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Great stuff.
The reason I had "and" was to tie things tightly to the URL, but I like the "&" variations too.
My favourites are Jens' brass on green and Chris' (webitect). Jens' has the 'long and thin' profile that fits best with the existing site branding.
I have a few more days to experiment before I need to prepare signs for a show.
Thanks again.
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I think your solution is very elegant. I always like to play one font off another.
I would make the BRICKS font really chunky to play off the elegance of the script.
I used Shelly Volante for the script, Gill Sans Ultra Bold for Bricks, and Garmond Italic for the ampersand.
Gary
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Thanks to Gary P's Webzealot Workbook Page 3, here is my shot. (I know I'm breaking one of my own parameters!) The blocks are some of the colours that it needs to work over.
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your bricks look more like wood, and the brass is somewhat pale as if you've had too much fog the last months in the UK ;-}
BTW, I've checked your site - you guys have weird windows. Like in the country with the round door knobs - the guillotine type things to chop off fingers, hands, heads.
And your brick page is quite interesting as well. But overall it's not clear to me what products you are trading with or what kind of service you offer...?
Anyway, this is just off topic. Take a pic from a real nice brickwall and use it as a texture - but make it a bit larger to avoid the wood effect.
jens
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Even if the advice-seeker doesn't like some suggestions, they are really helpful because they clarify the parameters of the problem. So thanks everyone. If you work on your own as I do, this forum is the BEST place for immediate and helpful ideas and comments.
Thinking about it overnight:
1. I want to stick with "and"
2. I like Gary's conflicting fonts, but with a touch less conflict
3. I like Chris' Edwardian script; for a single word it is clearly legible
4. Mags: I need to work within the box - otherwise I will have to rework the website in a big way!
5. I like Gary's suggestion of large and small capitals
6. I may use the brass and brick fills in some applications but I like the simplicity of flat colour
The second set has a flat bevel size 2pix, contrast 86%. I like these!
And on the practicalities, they export as GIFs with the coloured backgrounds well (<9k filesize). I tried making them transparent to sit over a table cell with bgcolor but I run into the fuzzy edge problem.
Thanks once again for your inspiration.
Yes, we do have windows that chop your head off if the ropes break! Bricks and Brass sells nothing - it is an information site, but the money is *supposed* to come from paid entries in the Products and Services directory. Wry grin.
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my vote gets no. 4 (unbevelled), nice chunky brick font (i would (! - what do i know!) try reducing the tracking a bit to tighten up the 'Bricks'), best contrast of fonts.
just a suggestion, but i think 4 MIGHT also look good if you bevelled the brass (not the brick though) and with the 'and' make it...can't think of the right word "incut",
...just my humble opinion!
Mags
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...and another approach - including the 'and'. 'Disguised' in a square... and a b/w background.
jens
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http://jens.highspeedweb.net
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But I have a good font called "Dungeon" (or Dungeon Blocks Filled).
Here is my all caps attempt.
Dale
Why, I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir, because I’m not myself, you know...
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How about entwining the "and" and Brass?
Mickie