Organic Branding Display Alphabet

Bottom line: Don't use math or rulers to kern the letters, use your eyes. In a matter of just a few minutes, you can copy and paste the letters to spell out a customized headline or product name, apply beautiful curves and contours if desired using Adobe Illustrator's Object Envelope Distort commands , and presto, you have a lovely, unique, and custom-lettered title, a branding system or a headline. Example: a rounded capital letter 'O' extends slightly beyond the lines at both the top and bottom, and a rounded capital letter 'U' extends below the line at the bottom only. After you've positioned the lettering on a straight baseline, give it careful look. ABOUT THE DESIGNER Mott Jordan is a veteran typography designer and confirmed lettering fanatic. Experiment, and see what works. We're eagerly anticipating the day when color fonts are fully implemented in all graphic design software, and are in widespread use. And yes, it goes more quickly than you might think. Look at it from across the room if it helps. TIPS FOR GETTING A PERFECT RESULT 1 Don't forget the kerning! This extra height most prominently on bold lettering counteracts the optical illusion of rounded letters naturally appearing smaller than the rest. ORGANIC BRANDING DISPLAY ALPHABET With it's old-world charm and down-home vibe, this letter set is perfectly suited for organic & non-gmo branding. 4 The colors are editable of course, although in some cases, it may prove to be overly complicated to edit some of the multiple gradient swatches used for creating the 3-d style drop shadows and faux-metallic shine gradients. Open it up a bit when dense letters want to dovetail too tightly together. It could also work well in a circus, carnival, rodeo, country fair, restaurant or food truck context. Adobe Illustrator's Object Envelope Distort is your friend. This stand-alone vector lettering design is uniquely intricate in its use of striped contours, solid and semi-transparent gradients & drop shadows, and other eye-catching effects. Jordan is also an artist, illustrator, animator, 3D designer, and photographer. , ITC Hornpype, and ITC Verkehr, as well as a large number of limited-release freebies floating around the web, dating back to the late 1990s. 3 Try curving your words, rotate them around an arc, bend and warp them for great results. 2 If you've positioned individual vector letters before, you probably know that letters with rounded tops or bottoms need to extend a little bit below the baseline and above the cap height line. Installable versions of these color alphabets are on the longterm agenda here at Mysterylab. Close up the big wide gaps like you might see between an 'L' and an 'A'. Note: this is not an installable font. If it looks too tight or too loose, then it is. Squint at it. He has two ITC designs to his credit now administered by Monotype, Inc. This is often the difference between a good lettering design and a great one.

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Organic Branding Display Alphabet