graffiti font
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- surfito
please, were at?
- IloveQBN0
do a search for graffiti, I checked earlier and there was a long thread on it.
Hey surf, how is the job search going? I'd love to see more of your work.
- Ctrl_Z0
in your email box.
but I say don't fake the funk with fonts, use the pen tool my brotha!
- enobrev0
my honest reccommendation is to ask a graff artist to write out what you need.
graff fonts always look like exactly that.. a font..
hardly effective.
- surfito0
thanks a lot, i hate them too.
- Ctrl_Z0
if you feel like being lazy and it's not an important project. I have been known to combine the 3 fonts I sent you. alternate the letters that repeat, that way you get more of a natural feel.
still will be cheesy tho. get out the sharpie and warm up your scanner if my feeling.
- unknown0
Ctrl_Z do you mind mailing them to me to?
- surfito0
ok, this is whats going on, my friend, who is friends with this russian rapper, i guess he is kind of known in petersburg, but he lives here in NY, is coming out with a new CD.
she offers to do the cover only to realize that she aint that good at graffiti, and to tell you the truth its uggly.
so she comes to me for help (i dont have a scanner no more, it burned) with the scans at low rez.
i go, well, this sucks, youre better off with graffiti fonts.
so, i came here cause i have non of those fonts in my pc.
and of course, the thing sucks also with the fonts, lol.
so nothing better than a real tag, but everybody who knows me, knows i can draw, but i cant tag.
when i was a kid i felt left out cause i couldnt.
some how, this is what the guy wants.
new york skyline, with some kind of burning sky or something, it was all drawings before.
since i have 3d of skies and stuff like that, it could have a nice abstract behind the skyline, and then the tag that says mike.
if anybody is talented for graffiti, and feels like helping with the tag.
thanks in advance.the tag is MIKE.
- surfito0
never mind, i asked for help for this, but really, i dont feel like helping either.
i shouldnt be doing this favour. im busy as it is.
- unknown0
there is a GAZILLION: Check http://www.dafont.com
- unknown0
sorry ohh ok is it specific?
- unknown0
surfito, I just scribbled a quick tag and mailed you an .eps, I just couldn't bear to hear about somebody using a tag font, they are satans spawn!!
Anyway, hope it helps, post how you use it (if you do).
cheers
- surfito0
rasko, youre the best, im using it, i allready made a background and placed your tag right there.
the tag is great, i was just trying to upload it now to show it, but looks like my ftp is kind of down right now.
ill make sure you keep all the rights on your illustration so this guy doesnt turn it into a logo or something without paying you.
this is just for the cover, he can only use it once.
ill email you later about that.
- unknown0
cool, happy to help!
- joelski0
job search,IloveQBN
...err...I have given up I am starting a new company with buddy....gonna give it a go....
keaap watching this space for updates
- badzenjt0
1. If you can, or know someone who can, draw it by hand. Graffiti fonts tend to look cheesy to the trained, and even untrained observer.
2. Or, take an existing graff font and do some treatments to it in Illustrator.
3. Take digital photos of graff in your area and splice them into something new.
- doveink0
exactly what badzenjt said. besides graffiti is for those in the know. there is not one set of letters that writers use - there are styles and each word is designed to flow together. graffiti fonts remain ugly because there is no way for its designer to make the letters flow together.
its sort of like a client asking you for the 'logo font' so he can make his own. sounds retarded? so are you.
- doveink0
haha.
oops that last one slipped out. my bad.
- scrawl0
You can get a font based upon Futura 2000's hand writing at www.roblogic.com
It is down the bottom of the page.
- unknown0
just open up illustrator and use a calligraphy brush. save as .eps. bring into pshop. thats what i would do. screw tag fonts. they are so b-rated.