Fancy text.

farss wrote on 11/27/2004, 3:11 AM
I'd like do some text for a DVD menu but using some very arty text. Know that doesn't sound very specific, I mean the kind where say the first character on the line extends down several lines.
Now I know none of the standard fonts are going to do the job so I guess I'm up for creating my own. I guess technically one could draw them in PS but that sounds mighty difficult and probably it'd be easier witha tablet.
So two questions, anyone know of a program for doing this, and secondly if I was to try to find someone who specialised in that kind of work what would I be looking for, a scribe maybe?

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Grazie wrote on 11/27/2004, 3:17 AM
" first character on the line extends down several lines" This is called a Dropped Captial or Dropped Cap. You can find this "format" in MS WORD What you are looking for now is a "first" character" for this arty effect .. . This sounds like a Christmas card illumination type thingy . .I can knock you one up? Yeah?


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farss wrote on 11/27/2004, 3:50 AM
Grazie,
take a look at the Linotype Zapfino sample I sent you.
Maybe what I've seen done on a lot of posters and book jackets etc is just a very creative use of existing fonts. I guess with PS you can transform one character into just about anything. You're right what I was talking about is a dropped capital but this goes way beyong that, they may strech one character on the middle of a word on line 1 so it becomes the first character of line two.
And I still don't know what you call someone who does that kind of work, graphic artist doesn't sound right, 'font fiddler' maybe?
Bob.
Grazie wrote on 11/27/2004, 4:10 AM
Caligrapher is the old world term for a scribe and ink . . nowadays? Font artist? Font designer? . .all sorts of names . . .


. .gonna watch Oz get hammered by us Poms at 2:00pm . . seeyah!
TorS wrote on 11/27/2004, 7:20 AM
We hardly have typographers anymore, due to the invention of the PC. But that would be the correct term for the person you're looking for. I'm glad Grazie would help you - he's a fine graphic artist.
By the way, another name for the dropped cap is initial. That word is used in German and the Scandinavian languages and (I believe) is understood also in UK/US.
I don't think there's a proper name for the letter that extends through two lines and becomes part of a word in both of them. Was used in logos etc. A bit old.fashioned I think, but then it just may have reached its return time.
Tor
wolfbass wrote on 11/27/2004, 7:07 PM
Gee Grazie!

The Poms got beaten by we Aussies. In both Union AND League. Get that up ya! :0

Grazie wrote on 11/27/2004, 11:24 PM
What a most humiliating and embarrassing mess! . . Oz played very well AND as a Team too! We deserved everything we got . . we made simple errors and forced and unforced ones to boot .. . AND our kicking game shouldn't even have been called that. However, to add insult to injury, we pulled back a brace of scoring just after the half that identified what we COULD do ! Then why on Earth was this not evident in the rest of the 70 mins? We were bereft of ideas and incapable of stringing some of the simplest things together - just unbelievable! Why were we playing so "flat"? We have much to reflect on . . can't speak about League . . I have no expertise other than to say saying VERY WELL DONE, against, again, a team "boasting" so much and capable of delivering the goods. No, this weekend most definitely "buried" our MOST Glorious Hour last year!

Now I must suffer the ignominy of our Sunday back pages . . I suspect the broadsheets may even plaster the Front pages with your Wins! just to rub it in . . .

Oz, I salute thee!

. . . however, we'll be back . . .

Grazie