Thin to THICK
June 3rd 2011 05:46
Thin to THICK
A technique
for using Drop Shadow
to modify fonts.
First a warning! This does not work with all fonts! However since I've had successful experiements with several I thought I'ld share the results.
There are some fonts that dont work as well in upper case or large font sizes. Papyrus is one.
The word Thin is lower case and I changed the First letter to a upper case in a slighter larger font size to show you the difference.
THICK however isnt just upper case and larger.
What did I change? I thought using vector svgs would take too long since I would have to adjust the paths on the nodes of each individual letter.
I opened GIMP and created the word THICK and moved the text box then I opened Drop - Shadow. USE the xy co-ordinates to create shadow in the same color as the text at 100 %. at -1. Do the same thing again at 1 co-ordinates and 100%. Do it again at 1 and 2 and then at 2 and # at 95 %.
Or even more steps.
You do also try this in color or use lower percentages on each larger shadow.
Here's an earlier effort that's not yet right but interesting and promising if like me you like playing with letter shapes.
This isn't professional level Typography but I think you'll find you can create some interesting effects for DIY cards and web headers and page titles.
Also there's the advantage of being able to change all the letters at all or just individual letters! Anyway treat yourself to the enjoyable challenge of seeing how you can use this to alter letter shapes and fonts! Hope my effort gives you some useful ideas?!
A technique
for using Drop Shadow
to modify fonts.
"Thin to THICK with Papyrus Font
First a warning! This does not work with all fonts! However since I've had successful experiements with several I thought I'ld share the results.
There are some fonts that dont work as well in upper case or large font sizes. Papyrus is one.
The word Thin is lower case and I changed the First letter to a upper case in a slighter larger font size to show you the difference.
THICK however isnt just upper case and larger.
What did I change? I thought using vector svgs would take too long since I would have to adjust the paths on the nodes of each individual letter.
I opened GIMP and created the word THICK and moved the text box then I opened Drop - Shadow. USE the xy co-ordinates to create shadow in the same color as the text at 100 %. at -1. Do the same thing again at 1 co-ordinates and 100%. Do it again at 1 and 2 and then at 2 and # at 95 %.
Or even more steps.
You do also try this in color or use lower percentages on each larger shadow.
Here's an earlier effort that's not yet right but interesting and promising if like me you like playing with letter shapes.
thin to thick example 2
This isn't professional level Typography but I think you'll find you can create some interesting effects for DIY cards and web headers and page titles.
Also there's the advantage of being able to change all the letters at all or just individual letters! Anyway treat yourself to the enjoyable challenge of seeing how you can use this to alter letter shapes and fonts! Hope my effort gives you some useful ideas?!
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