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{Rotational Ambigram} TRULY WICKED
Posted by dave bailey in
16 Sep 2010 — 7:53pm
16 Sep 2010 — 7:53pm
My latest commission for a women in Australia, to be used as a tattoo. It's really wide so here's a small preview and I'll attach a PDF to view in more detail. I'm feeling pretty satisfied, but would love to hear what y'all think. :o)
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| TRULY WICKED 9-15-10.pdf | 587.28 KB |
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16 Sep 2010 — 8:15pm
Extremely hard to read, but visually interesting. I would say try re-posting this without "truly wicked" written anywhere to gauge how many people can actually read it.
17 Sep 2010 — 1:03pm
I think you could get a much better D by making the T more like blackletter styles such as Old English.
The vertical stem of the T might also improve the R
17 Sep 2010 — 1:31pm
That's a pretty good idea; otherwise I wonder if an independent vertical could serve as the stem for the R and the D.
WICKED is more apparent than TRULY.
17 Sep 2010 — 4:03pm
Mixin it up with the T/D combo. Thoughts? Original is at the top:
17 Sep 2010 — 4:20pm
the stem surely helped. the U kinda read like a Y to me.
18 Sep 2010 — 8:26am
Here's what I meant by the more "independent" vertical, that sticks with the D at the end but gets read as part of the R rather than the T at the front.
19 Sep 2010 — 4:30pm
Look, here's how you do it. Make a whole, solid vertical that will be the left stem of the R and the left stem of the D. Connect it at the top of the R and the top of the D. Leave the bottom of the D open (but not too open) to keep the T separate, and, of course, the bottom of the R will be open to keep the E separate. A reader's grouping of shapes into letters is biased toward the cues at the top.