i love your new signature

tell us all about it

It's kind of a long story. I'm happy you like my signature. I saw this font on a poster and searched for a font like it. I subscribe to a fonts newsgroup in the Annex Cafe and posted it there hoping someone would recognize the font. Someone in the ng said it was probably done that way manually rather than a font like that existing. This is the image I put up in the newsgroup.


I played with Gimp's text tool and worked until I came up with a similar style. I learned a bit about the Text tool while I was at it.

I used Times New Roman font (really, it's a very nice font even though it seemed that every word processor used it as the default font and I got tired of it in documents). Try making something with it with the font enlarged quite a bit. The serifs are very gracefully made.

This is my first experiment doing it. Instead of using the underline in the text editor, I used the Paths tool to make the underline and stroked it.


I started by making the font with all caps, selected the letters, two different sets, one at a time, except for the O's and shrank them a little and underlined them in the text editor. After getting them re-sized and underlined, I selected the smaller letters with the Rectangle Select tool, cut and pasted them to new layers. Had to do it for both sets of small caps and merged the two layers. Then I positioned them higher by using the up arrow key with the Move Tool.

I really love the way I can manipulate text with the new text editor.

After it was all done in black, I did alpha to selection and shrank the selection by 2 and filled with the pattern. I put the rainy bg in it because it rains here on the coast a lot.

Hope this all makes sense. I really didn't expect to make such a long post but it does take some doing. It's not hard to do, just has a lot of steps.

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interesting and i love long background stories !

i do text editing a lot too, so i do feel everything you write

the main question (well at least for me) has been unanswered:
how did you make the pattern inside the text ?

Oh, that pattern is one I made a few years ago and I'm not sure I even made it in Gimp. I've attached the pattern if you'd like to have it.

I looked in the Fedora repositories and see that there is a program named Kolour Paint and that is the name of the pattern I made so I must have used that to make the pattern.

that looks really great, molly !!
wouldnt expect such a nice result, when you look at the original pattern

i smell some serious inspiration coming up

I like the colourfulness of it, really nice

This font looks like Caslon http://www.911fonts.com/font/download_C ... _12933.htm
or Caslon Old Face http://www.font-db.com/fonts/search/Caslon+Old+Face+/1
btw.Cool signature O.

Thanks Pogo. I was not looking for the font in particular. I was looking for a font that the lower case was smaller caps than the upper case. There are fonts like that. I wanted a font that had small caps for the lower case and they were positioned to have the tops of the lower case on the same level as the tops of the upper case which is larger.

Here is a font with that configuration, SF Comic Script. As you can see the font is all caps but the lower case letters are caps, smaller, and elevated. http://www.dafont.com/sf-comic-script.f ... an&psize=l

I wanted a more conventional small caps font with the lower case elevated as it is in the SF Comic Script font. As it turned out, I used Times New Roman and manually re-sized capital letters and elevated them. The Caslon font you posted was used to make the ChildreN image, but were manipulated as I did the TNR font. That's what I used for my signature. I wanted a font like it to have it already configured with the lower case caps elevated to the top of the upper case caps.

I hope I have made myself clear. I went ahead and did one using Caslon and it works very nicely.


This has been quite an adventure for me trying to make myself clear and explain what I was looking for.

Ok,all clear.For example Trajan,beautiful classic font. (this font aligns to bottom)
http://fontzone.net/font-details/Trajan/

By the way, Pogo, in my search I found a font named Pogo. Attached it below.

nice effect molly

do you have a link to the tutorial, pls ?!

BTW I didn't make that, it came with the tute. I couldn't figure out the alternate steps to take with GIMP..
glossy emblem text tutorial

Oh - you mean "the movie font"





-Rob A>

Wow.Thank you for the new signature!

This video is obsolete does not contain last "Trajan" hit.LoL

You are very welcome. I didn't expect for you to use it as your sig, and I feel honored that you did. I just wanted to put up a demo of the Pogo font.