Gorgeous Examples of Floral Typography
Floral typography is the technique that combines typography, calligraphy and lettering to create dynamic, “flourishing” designs. With the help of floral elements you can create very tempting and vivid artworks in which the typography seems to be shaped by plants and flowers. In this way you can convey your message in a very artistic way. In fact, various floral ornaments – which are the essential component of floral typography – can make the design stand out and help the artist to create inspiring, refreshing and thought-provoking pieces of art.
Below you’ll find a beautiful collection of floral typography and also some outstanding tutorials that will help you to master the technique or at least get some understanding of how this technique can be used. Please feel free to explore the further works of the artists presented below as well.
Floral Typography Examples
Christmas present – SiScott style
Chanel 4 25th Anniversary Book
Floral Typography Tutorials
Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect
Create an Ancient Typography with Dry Soil Texture and Floral Brushset in Photoshop
Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop
Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography
Old School Type – Line Gradients
Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop
How to Create a Richly Ornate Typographic Illustration
XHTML Candy
May 23rd, 2009 11:23 amGreat list of typography. just awesome.
Jagat
May 23rd, 2009 11:25 amThanks a lot. Nice Collection.
dv
May 23rd, 2009 11:52 amgreat list, it’s good that you guys keep the standards up for selecting stuff others will spend time viewing, thanks
Floris Fiedeldij Dop
May 23rd, 2009 12:12 pmSigh, now I will spend another week in ps/cs4 forgetting about the world.
Shazy
May 23rd, 2009 12:14 pmI think photos has gone slightly inside from right hand side? i am right? beautiful collection of typography
Ida Aalen / @idaAa
May 23rd, 2009 12:48 pmThis isn’t new, its from the 1750s!
Hehe, joking aside, it really reminds me of “Rosemaling” (lit. ‘rose painting’):
From the all-mighty Wikipedia:
“a form of decorative flower painting that originated in the low-land areas of eastern Norway around 1750, when Baroque, Rengeny and Rococo, artistic styles of the upper class, were introduced into Norway’s rural culture.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemaling
maryandmac
May 23rd, 2009 1:01 pmbeautiful work! thanks for sharing.
Jonathan
May 23rd, 2009 1:09 pmSome nice stuff here, although a few do look very similar to one another and some are just not readable. I particularly like the ones with a 3D shadow effect.
Nerisson
May 23rd, 2009 1:25 pmW O N D E R F U L L !
Tschai
May 23rd, 2009 1:28 pmfan-tas-tic!
ryan
May 23rd, 2009 2:54 pmlooks like Sy Scott inspired a trend! he did many of the pieces in there, didn’t he? I know Summer Exhibition is his too.
Chris Berry
May 23rd, 2009 3:14 pmSome are beautiful to behold, but fail completely at communicating a message since they are totally illegible.
Drew R
May 23rd, 2009 5:01 pmBeautiful typography! Fav is the “black out” towards the top. Great collection of typography.
xKelevra
May 23rd, 2009 5:07 pmI must be the only one who was bored at the half way point viewing these. They all look the same, and don’t really excite, unless you love looking at the same floral patterns over and over.
Abner
May 23rd, 2009 6:02 pmI love Yulia Brodskaya’s work!
Average Joe
May 23rd, 2009 6:18 pmI think Tord Boontje started (reinvented) this technique before Sy Scott, then it was used in the demoscene and now everywhere. Amazing stuff, but most of them are really similar.
Fardan
May 23rd, 2009 10:47 pmawesome!
logicalnot
May 23rd, 2009 10:55 pmAgree with nº14. This selection is coming 2 years too late.
Time to move on folks.
Ozy
May 24th, 2009 1:16 amDrop the floraluse guys, its a dead trend :)
Wireless and nature are still nicely done.
But floral,, nah
Kevin
May 24th, 2009 3:18 amSimply amazing! Wow!
macias
May 24th, 2009 4:18 amwow – beautiful !
Harald Schipper
May 24th, 2009 4:39 amAmazing collection! Really love.. wel.. all of them I guess. Especially those by Yulia Brodskaya.
domonoky
May 24th, 2009 4:58 amVery nice.
But many of this show the common problem of overdoing it. If you add to much to the text, it becomes unreadable, and the whole point is lost.
Berong
May 24th, 2009 6:13 amWoW!
no matter what media is behind all these.
it’s stunning.
Listen Up!
May 24th, 2009 7:48 amThoroughly enjoyable post. Fantastic, inspiring collection! Kudos, Aquil Akhter!
Ally E.
May 24th, 2009 7:50 amamazing. so inspirational. now I wan t to go and make my own floral typo.
Tsesci
May 24th, 2009 8:28 amnice
Arsi
May 24th, 2009 10:41 amamazing work
iphigenia3
May 24th, 2009 10:55 amThis reminds me a lot of the calligraphy examples in the Speedball handbook when buying pen points and supplies in my distant youth!
Peo
May 24th, 2009 1:18 pmI belive it is Leo Burnett not Leo Burnej. Nice list btw.
Natalia
May 24th, 2009 2:17 pmWOW!!! Amazing work!!
Michel
May 24th, 2009 2:40 pmGreat work…beautifull fonts
Kate Vickers
May 24th, 2009 4:53 pmSo beautiful! An inspiration… I’m off to do some of my own design now. ;-)
DebbyBruck
May 24th, 2009 5:49 pmI quick skim through and the one that stands out for me is the twillery. Curled paper design.
