Wed May 12, 2004 2:42 am
@vivahispania - nope, but star trek fonts are readily available. There are so many fans of the series it only took a handful of designer-types to actually get obsessive about it and bingo, here's every star trek font you've ever dreamed of. They're all pretty useless too me as they tend to be low quality, but to the general enthusiast, you can do no wrong. Saying that, I once charged a guy £2000 for designing a new logo for a well known food manufacturer - and I was hungover so I took the Klingon letter "F", twisted it slightly, stuck it in a small black circle and bish bash bosh there's ya logo mate 
nice work if you can get it 
@mustang - lol. I know I know. Fonts are the foundation of my work though. I have a collection of about 5000 high quality fonts, and about another 2000 lower quality ones. However when you're using them day in day out, you tend to get "favourites", the one's which you know are good quality and look good in every application. Every designer will have 2 or 3 favourite Serif, Sans Serif and CAPS only fonts....besides, it saves you flicking through the 5000+ other fonts every time you want to give your client a new header or button. Nerdy I know, but hey, thats my job
@taw - Gill Sans...always a crowd pleaser Its damn difficult to explain what you like about a font though isn't it? I've been asked on more than one occasion to "justify" my use of a font...and after a couple of minutes of explaining why you like the tail on the "g", or how the spacing of the "M" and the "W" is a bit tighter than normal, I end up shrugging my shoulders and saying "err...because i like it...its easy on my eye"
@esky - lol. I have that feeling almost every day Seriously though, you're a creative guy, we've seen some of your work, we've had conversations via email...you should get yourself a couple of nice fonts in photoshop - render them out and see what effects you can get. Fonts aren't just for text....they can be the foundation of a great design...in the end, they're just interesting shapes right? Try it!
nice work if you can get it
@mustang - lol. I know I know. Fonts are the foundation of my work though. I have a collection of about 5000 high quality fonts, and about another 2000 lower quality ones. However when you're using them day in day out, you tend to get "favourites", the one's which you know are good quality and look good in every application. Every designer will have 2 or 3 favourite Serif, Sans Serif and CAPS only fonts....besides, it saves you flicking through the 5000+ other fonts every time you want to give your client a new header or button. Nerdy I know, but hey, thats my job
@taw - Gill Sans...always a crowd pleaser
Its damn difficult to explain what you like about a font though isn't it? I've been asked on more than one occasion to "justify" my use of a font...and after a couple of minutes of explaining why you like the tail on the "g", or how the spacing of the "M" and the "W" is a bit tighter than normal, I end up shrugging my shoulders and saying "err...because i like it...its easy on my eye"
@esky - lol. I have that feeling almost every day
Seriously though, you're a creative guy, we've seen some of your work, we've had conversations via email...you should get yourself a couple of nice fonts in photoshop - render them out and see what effects you can get. Fonts aren't just for text....they can be the foundation of a great design...in the end, they're just interesting shapes right? Try it!
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