Bouton's Xara Stuff: Volume 3

[Gare]

You're welcome and here is one link to the Clipart forum that has my LOVE iconic design as a giveaway:

download LOVE Xara filoe
-g

[Gare]

This is more of a Clipart gift rather than a neat Gary Drawing.

But I drew it in Xara, I use it in Xara so tough ░░░░ ... darts




I either auto-traced copies of materials or drew each one by hand. I did not break a glyph out of any existing fonts.

The locked text descriptors (converted to curves) either reference from which font I "adopted" where applicable, or I suggest a typeface that will work well with a specific ampersand glyph.

Get inspired!

[Boy]

That's a very nice collection, Gare, and it's most gracious of you to share it here. Thank you!

[ss-kalm]

Thank You Gary.

[Gare]

You're welcome, folks—

Clipart is something that's pretty lame not to share. I get freemiums and freeware fonts and photography all over the web, and I'm just trying to balance the scales a little, as it were.

And to drum up a little ▓▓▓▓▓ traffic, because otherwise, tg is getting BOR-ING. 🌞



-g

[Acorn]

And to drum up a little ▓▓▓▓▓ traffic, because otherwise, tg is getting BOR-ING.

It's boring because Xara is failing us in not engaging and assuaging concerns about its products, its direction and support. Rob-Xar does a great front act but without the rest of the cast showing up, all we see are curtains, metaphorical and literal.

I want the products to sing so true artists and designers can focus on their craft. Web presentation is a necessary adjunct as without the mechanism, all the art in the world would become niche.

Acorn

[Gare]

For me, acorn, I've tried to find a suitable backup program if MAGIX manages to sink Xara...have not found one.

Xara's not the only game in town, but I cannot throw away an investment of decades getting comfortable and productive. Moreover, I wrote a tutorial on how to do something I felt was not demanding, and I discovered Affinity Designer doesn't have Blends or Contours, Inkscape—admirably cobbled—is missing a few shape manipulation features, Illustrator doesn't have a color-tagging feature, CorelDRAW, in addition to being expensive and on a subscription plan...I could go on.

But won't.

Hey, I gave away some neat ampersands and really don't want to start lamenting over the very program I used to organize and refine the ampersands.

And I realize I started it.


My Best,

Gary




(Here's a good one for St. Valentine's Day)