Omer Yaqub
May 24th, 2009 8:02 pmI am speechless……..
grasya
May 24th, 2009 9:10 pmI envy :c
speedcu
May 24th, 2009 11:20 pmwow! breathtaking stuff!!!! amazing
Quakeulf >:3
May 24th, 2009 11:57 pmI feel the neo-hippies glee and drool over this. Oh look, there’s even a peace-sign thrown in there! Love and peace man, love and peace. B3
geir
May 25th, 2009 5:25 amit´s Si Scott, not Sy Scott.
Look at the new stuff that Si Scott is creating, i think it is way better than his old stuff and he add images of animals also.
Kindle
May 25th, 2009 6:44 amOne of the best posts ever.
joeth
May 25th, 2009 10:55 amso 2008
rith
May 25th, 2009 11:46 amvery beautiful and inspiring post, I wonder if there are other post on this subject and if there are tutorials to learn a bit…
Webdesgin News
May 25th, 2009 2:29 pmInspiring
Aaron Mc Adam
May 25th, 2009 6:26 pmThese are beautiful, though I’m not sure about legibility! lol
mssusan
May 25th, 2009 9:46 pmWOW! very beautiful… is there any tutorial for those?
Jesse
May 26th, 2009 5:15 amLove this article. Great stuff Smashing!
Sid Armstrong
May 26th, 2009 6:04 amThank you for sharing.. Love the “A New Leaf”, and how it just stands with 3D..
Cathedral Graphic Design
May 26th, 2009 11:10 amHey, it may be an old trend, but it sure deserves to live on! I love retro floral, art noveau influences et cetera. This post is nice to look at.
Yes, many of them are impossible to read… it obscures the “message” if the message is anything but ornament; somehow I think that many of these (and the less legible ones) are showing off illustration skill rather than trying to communicate a message – such as “type art.” Yes, we can see it’s art (although the type side is doubtful) without having to read the obscured words…
Overall, I enjoyed seeing this post, thanks Smashing!
Endless Art
May 27th, 2009 12:32 amNice work
dis is one the best work i have c……. the word cant help me at this time
………….
Nicole
May 27th, 2009 6:57 amThis was actually a beautiful collection of typography. They were all great examples of floral typography. Some of them have been circulating for a couple of years, but if they’ve survived that long, they have to have some merit. The one that amazed me the most was “Silk”. I agree with some of the above comments in how the message of some works was obscured by the artwork itself, and were, in fact, overly bearing, but beautiful in the least.
Piyush Poddar
May 27th, 2009 10:04 pmAbsolutely Jaw Dropping!
Adam Alyan
May 28th, 2009 3:09 amLoads of repeated entries!
orangetiki
May 28th, 2009 10:55 amWow florals done right. And I normally HATE florals. DO NOT PUT OUT A TUTORIAL on this. Let the kiddies learn the hard way.
sebastienb
May 28th, 2009 1:14 pmGreat for inspiration!
DMC
May 29th, 2009 2:00 amYeah, pretty boring stuff mostly, and almost all of these look exactly the same.
Also, just to be pedantic, most of them aren’t floral either, they’re decorative, and none of them serve any purpose.
Form has to follow function. If you don’t know that, you shouldn’t be designing anything.
Fernanda
May 29th, 2009 3:28 amNice work, but can I make a suggestion? I think you should link the illustrations to the artist’s website, not to any blog. And many of these illustrations are from Si Scott…
Becky
May 30th, 2009 7:04 amI’m in loooove. Fantastic list. I was going to suggest Yulia if you didn’t have her’s, but you do, which makes this list even more awesome. Thanks for sharing!
speak
May 30th, 2009 6:02 pmI am a fan of julia brodskaya and her work is exquisite, i love the white materialshe uses in the magic lphoto.
Silvana
June 3rd, 2009 9:17 amBuenísimo!
Ashely Adams : Sticker Printing
June 11th, 2009 10:49 pmWhat a marvelous list! It’s simply fascinating. Floral designs always come across as enigmatic and have a certain air of mystery and hypnotic beauty about them. I’m sure that some of these designs took a considerable amount of time and effort to be created. But the end-effect more than justifies the hardship! They are beautiful!
Sophie y
June 16th, 2009 1:45 amThere all absolutly amazing, im a really big fan of floral patterns and at the moment im completing my gcse art work. I really like how youve done them all!
weberica
July 4th, 2009 12:11 pmFascinating ! I’ve got floral typography on my website as well
ivalki
July 9th, 2009 1:26 amIda Aalen thanks for the Rosemaling info. Neat stuff :)
karan
July 20th, 2009 11:27 amawesome work !!! I love typo!!
Kaan
August 12th, 2009 4:43 pmI “hate” seeing these kind of post. Why god didnt give me 25% of these people creativity :)
good post!
Manish
August 12th, 2009 10:55 pmreally awesome one , excellence creativity, if i can do it , great work of creativity.
Khan Istikhar
February 26th, 2010 5:02 amHi,
Can anybody give me above Typography Tutorials.
Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Ill be very much thankful to all.
Thanks
evelina
May 27th, 2010 1:20 amFantastic! I wish if there were any tutorials how did they create floral typography…
Noskill1343
November 18th, 2010 10:29 pmAwesome collection… I love it :D
Badreddine
May 1st, 2011 5:30 pmI really like this collection, awesome artworks… Thanks a lot :)