HTF Didot Letterforms…

I was working on a wordmark for a client today using the HTF Didot type family and I got sidetracked because I was so incredibly mesmerized by its letterforms. I started turning them on end, backwards, and upside down to take them out of the expected so that my eyes could better appreciate the shapes and the lines. Take the lightest set of letters, for example: at first glance, it almost looks Arabic or Thai or something. Really crazy. Crazy beautiful.