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Psychedelic Handlettering Graphic
Published: Jun 10, 2018
Applications Supported: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
File Size: 959.98 KB
Vector
Description: Psychedelic Handlettering Graphic
PSYCHEDELIC HANDLETTERING ALPHABET
This Summer Of Love 1960s West-Coast alphabet is in the vintage style of psychedelic album covers, & posters for the Fillmore Auditorium & Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.
This new alphabet design is in the grand tradition of classic psychedelia, but has a slightly more eye-friendly & legible take than many of the classics, for more at-a-glance readability without losing any of the essential ‘vibe.’
Note: This is not an installable font, but rather a set of vector letters that can be pasted together to create a custom headline for your graphic piece. Please also check out my .otf & .ttf version of this same alphabet if you’d prefer to install the font & type text. This set of vector letters can be copied & pasted to spell out a customized headline or product name, apply beautiful curves & contours if desired (using Adobe Illustrator’s Object Envelope Distort commands), & presto, you have a lovely, unique, & custom-lettered branding system or headline. & yes, it goes more quickly than you might think.
TIPS FOR GETTING A PERFECT RESULT
1) Don’t forget the kerning! This is often the difference between a good lettering design & a great one. After you’ve positioned the lettering on a straight baseline, give it careful look. Squint at it. Look at it from across the room if it helps. Close up the big wide gaps like you might see between an ‘L’ & an ‘A’. Open it up a bit when dense letters want to dovetail too tightly together. Bottom line: Don’t use math or rulers to kern the letters, use your eyes. If it looks too tight or too loose, then it is.
2) If you’ve positioned individual vector letters before, you probably know that letters with rounded tops or bottoms need to extend a little bit below the baseline & above the cap height line. Example: a rounded capital letter ‘O’ extends slightly beyond the lines at both the top & bottom, & a rounded capital letter ‘U’ extends below the line at the bottom only. This extra height (most prominently on bold lettering) counteracts the optical illusion of rounded letters naturally appearing smaller than the rest.
3) Try curving your words, rotate them around an arc, bend & warp them for great results. Adobe Illustrator’s Object Envelope Distort is your friend.
4) The colors are editable of course, although in some cases, it may prove to be overly complicated to edit some of the multiple gradient swatches used for creating the 3-d style drop shadows & faux-metallic shine gradients. Experiment, & see what works.
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Mott Jordan is a veteran typography designer & confirmed lettering fanatic. He has two ITC designs to his credit (now administered by Monotype, Inc.), ITC Hornpype™, & ITC Verkehr™, as well as a large number of limited-release freebies floating around the web, dating back to the late 1990s. Jordan is also an artist, illustrator, animator, 3D designer, & photographer.
We’re eagerly anticipating the day when color fonts are fully implemented in all graphic design software, & are in widespread use. Installable versions of these Elemental Typography fonts are on the longterm agenda here at Mysterylab.
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