June 2015 Xara Xone Giveaway - Gare’s Dimensional Drop Caps -

[Gare]

Oh, Rik, I was just kidding a little before (hopefully) I get the good news this morning from the surgeon that I'm good to use a cane instead of the blasted walker! It means I can then take the stairs and we have a 55" TV set that needs some watching.

An initial cap is good as a rising cap or a drop cap, and you, forget the word "technically" for a moment: even expert typographers refer to an initial cap at large point size as a "drop cap", just as we call bitmap resolution "dots per inch", when in reality, scans are "samples per inch", and paint programs use "pixels per inch." We favor simple ideas and simple speech these days! :(

And coincidentally, I'm as happy with the C design as I am the L. Some characters were more difficult to realize than others. I had a ball with Q, not that it shows. :)

Would anyone like to venture forth and draw one of these bitmap drop caps? You are all free to do what you please with them, as long as you don't take credit for their invention, try to sell them, or use them as a promotion you repost. This is what Creative Commons licensing essentially says, by the way.

I want our membership to have the broadest possible usage of them. They took me long enough to invent (several of them on a sketch pad in the hospital!); you might as well get the most mileage out of them.

Enjoy!

[stygg2003]

Nice work Rik, well laid out and I do prefer the L in #5 fits nicely with the text.

Stygg

[Gare]

[Rik]

Thanks for your input and comments, Gary and stygg.

Gary: When you say, "Would anyone like to venture forth and draw one of these bitmap drop caps?"
Do you mean:
1. Come up with something new to replace the letters.
(Which would require quite a bit of imagination. And more often than not, it's extremely difficult to better an original.)
or
2. Recreate the letters (which would be quite a challenge).

[Gare]

Now that you mention it, Rik, I'd invite anyone to visualize a more fitting design for any of the characters, but I meant, "Recreate an original using vector shapes." By vectorizing them, they can be scaled to fit any size. The bitmap can go up to about 5" on a side if you use poor resolution like an inkjet printer.

Oh, just have fun with them and don't listen to me any more! :)

-g

[Rik]

Now that you mention it, Rik, I'd invite anyone to visualize a more fitting design for any of the characters, but I meant, "Recreate an original using vector shapes." By vectorizing them, they can be scaled to fit any size. The bitmap can go up to about 5" on a side if you use poor resolution like an inkjet printer.

Oh, just have fun with them and don't listen to me any more!

-g

I'm normally up for a challenge, but, that's a very difficult one. Your designs are unique, to say the least.
If anything springs to mind, I'll try and draw it!

[stygg2003]

I'm normally up for a challenge, but, that's a very difficult one. Your designs are unique, to say the least.
If anything springs to mind, I'll try and draw it!

You go first Rik, I'll follow your lead! What me chickening out? dead right I am Rik, that's a challenge indeed

Stygg