The Text Tool Challenge

[iamtheblues]

Hi Hans,
I thought the original Chopperdude was great, but the animated version is brilliant. Again, really inventive. You guys certainly have a way with words.
Saludos,
Bob.

[haakoo]

Thanks Bob and Steve,
I like the input of the both of you too

I like the idea of using fonts for illustrating.
Here in the 1900-40's there was an artist(H.N.Werkman) in my hometown,
who had a printing business and used the lead font to print illustrations.

He also was a journalist,writer,painter and a keymember of an art-collective called "De Ploeg" (roughly translated the team or the plow,in Dutch the same word)
During World War 2 and executed by the Germans,maybe he'd printed work of Jewish writers?
If you like to know more about this man,go here http://www.groningermuseum.nl/index.php?id=2329

Hans

[remi]

Cool drawings. Great ideas so far!

This is a great idea for a Challenge.

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[iamtheblues]

Hi Remi,
Please excuse my extreme ignorance in all matters relating to coding, PHP or whatever, but the font is Courier, isnt it?
At least when I went to google images before posting this, all the examples of
PHP Code on the first page were what looked like Courier.
Can you give me a simple explanation of PHP coding? Words of one syllable would be good, imagine you are explaining it to a 3 year old child.
Unless of course it's made up of dashes which you have manipulated cunningly into your name. (See how dim I am?)
Saludos,
Bob.

[remi]

Hi Bob,

no problem: "PHP Code" is only a simple formatting option in this forum software, nothing more. Sometimes you want to show code in a post and then you need a simple code-section to format your text with "Courier" font, because it's better to use "Courier" to show tab indents within your code. So, you're able to create a new post and click on the icon "php" in the texteditor and this creates a short code section:

code section, formatted with Courier font 

That's all. I just needed some lines with "Courier" font to show the ASCII art. My text has nothing to do with PHP as programming language.

Remi

[iamtheblues]

Thanks for taking the time and trouble to explain that, Remi.
I've got it now.
Saludos,
Bob.

[remi]

Font: Courier - different sizes, colours and angles



Remi

[iamtheblues]

Hi Remi,
I particularly like the stylized sun in yours.

I've attached another, made from the dingbat
font Leaves, which has a potential for use as
a brush. I couldn't post the brush version here
because it would break the rules of the challenge
with the use of the Freehand and Brush Tool,
however I am in the process of posting a couple
of leaf brushes in the Xtreme Gallery.
Saludos,
Bob.

[RTK]

Lots of fun stuff here!

Hans,

Love the bike design! The animation adds even more flare to it.

Risto

[iamtheblues]

Cave painting?
Fadgod is a display font which is fairly illegible.
This tends to defeat the object of its existence.
Could the attached give it a purpose in life?