32 Beautiful Text Art Creations
Text isn’t just limited to language, it can be also used to create unique, unusual pieces of art. This roundup features a selection of creative imagery composed entirely with text.
Inspirational Text Art
All About hand
Created in Illustrator, this demonstrates how text can be used to make the ordinary seem dynamic and unique.
Mos Def Lyric Portrait
A beautiful mix of style and various typefaces give this Lyrical portrait a multi-cultural vibe that really make it ‘pop’.
Type Industry
An exploration of the combination of type and engineering, with a lovely use of angles to anchor the image on the letter T.
It’s Graphic Design
It’s Graphic Design, not Art – so says this text art. It’s a short essay/manifesto about the relationship between graphic design and art.
Jimi In Type
It’s not as detailed as other type portraits but it’s worth seeing just for the attention to the hair, it’s managed to capture some of the Jimi Hendrix style.
Here’s Looking At You
An illustration for Computer Arts Magazine #111, for an article about typography, with all of the elements hand placed in Illustrator.
Type Art Portrait
This is one of the softest, most creative type art pieces i’ve seen. The tones created by the varying colours and typefaces are beautiful.
Tuatara In Type
This is a Tuatara reptile which is native to New Zealand. It was created in Illustrator and the words used are those that describe the creature.
Love Graphic Design
A different take on the usual text art portraits, it focuses on the background with a confetti like effect.
One Planet
Created in honor of LIVE EARTH 7.7.07. It represents the fact that although we all come from different countries, we are all the same.
Deadly Sin Typography
This is the deadly sin of Wrath with the entire image being solely illustrated by the word Wrath.
Steven Paul Jobs
Perhaps one of the most well known pieces of text art is this portrait of the enigmatic Steve Jobs – founder of Apple.
Times New Roman
An impressive piece which uses the word Typography to construct the female form. It’s a beautiful composition.
M Typographied
The letter M created with the theme “mystery” in mind, this is the second variation of this work which has been given the 3D effect.
Typograthree
In total there were 1612 words used all of them read the number Three. Each was individually set and not copied and pasted.
Self Portrait
This has a delicate ethereal quality which is due to the fantastic use of light, gradients and colour.
What You Write
One of the pieces here that delivers the biggest impact, combining photography and typography with a message behind it.
Martin Luther King
This is part 2 in a series, it uses Bickham Script Pro letters, numbers and characters which are scaled, not distorted along with about 8-9 shades of gray.
Typographic Tree
The history of Typography formed into the shape of a tree as if conveying the very roots of Typography and it’s growth throughout the years.
China Doll
Created in honor of Hispanic day on DeviantART, this is a wonderful portrait drawn directly from a wonderful portrait photograph.
Typographic Portrait
A creative use of the form of letters to suggest lines, the contrast of the huge letters with the stark white background is very effective.
Homeless
A simple yet powerful message is conveyed where the park bench is constructed with a paragraph explaining the plight of those who face life without a home.
Convocation
A piece for a school organisation where the words used for the question mark are a mix of communication professors, equipment, technicians, subjects and laboratories.
Eye Believe
A highly original portrait made entirely out of text to give a newspaper scrapbook effect.
Beer Directions
A poster with directions from Central New Jersey to Philadelphia. It’s themed around the visiting bars along the way and conveys the idea of a drunken night by making it jumbled confusing.
It’s The Joker
An amazing piece of text art which absolutely captures the very essence in which Heath Ledger portrayed the Joker.
Brasilia
Text art in the shape of Brazil, where the bold choice of typeface and colour give this an immediately strong impact.
Am I Your Type?
A self portrait created with the font Trajan Pro, it’s one of my personal favorites due to the incredible details and raw emotion.
With Great Humility..
This portrait of Barack Obama contains the entirety of his 2008 Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech… in his face!
Typomin M
The word “typomin” is a combination of the words typography and vitamin. The image is composed solely of the letters “M”, “O” and “C”.
Love Her Once More
The wonderful effect that the face has exploded with typography is mesmerising to look at.
84 Comments
Ilustraciones muy creativas…
Flag as inappropriateSe nota el buen trabajo!!
GOOD.
Flag as inappropriateVery good.
beautiful…creative…i like it!!!
Flag as inappropriatecreative…%&(*()_$%^&…
Flag as inappropriateTake a look at this artist, he makes typographic art: http://www.eugenelvovsky.com/typeis
Flag as inappropriateits cool and perfect
Flag as inappropriateit’s cool…
Flag as inappropriateexcelente art
Flag as inappropriatemuy bueno
Flag as inappropriatethanks very creative works
Flag as inappropriatenice work………………..
Flag as inappropriateIt`s an impressive collection you have here, awesome.
Flag as inappropriateawesome
Flag as inappropriateGreat job! I liked “One Planet”!
