DESCRIPTION Periodic Table of Typefaces Poster CLIENT Self-promotion DATE May 2009 DESIGN CREDITS Designer: Camdon Wilde Production: Scribble on Everything PRINT CREDITS Emco Press TYPE CREDITS Too many to list

QUANTITY PRODUCED 150 PRODUCTION COST $500 PRODUCTION TIME 3 days DIMENSIONS: WIDTH × HEIGHT × DEPTH 24 in × 18 in PRINT METHOD Offset PAPER STOCK Astrobrights Eclipse Black 80 lb Cover NUMBER OF COLORS 1 spot (PMS 877)

Scribble on Everything, a purveyor of graphic wall decals, prints, apparel and other miscellanea is the proud distributor of designer Camdon Wilde's ambitious print: The Periodic Table of Typefaces. If you spend much time on design blogs you probably saw this floating around quite heavily. While it looked like a stand-alone graphic born for viral consumption, its destiny from the beginning was to be a print, first produced and sold by Camdon himself and then passed on to Scribble. It comes in two color combinations, black on off white paper and, shown here, silver on black paper. Due to its success and popularity, Scribble turned it into a wall decal as well, and a series of t-shirts. They are all available from Camdon's artist page on Scribble.

The poster is one of the most photogenic subjects we have had the pleasure of working with here at UCllc headquarters. Every photograph came out great. The silver on the black paper looks pretty fantastic and the overall density and texture created by all the typefaces looks lovely against black.

For the full scoop on the Periodic Table of Typefaces, you can check this comprehensive page, as well as an interview featuring thorough process images with Camden.

I really want one. It looks amazing.

Ooooh attractive AND clever. I want one too.

I want one too!

Hahaha, was I the only one who immediately saw Media Molecule's brilliant logo in element 79 (Memphis, I think?).

A classic poster. Putting Helvetia in the place of Hydrogen (with the same symbol!) is a no-brainer, and it's totally appropriate - Helvetica is the Hydrogen of the typography universe. ^_^ I do have some quibbles on the placement of Futura, though - first, it needs to be one more space to the right, if it's supposed to match the Periodic Table, and if Helvetica is Hydrogen shouldn't the opposites, Helium and the "Noble Gases," be common serif typefaces? But that's just quibbling, and it's a brilliant poster. (And it includes Chicago!

WANT!

lovely idea, but am I the only one who thinks the typography in the title is horrible?

Nice indeed, but the typography could be better!
keep up the good work.

Seen this before this one. Not original, not well done.

Tom why do you have to be hater, can't you just be happy for someone else who's created something new.

Talk about a wet blanket!

To Jonathan Bybee:

Tom is entitled to his opinion the same as everyone else, surely that is the point of this forum/blog? And I think his point was that he hasn't created something new... This isn't to say I agree with Tom completely.... This is a nice idea, although it has been done before and it has been done better - if you produce a poster on Typography as self promotion then needless to say the typography, especially the title header needs to be pretty shmick.

Part of the history of the Periodic Table is the various refinements and corrections/alterations in theory. It makes sense that there would be multiple theories as to the classification of different Typefaces in a Periodic system.

Regardless of the nitty-gritty, I'd love to get my hands on one of these. Is that a possibility?

Hey all there is a reprint on of this poster on Camel Hair paper with Brown ink. Check it out below.

http://www.scribbleoneverything.com/prints/type-o-file/periodic-table-of-typefaces-poster/prod_137.html

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