What is the Picture Yourself™ font?
Create your own world with the Picture Yourself collection! Picture Yourself is a graphic image collection, which functions a font family instead of hundreds of EPS files. The family is made up of 24 different symbol typefaces. Designed by the collaborative effort of Karin and Peter Huschka, both living in Germany, Picture Yourself was a winner in the 2003 International Type Design Contest, sponsored by Linotype GmbH. More…
The symbol library found in Picture Yourself offers an astounding array of high-contrast, simple forms, which may be used happily either separately or together in your layouts. Just as the fonts themselves stem from two designers working in collaboration, the imagery of the collection itself stems from two different influences. In large part, the font family was inspired by work displayed in the Frankfurt-based German Architecture Museum’s 2003 Oscar Niemeyer exhibition. The photographs and sketches that were displays there inspired the first ideas for the Picture Yourself world of images. More of the typeface’s design, as well as its name, were inspired by the underlying philosophy of the Beatles’ music, especially the classic song from Lennon and McCartney, “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.”
In comparison with other large pictographic type collections, all of the characters in Picture Yourself fonts share the same horizon. The glyphs themselves are also drawn so that many of them can be combined with one another, creating tall or wide decorative compositions. Additionally, the proportions of the forms of the pictographs are aligned with various industry standards, in order to harmonize workflow. Picture Yourself Portraits (3:4), Landscapes (6:4), Cinema (9:4), and Panorama (12:4) each adhere to one of several photo or video formats. The Picture Yourself family of fonts can best be used with graphics applications like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, where different characters may be assigned to different layers, each with their own color.
Picture Yourself™ Font families
The Picture Yourself™ includes the following font families:
- Picture Yourself Crowds Of People Portrait 1
- Picture Yourself Crowds Of People Portrait 2
- Picture Yourself Crowds Of People Portrait 3
- Picture Yourself Crowds Of People Portrait 4
- Picture Yourself Endless Roads Portrait 1
- Picture Yourself Endless Roads Portrait 2
- Picture Yourself Endless Roads Landscape1
- Picture Yourself Endless Roads Landscape 2
- Picture Yourself Malicious Gardens Portrait
- Picture Yourself Malicious Gardens Landscape
- Picture Yourself Malicious Gardens Panorama
- Picture Yourself Malicious Gardens Cinema
- Picture Yourself Marshmallow Skies Portrait
- Picture Yourself Marshmallow Skies Landscape
- Picture Yourself Marshmallow Skies Panorama
- Picture Yourself Marshmallow Skies Cinema
- Picture Yourself Pools Of Tears Portrait
- Picture Yourself Pools Of Tears Landscape
- Picture Yourself Pools Of Tears Panorama
- Picture Yourself Pools Of Tears Cinema
- Picture Yourself Seeds Of Cities Portrait 1
- Picture Yourself Seeds Of Cities Portrait 2
- Picture Yourself Seeds Of Cities Portrait 3
- Picture Yourself Seeds Of Cities Portrait 4
Picture Yourself™ Preview
Here is a preview of how Picture Yourself™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
