Comments on: Making a Brand for Yourself

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:05:58 +0000

I was curious if Vina did her design by hand? I’ve been contemplating weather or not to integrate do the font and design by hand.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:34:53 +0000

In my opinion, I believe that all fonts are made specifically for a certain purpose. You can mess with the spacing, the boldness, the positions, and can even cut them into pieces or put a texture on them. In that way you CAN manipulate them. However, here’s a picture of what I’m meaning by stretching and skewing:

http://bit.ly/bQQMVn

As you can see from the examples, the fonts gets fatter, thinner, or stretched. And I believe if you wanted to go for a fatter font or a thinner and condensed font look, then you can definitely find a font that’s made to look like it, rather than forcing a font to act in a way it’s not supposed to act.

In my opinion doing that to fonts makes the font ruined. Perhaps other writers have different opinions, and if you would like to share those articles, I’ll be happy to read and see their views as well. But you can see that stretching and skewing in the way I said above looks really bad in some sense.

P.S. Of course my examples are a little exaggerated, but perhaps I should reword in saying, you may stretch and skew, but there is a real fine-line to it. Unless you’re going for that effect, then go for it.

Thanks for your comment, stella.

By: stella

stella — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:59:33 +0000

nice post – interested in this because I’m redesigning my site / logo etc. Curious that you recommend NOT stretching or skewing fonts whereas other writers say DO manipulate the font. Makes me a little confused.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:27:10 +0000

I’ll be more than happy to help you out. Just contact me, and we’ll talk about what we can do for you.

By: t ussery

t ussery — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:15:11 +0000

I like this post can you help me with my brand