28 Excellent Examples Of Typography Portraits

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I’m sure most of us heard of these memorable saying that goes like "A good sketch is better than a long speech" or "A picture is worth a thousand words". Sometimes, even the most complicated issue and matter can be simplified and expressed over a single image. That’s just how incredible images are; but today I want to show you something different, a hybrid of both.

typography portraits

Here’s a showcase of a very unique approach to portrait illustrations. These images below are mixtures of both images and typography, where the latter is used to shape the portraits while the words within have messages to deliver. It is just amazing how manipulation of font types, sizes and keywords can form a great portrait artwork with inner meaning. Full list after jump.

Burdened Barrack Obama | Dylanroscover

burdened obama

Self Portrait | Saluum

self portrait saluum

Mother Teresa | Dencii

mother teresa

Mahatma Gandhi | Dencii

mahatma gandhi

John Lennon | Dencii

john lennon

Martin Luther King, Jr | Dencii

lets all dream togethr

Self Portrait | Stacy Benson

stacey benson

Self Portrait | Stacey Grove

stacey grove

"Screaming" | Goblina

scream

Self Portrait | Vic198x

vic

Self Portrait | Le0arts

leo arts

Mos Def a.k.a Dante Terrell Smith-Bey | DilsJ

mos def

Lady Gaga | Skye Shettle

lady gaga

Scott Weiland | Steve Butabi

steve butabi

Erik Spiekermann | Steve Butabi

steve butabi

Nelly Furtado | Steve Butabi

steve butabi

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails | Maxdoming

maxdoming

Bono of U2 | CaliburlessSoul

Self Portrait | Laemmen

laemmen

Self Portrait | Hworangi107

facing my dreams

Self Portrait | Fostic-Popcorn

fostic popcorn

Self Portrait | EclecticPhoenix

eclectic phoenix

E.B. Portrait | Akeiron

akeiron

Morgan Freeman | Straye-Close

man of his word

Marilyn Manson | CaliburlessSoul

m.manson

Thom Yorke | tbwachiat

thom yorke

Lil Wayne | tbwachiat

thom yorke

humans | Miss–Dee

human

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Posted by hongkiat in Inspiration , at 02.03.10

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Comments

  1. Nimit Kashyap February 3rd, 2010

    very good work.

    Reply
  2. Darth February 3rd, 2010

    Je ne parle pas anglais, mais ce site est vraiment superbe.

    Grâce à lui j’ai pu faire quelques belles réalisation.

    Malheureusement, elle fond pâle figure face à ce qui est montré là.

    Voilà, c’était mon petit encouragement !

    Reply
  3. GaelicAU February 3rd, 2010

    These are obviously done by overlaying a photo using text within a software package. But which one?

    Reply
  4. BigM75 February 4th, 2010

    das ist so graßartig einfach genial

    Reply
  5. yoyomandroid February 4th, 2010

    Good! Good!
    If only there is a Typography Portraits Art generator, it would be fantastic.

    Reply
  6. Nagobonar February 4th, 2010

    I agree wit yoyomandroids. I like to have my own picture with text over it

    Reply
  7. pato morales February 4th, 2010

    hey… look my work http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Frei/245925 if the admin of this site wanna post my work … no problem

    Reply
  8. Silver Moon Fotografía February 4th, 2010

    Stunning!!!!

    Good Job!!!!

    Reply
  9. Silver Moon Fotografía February 4th, 2010

    GaelicAU,

    Here do you’ve got an idea about how to do the simpliest ones!

    http://www.psdtop.com/blog/photo-effects/typographic-portrait-like-grammys-posters/comment-page-1/#comment-16278

    enjoy it !

    Reply
  10. YILKA February 4th, 2010

    All look marvelous ^^ nice ideas too, thanks :)

    Reply
  11. DssBlog February 4th, 2010

    really nice example
    i love how they design the typo portraits
    really cool stuff

    Reply
  12. Sanjeev February 4th, 2010

    Very nice stuff.

    Bookmarked

    Reply
  13. Christian Logan February 4th, 2010

    These typographic faces look awesome!
    Great collection :)

    Reply
  14. Pooja_36 February 4th, 2010

    Hey this is so amazing :D thanks

    Reply
  15. Pooja_36 February 4th, 2010

    Ayiii gracias

    Thank you so much
    Will try with my image today

    Reply
  16. Muhammad Faisal Jawaid Attari February 4th, 2010

    Awesome mind blowing…. how did all that…
    thanks for sharing..

    Reply
  17. Adam Almendras February 4th, 2010

    This is so AMAZING! I wish to have one someday…

    Reply
  18. Soft Skills February 5th, 2010

    Beautiful art :D

    Reply
  19. loswl February 5th, 2010

    These are awesome, wish there was a tutorial :o)

    Reply
  20. alyssa February 5th, 2010

    WOW… just WOW

    Reply
  21. NamsaksiT February 5th, 2010

    It’s a great typography portrait artwork. Nice! ^ ^

    Reply
  22. Rich February 5th, 2010

    awesome set of images! thank you for sharing this and doing the research for us all to discover. i will definitely be referencing this time to time.

    i just want to mention an excellent place for typography is http://www.pilo.me – it by far is the most complete and solid font forum i have visited. you can definitely find similar resources as you have mentioned here at pilo. anyhow, give it a look if you are a type lover. i think it is invite only or it usually is at least, so good luck getting in. if you do get in, be sure to participate as i know they remove deadbeat users time to time.

    thanks again for the excellent links!

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  23. Rob Repta February 6th, 2010

    Looks like a lot of people referenced the same Layer’s tutorial lol
    http://www.layersmagazine.com/photoshop-cs4-a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words.html

    Reply
  24. adrian February 7th, 2010

    Here http://apps.facebook.com/calligrammes/?id=156 you can make something similar

    Reply
  25. Java developer February 7th, 2010

    Some works are really great. Very nice :)

    Reply
  26. peter Sena February 8th, 2010

    These are amazing. I really love seeing Type make up images.

    Reply
  27. peter Sena February 8th, 2010

    Seen some of these before they are really awesome and inspiring. Love Hongkiat its like sex for my RSS reader :)

    Reply
  28. Wisatakaltim February 10th, 2010

    awesome pict
    nice

    Reply
  29. federico Massarotto February 11th, 2010

    nuoooooooooooo!!!

    SO GREAT!!!

    Reply
  30. Pamukkale Branda February 11th, 2010

    Denizli Canvas , Canvas Denizli Thank you

    Reply
  31. oparaah February 12th, 2010

    =.t.a.l.e.n.t.!.=.f.r.e.s.h.!=.b.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l.!.

    Reply
  32. Seni Budaya February 13th, 2010

    Really Great…amazing Kiat..

    Reply
  33. Vector February 21st, 2010

    To learn, and very grateful author!

    Reply

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