Parts Of A Char­ac­ter is a typog­ra­phy project that orig­i­nated as an edu­ca­tional print, aimed at typog­ra­phy stu­dents, cre­ated by artist and designer Susanne Cerha of Silo Design, Inc. The print in turn inspired José Rodriguez of JRVi­su­als to create the public inter­ac­tive project Type Is Art.

On the web­site vis­i­tors are invited to create their own visu­als, using the 20 basic typo­graphic shapes that make up the char­ac­ters of the Latin alpha­bet. Those char­ac­ter frag­ments (from Adobe Caslon) become abstract ele­ments, removed from their com­mu­nica­tive capac­ity. They can be freely scaled, rotated and arranged to form new and sur­pris­ing com­po­si­tions. There is an edu­ca­tional aspect to the web­site as well, as the dif­fer­ent parts of the char­ac­ters are named and explained at the bottom.

The visu­als can be saved to a gallery. As cre­ations trickle in to Type Is Art the most orig­i­nal, funny, lewd, obscure, poetic and majes­tic designs are fea­tured on the Parts Of A Char­ac­ter prod­ucts. Those can be pur­chased via the Parts Of A Char­ac­ter web shop.