New Free Font for you! Rovetti Print…
January 20, 2009
Man, I can't stop with the free stuff!
Yeah, here it is in all of it’s glory… my first foray into the world of type! Criticisms and all the rest are welcome… so go and download it… it over here at:
http://rovettidesign.com/2009/01/rovetti-print-a-new-free-font-for-you/
Let me know what you think, and whether you use it in anything cool? Want a cool tool? Want to know how to make them? Ask me, and I’ll blog about it (that is, if I have any idea how to do it). Anything from making custom brushes, displacement maps, custom gradients, styles, actions… you name it. I’m ready for questions! Just contact me here, or at www.rovettidesign.com. Ok, that’s it from your rusty, trusty, and loving web chair for now. Now go get that font and do something with it!! Boo yaah!
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1. Michael Niggel | January 23, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Not to put down your efforts or the quality of your work here, but I can’t ever bring myself to use a font for either a handwriting or grunge effect. When you use a font for this, every character has the exact same appearance as every other matching character. Perhaps I’m too critical, but it bothers me when something that is supposed to have a random quality to it is reproduced the same way every time.
2. Stephen Rovetti | January 23, 2009 at 5:49 pm
@Michael- I hear what you’re saying… but think outside the box…. you’re a designer!
It’s only limited by how hard you want to work on a design that uses handwritten or grunge fonts. There are a bunch of applications that you can use to skew or edit the fonts to give each character a bit of extra tweak or tilt, which will easily help avoid any “in your face” redundancy. Yes, it does take a bit of time and work…
If you use the font in Illustrator, convert it to paths and pull at the shapes.
If you use Photoshop, maybe liquify it a bit, or apply a brush to it that will trick the viewer’s eye.
The sky’s the limit when if comes to this kind of thing. I just look at these fonts as an element of a design; they shouldn’t be locked into the black and white usage of typing it into your project and letting it rest there. Depending on what you’re doing, they shouldn’t be used for more than a few sentences. I wouldn’t expect a book to be written with the font, just maybe a title, a callout, side notes, etc. These fonts can work really well when used for posters, postcards, ads, and the like.
It’s too bad you can’t bring yourself to use fonts like these… I’ve had great results bringing unique fonts like these to projects, and my clients have loved having the different twist and unique feel. In the end, if they’re happy… I’m happy. And paid.
3. Michael Niggel | January 23, 2009 at 7:48 pm
It’s not that I won’t ever use something that looks similar. Since I’m going to spend the effort using the tools and techniques to get a more random result, I find it quicker and easier to create the content from scratch in the first place.