Biľak · 2011
A conceptual display typeface by Peter Biľak in which each letter is formed by a human body, delivered as an OpenType SBIX colour bitmap font.
About
Each of the 26 Latin letters is constructed from photographs of human bodies posed as letterforms, drawing on a lineage that includes Peter Flötner's Human Alphabet of 1534 and Anthon Beeke's Nude Alphabet of 1970. The font ships as two OpenType SBIX files embedding multi-size colour bitmaps, working wherever Apple Emoji fonts work, including Adobe applications and web browsers. Coverage is limited to the basic Latin alphabet with no numerals, punctuation or diacritics, a constraint the foundry attributes to the natural limits of the human body.
Classification
Body Type uses bitmap images of human bodies forming letters, making it a pictorial display typeface rather than a conventional letterform system. It functions as a novelty or conceptual type family built on OpenType SBIX colour bitmap technology.