More than just a pretty font '23

Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Sun Mar 05, 2023 6:56 am **(#1)**

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

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Parrot image from openclipart.org

Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Sun Mar 05, 2023 6:59 am **(#2)**

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 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 05, 2023 7:06 am **(#3)**

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 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 05, 2023 3:43 pm **(#4)**

Lightning from Unsplash...

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Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2023 6:23 am **(#5)**

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

Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:34 am **(#6)**

Making use of images from Pixabay and Unsplash...

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Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:24 pm **(#7)**

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Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2023 12:19 pm **(#8)**

Top hat from openclipart.org

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PixLab · **Posted:** Sat Apr 08, 2023 12:25 am **(#9)**

Very nice Skinnyhouse :clap

Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Wed Apr 12, 2023 7:12 am **(#10)**

Thankyou Pix. :bigthup

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Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:05 am **(#11)**

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Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:48 am **(#12)**

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Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Tue Apr 18, 2023 1:17 pm **(#13)**

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Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:27 am **(#14)**

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Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Sat Apr 29, 2023 1:47 am **(#15)**

Inspired by PixLab's contribution...

Link to PixLab's post

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Issabella · **Posted:** Sat Apr 29, 2023 2:10 am **(#16)**

What nice fonts and transformation. :coolthup

Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Sun May 07, 2023 3:20 am **(#17)**

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 · **Posted:** Sat May 20, 2023 2:27 am **(#18)**

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 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2023 2:11 pm **(#19)**

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

Infinity symbol thread

Using only custom font tools

Issabella · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:24 pm **(#20)**

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