TYPE BATTLE: Week 16 (10 July)
TYPE BATTLE: Week 16 (10 July)
Here’s your chance to stretch your type muscles on a weekly basis. Each game kicks off on Monday with a new challenge, and closes at midnight PST on Friday. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and comments are welcome throughout the game, from participants and spectators alike. Smack talk is encouraged.
Winner take all, no holds barred. May the best designer win.
Link directly to this thread: http://www.typophile.com/battle16
Requirements:
- Size: 600 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and white only
- Format: Please save your graphics as PNG
- Only respond with the characters posted in the challenge.
// THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE:
// This is a fat contest. So pack in those twinkies and design the phrase “I am the phattest” in the heaviest letters you can muster. The phattest fat face wins.
10.Jul.2006 7.15pm
Quickie to get it started (just a screenshot from Illustrator):
11.Jul.2006 3.45am
reminds me of Rammstein (but much fatter :-)
11.Jul.2006 5.25am
I missed the last one, so I’ll try to get in early here. This won’t work as a font, but I don’t think that’s required.
(inkscape sketch)
11.Jul.2006 8.15am
11.Jul.2006 8.16am
update: I am the most silly...
and even fatter...
11.Jul.2006 11.07am
Could not resist...
11.Jul.2006 12.22pm
ok, this is an early knock out by a sumo wrestler...
11.Jul.2006 3.18pm
You are…
11.Jul.2006 4.16pm
Nice, kris. that’s looking pretty phat.
11.Jul.2006 5.20pm
What a bunch of supermodels. This is phat. ;-)
12.Jul.2006 10.50am
These faces need some counter stapling surgery...
Ok, here’s my first shot.
12.Jul.2006 12.32pm
jonsel, i dig. P.H. fatty phat. the T’s though...squishy
12.Jul.2006 3.08pm
I was going to enter, but after seeing matthew_desmond’s entry I’m not even going to bother. Kudos, dude—that is hilarious!
12.Jul.2006 4.00pm
Matthew - how dare you try to win this? Nice work, almost dissuaded me from entering the ring as well, but, hey, what fun is that?
Jonsel - good to see you here, have I told you you rock? Nice tough phattness, it could totally beat up the others.
This puppy was just calling for me to finish the alphabet but I got lazy when it got hard (go figure) so there are some letters missing, and some are just ugly.
13.Jul.2006 7.59pm
C’mon people. That all you got?
14.Jul.2006 1.04am
supersize...
14.Jul.2006 2.05am
one of the phattest fonts i designed (sorry, not especially for this battle...)
14.Jul.2006 4.33am
And a fat(obesite) penny from me.
14.Jul.2006 11.27am
For the phattest typeface I choose the Bubba Enbloque designed by Greg Meronek find at :
http://www.fontshop.com/?fuseaction=catalog.fontpackage&searchby=manufac...
14.Jul.2006 11.39am
Well, here’s my go: bit of a mishmash stylistically, but what the heck...
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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster’s stopped working.
14.Jul.2006 1.20pm
For the phattest typeface I choose the Bubba Enbloque designed by Greg Meronek find at :
The purpose of the battle is to test your skills, not to submit typefaces previously created — especially not by other people.
14.Jul.2006 1.41pm
- Lex
EDIT: Fixed the weight of the ’S’.
14.Jul.2006 2.46pm
Tremble, lest I sit on you!
14.Jul.2006 3.38pm
ooh, Carl, nice one!
14.Jul.2006 6.51pm
Crossgrove, that there is like a real(ly phat) typeface! I totally dig it.
15.Jul.2006 9.26am
It is a lot like a typeface; I took Mundo Sans Ultra and puffed it up even more. I hope that isn’t cheating. I obviously missed the rule about image size... <:(
15.Jul.2006 12.55pm
It’s so phat, it can’t even fit within the default image size!
- Lex
15.Jul.2006 2.04pm
mm I don’t know, I’ve been under the impression that these battles were for sketching up new bits to answer the challenge.
Christian, judge’s ruling here?
15.Jul.2006 2.50pm
A weight that I will eventually draw for Cyril ( www.typophile.com/node/12860 ) if I ever draw any weights for Cyril: Cyril Absurd. Right beyond Cyril Black. It gets phatter at the end because I realized I could make it even phatter.
The process I went through to make it:
-Hand draw in pencil
-Trace pencil with pen
-Scan into garage computer
-Transfer into computer in my room
-Touch up in Photoshop
-Import into Inkscape
-Trace bitmap
-Minor tweaking
-Export bitmap
-Post
Ridiculous, eh? What do you guys do? I bet you all have those new-fangled hifalutin styluses.
16.Jul.2006 2.59am
Not a new font but it fits (I guess):
George Triantafyllakos - backpacker.gr
18.Jul.2006 9.47am
hahaha, matthew_desmond! brilliant!