More than just a pretty font '23

[Skinnyhouse]

Somewhere to promote the use of custom fonts perhaps...

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Parrot image from openclipart.org

[Skinnyhouse]

Most of my custom font efforts use my FontSlab plug-in to shape the custom font text along paths...

A very simple example using another image from openclipart.

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[Skinnyhouse]

And an image from Unsplash used in this one...

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For comparison: A treatment without the path and change in size.

[Skinnyhouse]

Lightning from Unsplash...

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Using an image from Pixabay as the custom font face...

[Skinnyhouse]

Making use of images from Pixabay and Unsplash...

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Top hat from openclipart.org

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[PixLab]

Very nice Skinnyhouse

[Skinnyhouse]

Thankyou Pix.

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Inspired by PixLab's contribution...

Link to PixLab's post

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[Issabella]

What nice fonts and transformation.

[Skinnyhouse]

Issabella

An anonymous saying and a corruption of a song title by Bucks Fizz (from a looooooooooooong time ago)...

Edit: Thanks to Erisian for pointing out that the song was by Brotherhood of Man. My excuse - I may have been enjoying too much fizz at the time of listening to the radio!

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[Skinnyhouse]

You may all be pleased to know that I have abandoned my attempt at creating an AI quotation generator - known informally as ChatButt - after disappointing outcomes when providing it with information about famous boxing remarks:

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With apologies to Muhammad Ali fans.

[Skinnyhouse]

Hijacked the idea from a recent post by Ella...

Infinity symbol thread

Using only custom font tools

[Issabella]

I like your infinity symbol. The text is great, too.