Silkscreen
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- Classification
- Ornamented, Novelty, Dot Matrix
- Original Format
- Digital
- Distributor(s)
- Kottke.org
- Tags
- pixel
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Silkscreen was designed from scratch using Adobe Photoshop 5.02 and Macromedia Fontographer 3.52 on Windows NT 4.0.
First I used the pencil tool in Photoshop to draw all of the letters. For each character, I tried to make it as skinny and short as I could. It turned out that the largest characters were 5×5 pixels (not counting the ascenders and descenders), but most were 4×5 pixels. After drawing out each character, I played around with different letterforms on several characters before finalizing each one. Then I formed the characters into short sentences to determine the spacing for each character.
After all the characters were designed in Photoshop, I drew the fonts by hand in Fontographer. I could have imported the letters as bitmaps, but I wanted to make Silkscreen as precise as possible and also wanted to learn as much as I could about Fontographer. When the characters were finished for all four fonts, I generated Windows TrueType versions of them.
I then sent the Windows TrueType versions to Ray @ theMaxx for some conversion. Ray used his copy of Fontographer to make Mac versions of Silkscreen. Thanks, Ray.
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