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Second post of super neophyete newbie Terry Lee from Memphis, Tenneesse here. Been really, really digging deep into the archives so I don't ask too many questions that have been mostly answered somewhere else in some other way. ( and I will bet you pizzas to bread crumbs I still repeat some questions.)
I feel like I have moved so quickly in the last week, from my business plan and my mission statement into materilaizing my desires into the physical, and a great deal of this is due to the enormous resourses permenating through this forum.
But about this time right now I sure could use some help from you guys and gals that have been out in the T-shirt trenches.
I got some decent designs, I got some good designs, heck in my personal illussion I even think I got some great designs for my target market.
But I get all stagnated when I go about finding something like the perfect font for my designs.
So many choices and so much experimentation and still often I am finding a nawing feeling creeping along with me that there are better fonts for these designs.
How specficially do you guys and gals go about finding the font or group of fonts that totally puts the cherry on top of your designs?
How do you personally go about choosing fonts that convey any number of sutble and subliminal or even direct and apparent effects - conveying the inspirational, the comical, the political, and the ... yada, yada, yada, ...ever endless nusinaces ... that the perfect fonts conveys with your graphic designs?
Are their any resourceful online links that you can share?
Respectfully,
Terry
"It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner."
I usually will switch fonts on a job at least 15 times before I'm happy... i don't have a method to it, i just experiment until something strikes me and says "yeah, that's it!"
I am sort of a font junkie...ok not sort of, I am...lol
I was tired of scrolling through the fonts to try and find one that looked right. With the number of fonts that I have, it was hard to remember what all of the ones that I like looked like. To fix this, I wrote a macro in MS Word that takes that words I want to use and the size I want it in and then prints that phrase at that size in every font that I have. It takes about 30 seconds to print all of it out and I can see what the type looks like in the fonts. Then I just cut and paste the ones that I like and narrow it down from there.
I found a lot of fonts at places like dafont and blambot.
As far as the actual choice of the font that I use, it's just more or less what clicks for me...
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