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Redesigning my site.
over 2 years ago
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₍˄ุ.͡˳̫.˄ุ₎
is there any way to tame the letters on the arc? I always have a hard time with it but yeah it makes the letters seem jittery.
This is lovely, Josh. I look forward to seeing it.
over 2 years ago
Yeah, those letters are just about the only thing I'm still struggling with. I think I'm just gonna do them one by one since this will just be an image.
over 2 years ago
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₍˄ุ.͡˳̫.˄ุ₎
Did you do the lovely pattern? I love it. :)
over 2 years ago
Ha, I wish! Snagged that from here: http://www.theinspirationgallery.com/wallpaper/damask/wp_damask_137.htm
over 2 years ago
One-by-one is the way I've solved it. Otherwise, the staggering drives me completely nuts because I've found no way to prevent it.
If I'm to believe this logo, you are intensely aware Josh.
over 2 years ago
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Dan Mall
That's the nicest I've seen your mark yet. Beautiful work, Josh.
over 2 years ago
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Gerren Lamson
Nice chunky slab serif.
over 2 years ago
This looks really great!
As far as the curved text, I have always gravitated toward Illustrator for text effects - really easy to tweak kerning and baseline shift etc. Use the type on a path tool and once it is to your liking copy and paste it into photoshop (as a smart object) that way you can just double click on the icon in the layers palette if you have to make any additional changes.
over 2 years ago
Erik - Pretentiously so!
Dan - Thanks! It's definitely an improvement on the mess that is the old version.
Gerren - The font is Giza and I'm loving it, too.
John - Thanks for the tip, but I did just that when creating this design (Illustrator is my primary design tool). Still came out kinda funky. I've since reworked it by hand.
over 2 years ago
@Joshua, strange . . . I've not experienced that issue.
Here's an idea: Type your your line of text normally, make sure it is selected, then go to Object > Envelope Distort > Make with Warp
Choose Arc as the Style, click on Horizontal, and set the bend percentage to 13 or 14% . . . should result in a nice smooth curve for you.
over 2 years ago
John - YES! That worked. Thank you thank you!!
Oddly enough, the original method works if I scale the size of the text up. For some reason, at the small size I used, it just gets weird.
over 2 years ago
@Joshua - Sweet! glad it worked!
I tried to duplicate your problem on my system and like you said I found the issue occurred when scaling the text. So you might be able to simply convert your text to outlines once you have it the way you want. Then scale it 'till your hearts content!
over 2 years ago
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Nick Slater
these are sick!
about 1 year ago