Font and Page Layout Challenge

[Acorn]

I felt a bird's eye view might be interesting;



Acorn

[Gare]

Woah, Acorn, I love that! It's quite attention-getting, much more so than the text in the letter!

Way to go, man!

Now, Keith rightly noted that the amounts seem a tad unrealistic. Okay, snicker, snicker...the whole thing seems a tad unrealistic, but seriously, folks, do we want to mess with the grammar, wording, in essence play Copy Editor, or is that going too far and ruining this poor Barrister's style and presentation he or she worked so hard on?

Might we begin with a better choice of typeface?

Are there italic and Condensed versions of Comic Sans?

Putting out cookies for Santa soon,

Gary

[mwenz]

...
Are there italic and Condensed versions of Comic Sans?

Well, not condensed, but there is a better Comic Sans available:

[Gare]

Thanks, Mike.

You know, a lot of times, successful advertising is a medium of exaggeration. With that, I dug up a typeface called Kid's Crayon, and I think it better illustrates the plight of this Bannister:

[Acorn]

Gare, I think you've well and truly bannistered this.
The trouble is I'm now more likely to believe the scam!

Acorn

[Gare]

Well, from Moderator to Moderator, let me put this to you:

Should we Ban(nister) this fellow, or
should we Bar(rister) them?

Or should I just start a new thread based on some of the junk mail I receive?



Let's flip a five million dollar coin and call it...

[mwenz]

Love the pointing fingers, Gary!

Is that up on Creative Market?

Mike

[Gare]

Love the pointing fingers, Gary!

Is that up on Creative Market?

Mike

Thanks, Mike, but no, the direction hands are not for sale on Creative Msrket as a model, because I relied heavily on some geometry straight out of Smith Micro's Poser software. The imagery itself is mine; the camera angle, lighting, the idea, the Photoshop work in post production.

It would make a swell poster, though, wouldn't it? A poster I could own.

I'm about halfway through building about a score or two of gears that actually can work together, as models for my Little Shoppe of Meshes. I've also had to rely on CorelDRAW a lot because Xara's Polygon tool, regardless of how many years I've asked for enhancements, produces limited, fairly static multi-sided shapes. I need to be able to edit a 12 point, or an 8 point polygon to produce stuff like this within my lifetime. none of these gears takes more than 5 minutes to make.



Am I being to subtle here in my request?



All I'm trying to do over there is to provide something a potential customer needs, probably can model themselves, but either doesn't have the time, or didn't think of the artistic treatment I use. Just simple, popular themes. That's why I keep the prices like ice cream in Alaska.



-g

[mwenz]

Yes, it would make a wonderful poster. Which is how I envisioned using it. Don't know for whom or when other than myself, but the concept is great!

[Gare]

Mike, check your email in about 5 minutes (do we share a Dropbox?).

Call it a Christmas present, mate!

My Best,

Gary

Okay, back to on-topic: layouts. How do we feel about this one, given what I had to work with?



Choice of symmetry rather than asymmetry? Choice of fonts? Emphasis on what? Use of color/latex?