Tattoo type help
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- formula0
can you explain why you're wanting this particular quote across your chest? you don't have to, just curious.
- its over his heart i'm guessing.instrmntl
- is heart on the left side? I thought it was mostly in the middle :Pjfletcher
- mostly in the middle, slightly weighted leftmonospaced
- jfletcher0
@formula - sure. and not *across the chest, on one side... I originally thought that, but felt a bit too hipster for me :)
I'm not pulling it from the context of R&J, but I like the idea that I have to keep moving to live, keep having new experineces, and generally always learn... as opposed to being stagnent, staying in one place, and missing out on life.I thought the quote illustrated that well for me.
- jfletcher0
the other thing I was thinking about was "your effort to remain what you are is what limits you"... that might be next in a few years.
- instrmntl0
I totally dig it, but to me that script seems a little more old western/old susana style. That's not a bad thing at all. If anything, it has a Billy The Kid look to it which I think is rad. Again, its just my interpretation.
- ********0
Lovely, be happy with your decision and love your life man!
- formula0
See if your family has alternates to connect some of the letters. The O and N in "gone" look awkward, as does most of the kerning, not natural, looks like a font. It's meant to be a script so I think you should try to connect some/most of the letters, give it a more natural feel.
I don't know, I've always been weird about fonts that are meant to look handwritten. If i use them (rarely) I'll create outlines and tweak them until they look handwritten. Easier to print it out, trace it, scan it in, export paths to Illy, and tweak away.
It's worth the effort because a) as a designer you should just care and b) it's gonna be on your skin for life.
- formula0
P22 has some decent handwritten fonts to start with. I've used Cezanne and Declaration a few times. Useful do to the multiple Alternates and Swashes they offer.
- ********0
It's quality; not quantity. I do love historical remembrance. I'm perplexed by this. Many of my friends say, "get a tattoo that means something to you...". Yet, does it have to be something that means something to "you", or should it means something that "means" something...?
- dragonfruit0
@formula;
its from Memento and it says "find him and kill him" (sammy jenkins that is).
- instrmntl0
check ur emails
- jfletcher0
@formula - what you see is a combination of 2 of the font styles to what I liked. I had to play with the kerning a bit since some spaces between words were very odd....
I looked at the scipt fonts on the site... overall I love them, but based on the rules my tattoo person gave me, they'll run together. While I wany something I love, I want something that won't look bad in 10 years (assuming I take care of it).... hence the one that it a bit more typographic.
- jfletcher0
what was the main font on momento dude? the "find him and kill him"?
- monNom0
these ligatures and swashes would be perfect:
http://www.pentagon.fr/#/projet/…
- CygnusZero40
Cool, but I think that you should get some shading around it, just so that it doesnt look like someone wrote on you with a sharpie.