Wax - ornament type

roy
31.Jan.2005 10.08am
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hi all,
the following attachment is Wax - an ornament typeface based on my chest hair. i worked on it as part of Mike Essl's experimental typography class at Cooper Union last year (thanks mike). tell me what you think and feel more than free to spread it around.
cheers
Roy


application/ziptype file
wax.zip (46.2 k)



armin
31.Jan.2005 10.59am
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Fantastic! We need more body-hair fonts.

Wax is cool


speter
31.Jan.2005 11.22am
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I guess you just had to get that off your chest...


armin
31.Jan.2005 12.10pm
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Good pun!


Bald Condensed
31.Jan.2005 12.21pm
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Roy's got more hair on his chest than I have on my head. :-)


roy
31.Jan.2005 3.00pm
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hey guys,
thanks, and yes i guess i got more hair on my chest than most of you got all over... so why not decorate with them ah?

it all started from looking too long at Dalliance Flourish... and now that is the result. but a hair stroke is a pretty neat material to work with :-)


Grant Hutchinson
31.Jan.2005 3.15pm
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Positively follicular!

My only criticism would be that the characters in the font that were created by mirroring or flipping variations of the same shape (the more pattern-like glyphs, that is) are much less interesting than the raw component shapes. I think the example that Armin produced is a perhaps more effective use.


roy
31.Jan.2005 3.58pm
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thanks Grant,
i agree, indeed i only included three mirror-like shapes to see how people react and i think im going to cut them out.
the mirrors are more of a way to use it rather than a stand alone shape.
thanks for your input


Grant Hutchinson
31.Jan.2005 6.44pm
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Are you still developing additional characters for this font? I'd be curious to see how many variations you can pluck out of it...

{ ouch }


roy
31.Jan.2005 10.18pm
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the process was taking the hair taping each seperately and then mixing the shapes i got. after i was happy with one of the form i scanned it and traced it. than i increased the contrast, so it will work even in a small size and different printers.
i have tones of shapes, but at some point you understand (and i know it sounds awkward but that is just the way it is) that hair is some what like a snow falck i mean, all the shapes are different and exciting, and it is an endless resource.
so i just stoped at some point to collect them,


Miss Tiffany
1.Feb.2005 8.44am
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Could you explore split ends too? Or straight hairs as discretionary ligatures?


roy
2.Feb.2005 6.25am
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that is a pretty briliant remark. honestly i didn't think of htat. i was striked by the idea of stroke=hair and the way the stroke weight is changing in hairs. meaning the width of the line of a hair is working different than a pen. but what you say opens up so many options. i think that would be the next step. exploring the split ends. ligatures seems interesting as well. i think i might cpme pu with set of shapes that will work as connecting shapes betweeb two existing shapes. but forgive my ignorance (english is my second language) what do you mean by "discretionary"?


peter jarvis
6.Mar.2007 2.25pm
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yea ligatures could be the ’hair extensions’

fun stuff