Last week I came across an interesting video and article that lead me to create this reminder postcard. It has been a while since I created a fontplay like this. They are fun to make and easy to do. You simply combine a photo with a font and quote you like. Email me if you [...]

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August 10th, 2009

I took the photo of the lone fishing person at Oat Hill Lake in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and then one day I got the idea for the quote. Looking for a suitable font lead me to one called Waterlily. I is available as a free download here.

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August 10th, 2009

After blogging about the cool way this font was created at the end of July 09, I just had to find a way to use it. Inspiration struck after I had the opportunity to take this, for me rare, sunset photo. I live below a hill and get to see sunrises, but no sunsets. The [...]

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August 10th, 2009

A photo of wispy clouds I took last week, combined with a tweet from Carol Tuttle lead to this fontplay. The font is available as a free download here.

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August 10th, 2009

When I heard this line it gave me the idea to see if I could create a graphic that would make the text look like waves or water flowing. The end result is this fontplay. The Lithos Pro font is available as a free download here.

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August 10th, 2009

Continuing my experimentation with scanned envelope patterns I created a second fontplay with an Abraham Hicks quote. The Harrington font is available as a free download here. l

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August 10th, 2009

While experimenting with scanned envelope patterns I came across this quote and in no time this simple fontplay was created. Eurostile is a commercial font that I got with  program, Lithos Pro can be downloaded for free here.

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August 10th, 2009

What is a FontPlay? The short answer: it is a way to use and show off all those fonts us fontoholics have collected. FontPlay was started by the person who created the www.fontplay.com site. There are font newsgroups like alt.binaries.fonts and annexcafe.fonts (news.annexcafe.com) where you can show off your creations. Those newsgroups are also the [...]

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