I’M DONE !!1
(LOL’Z!)
After rather extensive amount of work, I have managed to put together an opentype file of vector images that represent taggings.
In theory the font has all english caps, plus lower case from ‘a’ to ‘p’.
However for some reason the .otf is full of fontlab’s own symbols.
It’s funny though, My font gets buffed (removed by authority) against my will…. ;-)
Anyway, the font works with ligatures: using comma after any letter should change it a little.
Every glyph was sketched by hand, scanned to photoshop, and path outlines copy-pasted to illustrator.
Then after all the adobe’s extensive path corruptioning, converted to real vectors and moved to fontlab.
DOWNLOAD “Taggings” OpenType Dingbat Font
here’s the mindmap
and this is what illustrator looked like, 5:12AM in the morning before the presentation: the dump layer.
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Don’t worry, I haven’t started from scratch again. I just need to rewrite this space again to develop my current idea more clearly.
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The function of my typeface goes like this:
Each letter key on the keyboard holds one tag.
using any letter and adding comma, or perioid will enable a ligature function. this will result in tag characteristics, for example:
(pressing letter Q) “TAG”
(pressing Q and ,) “TAGONE”
(Q and , and .) “TAGONE with decorations such as double quote, star/asterisk, a halo, underline etc.
an example of shiny halo, double underline and double quote on a tag:
This means I would have to make 29 variations of my tag. That would be 3x29 different glyphs (I think). It is possible to do that, but I might want to have more than one words.
A good example of how many variations can be made of one word: Erosie from the netherlands
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My meme is about illegal graffiti. The meme is very physical: you pick a word, style it as a tag and repeat it over and over again, on different surfaces.
It isn’t yet clear if it works from the aspect of graffiti writers or normal persons who doesn’t really understand it.
Lucas: It’s a very formal and fashionable meme.
Erkki: But it’s a quite hated meme in Finland…