Nudist typeface has pixellated "naughty bits"

Craig Oldham's "Nudist" typeface has its naughty bits pixellated (in other weights, the same spots are covered by tasteful figleaves or black CENSORED bars). Link (via Kottke)

[#1 posted by runasand , March 19, 2008 6:51 AM]

Just when I thought nothing could surprise me anymore..

[#2 posted by Argon , March 19, 2008 7:00 AM]

Hehe, you can still see the tee-tees.

[#3 posted by eliterrell , March 19, 2008 7:09 AM]

That's amusing, but the censorship seems a bit arbitrary. I'd have blurred the other end of the 'r' and the saucy dots on the 'i.' They are called tittles, by the way. Sure it might adversely affect readability but that's not the priority here.

[#4 posted by acb , March 19, 2008 7:36 AM]

I'm wondering how this font is implemented; IIRC, both TrueType and PostScript Type 1 implemented fonts as monochromatic vector outlines. Does OpenType support multicoloured fonts these days? Is there a technology for creating high-resolution coloured bitmap fonts? Or is this "typeface" a series of images rather than an actual usable product?

[#5 posted by carlo , March 19, 2008 7:57 AM]

cute... I never would have thought that pixels are the building blocks of type.
learn something new everyday...

[#6 posted by Simon Greenwood , March 19, 2008 8:01 AM]

ACB@4:

The link says that the font is unrealised, so it probably can't be done in any font format so it would be bitmaps.

[#7 posted by ZippySpincycle , March 19, 2008 8:13 AM]

@ 6 Or naughtybitmaps

[#8 posted by shmengie , March 19, 2008 9:34 AM]

lm, lm, spr-lm. cry mst b brd. hy cry, n't yr nw bby ntrstng ngh fr y?

[#9 posted by Lone , March 19, 2008 9:56 AM]

Would consider this more of a "type treatment within a design" concept than purely a font since the topic application would be somewhat limited. Good ideas all the same. :)

[#10 posted by shmengie , March 19, 2008 10:33 AM]

wld b mch hppr f trs nlsn hydn kpt hr dtrl pnns n pnt. 'm spkng f my pst bv whr sd ths s lm pst n cry's prt. h...nkkd fnts! s, trs dcds t mk *m* lk lk lm- by dltng ll my vwls. wht th hll? y dn't lk my pnn? fn, dlt t. bt dn't bs yr dtrl pwr by chngng my pst t try t mk m lk stpd.

(btw, 'v mt cry. lk cry. my rgnl pst ws nly gd-ntrd pk t th pst, nt hm).

[#11 posted by Beanolini , March 19, 2008 11:07 AM]

#4, ACB:

TrueType fonts can optionally include bitmaps, and it would seem they can be coloured. Vector data is obligatory.

[#12 posted by sonny p fontaine , March 19, 2008 11:11 AM]

hey shmengie, I've got black friends. One thing I've learned thru-out the years; don't blame your fealings on someone else, it knida makes you seem like a lame-o.

[#13 posted by gene , March 19, 2008 11:57 AM]

I don't get it.

[#14 posted by buddy66 , March 19, 2008 1:05 PM]

I don't get it either. And by the way, I spent 20 years as a professional letterer; they'll never be 'fonts' to me — they're alphabets.

[#15 posted by justONEguy , March 19, 2008 1:57 PM]

Third post in a row on not getting it. I'm all for esoteric humor, but this is confusing. (I love type and typography and naked people, BTW.)

[#16 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator , March 19, 2008 8:12 PM]

Have you ever seen photographs of naked people where the naughtiest bits were digitally obscured by transforming the area into oversized blurry pixels? It's like that.

[#17 posted by assumetehposition , March 19, 2008 9:45 PM]

Letters don't have naughty bits.

[#18 posted by Antinous , March 19, 2008 9:56 PM]

Is there a virus going around that destroys the part of the brain where humor is processed?

[#19 posted by insomma , March 20, 2008 3:02 AM]

This is perfect for penis-straw Walmart mom!