Nicola Ginzler

Senior Graphic Designer
Vertical image of gray cat with white chin, on white background. Cat is lying with her back to the viewer and her head turned around to face towards the viewer. Her back fur has visible brush marks. Black text above the image reads "Odalisque, After Brushies" in an ornate script typeface.

Fur Font Friday 1

Vertical image of gray cat with white chin. Cat is lying with her back to the viewer and her head turned around to face towards the viewer. Her back fur has visible brush marks. Black text above the image reads "Odalisque, After Brushies" in an ornate script typeface.

This my cat “Eights” on her eighth birthday, after being brushed with her new purple brush (on left), a birthday present from Laura T.

"Odalisque, After Brushies," in 6 different script typefaces.

Various other typefaces I considered. I ended up choosing “Recherche” because it has flourishes but is still readable.

Painting, "La Grande Odalisque," by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. In an Orientalist room, a naked woman reclines on a couch, her head turned to look back over her shoulder.
“La Grande Odalisque” (concubine) by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1814 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Odalisque) – Public Domain.
Black and white photograph of two of the Guerrilla Girls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Girls) in front of a photo of the painting "The Grand Odalisque" by Ingres (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Odalisque). The two women wear gorilla masks and a gorilla mask has been pasted onto the figure in the painting. Headline: "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?" Subhead: "Less than 4% of the art in the Modern Art sections are by women, but 76% of the nudes are female."
Black and white photograph of two of the Guerrilla Girls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Girls) in front of a photo of the painting “The Grand Odalisque” by Ingres – (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Odalisque).
Headline: “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?”
Subhead: “Less than 4% of the art in the Modern Art sections is by women, but 76% of the nudes are female.”
Photo by Eric Huybrechts – https://www.flickr.com/photos/15979685@N08/15330478694/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48413410