Thousands of fonts, and some on skin.

Here’s an interesting photo-book about tattoo typography — “Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh,” by Ina Saltz (09-2006). Found on Tim Cole’s blog,  he’s with the Adobe InDesign team, “This book makes me wonder if the lack of a series of Body Art templates is a glaring oversight on our part.”

There is also a flickr group (of course) that chronicles “words on skin”: Link

[via BoingBoing]

Things of beauty.  Typography though simple, is an amazing thing when used correctly. I was helping put together a small showcase of tattoo and other art by a local tattoo artist, perhaps that’s why I found this so interesting.

Tags: Art, Books, Design, Interesting, Photographs, Tattoo