Flag as inappropriateAwesome works I had see that in south african musian cd cover since looking at more from other peaple i’m more inspire than ever before on achieving that. the first time I saw it I were wondering how to do it felt it was impossible now I got the solution, keep up with great works and thank!
Flag as inappropriatenice art!! i love it:)
Flag as inappropriateThe Self Portrait one is great! Thanks for the blog post.
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Best Wishes,
Flag as inappropriateAWESOME!!! thanks
Flag as inappropriateits cool and perfect
Flag as inappropriateA new web app designed for creating creative text arts . it was just cool , worth trying it http://goo.gl/3cLF
Flag as inappropriateVery nice pieces !
Flag as inappropriateAmazing pieces of work.
Flag as inappropriateThanks for your post , Great post.33
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Flag as inappropriateGreat reading! Thanks for sharing
Flag as inappropriateWow. Nice.. The one about Obama is the best.. =)
Flag as inappropriateSpeech in his face..
They are great. thanks.
Flag as inappropriateWonderfully inspiring collection – thanks so much!
Flag as inappropriatecool drawings, especially “Here’s Looking At You”
Flag as inappropriatenice collections…
I wrote a tutorial about how to create a word cloud
http://techgyaan.com/tutorials/2009/10/how-to-create-a-word-cloud-effect/
Flag as inappropriateamazing pieces great work thanks for sharing :O)
Flag as inappropriateGrace, very good! Peace.
Flag as inappropriatehttp://metagallery.com/artworks/originals/1/alex+grey/81/
Flag as inappropriateGreat collection of text art and very inspirational. I really like seeing these typography related posts. Thanks for sharing these with us.
Flag as inappropriateGreat compilation!!! I knew some examples because I did a similar work like final project of fine arts. You can see it in my website: http://www.francisco-aranda.tk (layout section)
Flag as inappropriateGreat work, patience and humility… coudn’t do that, thanks!
Flag as inappropriateThese are great! I’ve always been a fan of the text art!
Flag as inappropriateImpressive collection, Grace. Thanks for sharing it!!! Regards.
Flag as inappropriatewow how insprational thankyou for sharing this awesome work with us
Flag as inappropriateEs realmente bello, la creatividad que esta aqui
Flag as inappropriatees hermosa
Wow! Amazing typography art
Flag as inappropriateNB: not one piece of ASCII art either.
Flag as inappropriateUmm, not one of these is about the words containing a message, or communicating that message… the textual component is filler… which is why I ask why not just have an image? This is basically misuse of text, and doesn’t present a dual visual/written message for the most part, it instead uses glyphs as some textural element, legible or not. The closest to reasonable is the world map, but still, there is to my mind a fundamental lack of content in these images, they’re all fluff and filler. This just proves that most people would rather look at a picture than read a paragraph.
Flag as inappropriateSome really nice and interesting ideas here.
Flag as inappropriatereally wonderful work, I suppose the trick would be to get google to index them based on the type tags
Flag as inappropriateGreat tutorials.
Flag as inappropriateGrace, awesome collection! Reminds me of student work I did at the University of Hawaii with Karen White and Ann Bush. Wonderful!
Flag as inappropriateReally nice collection.
Flag as inappropriatecool stuff Grace! I was getting tired of just seeing Steve Job’s portrait everywhere, this list is sooo fresh!
Flag as inappropriateGreat list of inspiration
Flag as inappropriategreat inspiration, nice list…I havent seen of them before… great work
Flag as inappropriategreat work
thanks.
Flag as inappropriateThere are 3 version of the joker, the rest are…
http://underpk.deviantart.com/art/Joker-Again-113258753
http://underpk.deviantart.com/art/Joker-108995502
:)
Flag as inappropriateWOW! Neat examples. I love these typography related posts. Keep it up!
Flag as inappropriateVery cool! Mine would fit perfectly haha
http://i36.tinypic.com/14y2u5u.jpg
http://i35.tinypic.com/jqkjgn.jpg
But this one where a lot easier to make :P
Flag as inappropriateThanks everyone for the good feedback. They definitely inspired me to think about creating a text art piece.
@Tim Thanks Tim! Twitter + RSS Feeds + Lots of Tea = inspiration ;-)
Flag as inappropriateBeautiful collection Grace. Thanks for sharing it!
Flag as inappropriateAwesome I like them. It seem dificult to doing.
Flag as inappropriateBeautiful! I don’t know if I’d have the patience for doing something like that – would love to give it a go one day though! ;)
Flag as inappropriateWow Grace! I firmly believe that you find some of the coolest stuff on the web. Great job with this list!
Flag as inappropriateWhat a gorgeous collection! Wow, I am so inspired by these pieces. I don’t play with type too much but this makes me want to experiment …
Flag as inappropriateNice collection. I haven’t seen most of these. Someone really put some time in the Jimi one.
Flag as inappropriateWow, great collection. I posted a link to this page on my daily design blog: http://designthoughtfortheday.blogspot.com/
Ted
Flag as inappropriateGreat list. All designs are great
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