Toypography – A puzzle toy of type

Wonder how to connect an English word to its kanji character? Well, let Toypography tell you. Toypography, which is a combination of the word toy and typography, is a toy that consisting of fragments of separate letters that can be put together to either English or Japanese letters and characters.

Toypography is created by a Japanese typography creator group called Dainippon Type Organization. The unique features of Toypography is that Japanese expressions can be transformed into English expressions of the same meaning. For example, the picture shown below. The English word “Bird” and transformed into kanji “鳥”. Amazing isn’t it?

That is just one of the set. The picture below shows the other possibilities, like bear, fish, horse, monkey and rabbit. With the same set of puzzles, it can even transformed to characters that having the exact same meaning! This is a very fine example of creativity is limitless if you willing to think and explore.

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