Fonts SIG Request

Tyler Carpenter spaz926 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 03:35:02 UTC 2008


I hope I am sending this to the right place!
I love the font

On 6/26/08, Stojan Dimitrovski <sdimitrovski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was playing around today and I made this banner for the Fonts SIG
> request up in DesignService. The idea behind it is that before computers
> there were typewriters and presses. They used little metal letters which
> when covered with ink/carbon they left an impression on the paper. So I
> tired to recreate that with Inkscape. Of course they aren't a full
> representation of the metal-type (something like Linotype), but close
> enough (it's hard to recreate metal with Inkscape).
>
> I used MgOpen Modata for all fonts. The first letters are latin but used
> in many, many alphabets. The other ones are from the Malayalam alphabet
> (Why? Because I think they are one of the most stylish letters ever
> written!). I do not know their meaning or anything, but they look very
> good.
>
> Hope you like it and please do not be shy to beat me up if you don't
> like it (make sure you say why you don't like it).
>
> Thanks!
>
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