Talk about bringing words to life! Kerozen, a French graphic design studio, has developed a new typeface that actually replicates human skin.
Kerozen designer JC Debroize created the letters, which are based on photographs of Kerozen’s seven-member design team. The faces of the characters appear to be decorated with human eyes and hair.
Debroize told Co.Design, “I first made the letters in old-school 3-D with modeling clay. We shot pictures of the letters and of the design team’s faces. Then I made a mapping of skin textures on the letters with Photoshop and added the hair and the eyes. It was not a problem to show an unflattering image of us. We laughed a lot making this.”
The typeface was developed specifically for a calendar printed by the design studio annually for clients.
The page for the “human type” on the creative work website Behance has accumulated well over 10,000 views and more than 600 appreciations. Most of the comments on the page are complimentary, but some specify the creepiness of the letters. One viewer describes the typeface as “scary and beautiful.”
See the full collection here.
