This is kind of amazing… Type designer Dan Rhatigan talking about his love of type, and his typographic tattoos:
And if you didn’t catch all that, Dan helpfully posted a list of his tattoos (as August 2014) on his website:
- R from unknown wood type
- & from Poetica by Robert Slimbach
- ü from Meta Bold by Erik Spiekermann
- s from Fette Fraktur
- K from the old Krispy Kreme logo
- g from Baskerville, based on types of John Baskerville
- § from Champion Gothic Middleweight by Jonathan Hoefler
- 7 from Century Oldstyle Bold by Morris Fuller Benton
- y from Cooper Black Italic by Oswald Cooper
- W from Whitney Bold by Tobias Frere-Jones
- z from Stilla by François Boltana
- r from Maple Medium by Eric Olson
- 2 from Ingeborg Block by Michael Hochleitner
- w from Actium Black Italic by Gerben Dollen
- a from Dolly Italic by Underware
- e from Sodachrome (Left and Right) by Ian Moore and Dan Rhatigan
- Y from Banco by Roger Excoffon
- Å from Leyton by Ian Moore
- C from De Little 30-Line 196
- H from Calypso by Roger Excoffon
- é from Gill Sans Ultrabold (Gill Kayo) by Eric Gill
- B from Festival Titling by Phillip Boydell
- ø from Bell Centennial Bold Listing by Matthew Carter
In another recent video, Dan talks about the design of Monotype’s Ryman Eco, “the world’s most beautiful sustainable font”, which apparently uses 33% less ink than standard fonts:
This promotional video for Ryman Eco is also nicely done: