Louisiana

Charles_Borges_...
4.Mar.2008 6.06pm
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Hi,

We have a new font that is being released called Louisiana. An Art Director that I do work for has the most beautiful handwriting I have ever seen. So I asked her if she would like to make a font together and this is what we came up with :)

I had to modify and correct some of the forms to make it work as a font.

We are very pleased with the end result.

-Charles Borges de Oliveira

CBdO

www.borgeslettering.com



TDF
4.Mar.2008 7.17pm
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Gorgeous!

Luke.


bvfonts
5.Mar.2008 4.37pm
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Charles, it’s outstanding! Well done. -Jess


Nick Cooke
6.Mar.2008 2.32am
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Lovely and flowing - you can just tell it’s a feminine hand.

You could do replacement ligatures for duplicate characters together (sunny, Hawaii, Cookies) to make it look more realistic.

Nick Cooke


Charles_Borges_de_Oliveira
6.Mar.2008 6.30am
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Thanks guys. Nice suggestion Nick. I had made a bunch of ligatures for this font but fontlab didnt like the new ligatures. Anytime I introduced new kerning to the font I would keep getting an error message when generating the font “causes overflow of offset to a subtable (0x11a00” It was frustrating so I had to bag the new ligatures and just keep the current ones. It is interesting to note that she is left handed which I believe may give to the slight italic slant.
-Charles


James Puckett
6.Mar.2008 7.39am
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Fabulous work!


Nick Shinn
6.Mar.2008 11.45am
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I like the tension between the forwards rounds and the backslant straights, nicely balanced.
Special!


Charles_Borges_de_Oliveira
8.Mar.2008 9.06am
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Thanks James and Nick!