FontStruct | FontStruction Feed: Teatral

Comment from Em42

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Beautiful decorated font: I like the white outline suggesting an inner emboss that contrasts with the external 3D effect! (I would suggest to add Circus to the tag list: it looks perfect for a circus name.)

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

yep, you're right... guess i'm not too creative with the tags.:) thanks for your comments!

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

ok, everyone, we'll play some democracy here: i'm not sure if i should leave the lower case letters just blank like this. i had the idea to fill them with the same pattern, but upside down (black at the bottom, white at the top)... if you'd prefer that to the blank letters, let me know and your wish shall be my command...

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

ok, i'm not sure what political scientists would say about the time span of this voting, but i consider this a 100% majority... so here you are with the inverted fills. i actually had the same impression about the military look that didn't fit into the whole decorative concept, i cloned the blank ones for your standalone idea and made this one consistently decorative. i really like the stencil idea, too... i'm gonna work on this one as soon as i find the time! thanks for your feedback!

Comment from nemoorange

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Truly gorgeous. And so many characters. wonderful work!

Comment from Em42

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Definitely more consistent with the inverted fill in lowercase letters. Great work!

Comment from fivex

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I love it! It took me forever to find it in MS word.

Comment from kix

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

truly excellent use of the applet. i think its the highest level of being creative to work with bounded conditions! great idea to just choose the invertation! im simply impressed. super good work!

Comment from kix

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

btw... i deeply respact people with the will to do somthing complete. 187 characters dammit! :)

Comment from subway24

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

That must've taken forever to make! Great job!

Comment from astronautchimp

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

i really dig this font, well done sir!

Comment from Axel Leyer

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Woderful work! Love it

Comment from Stewf

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Teatral was featured in my talk at the TypeCon Pecha Kucha. Here's a shot. There were 'oohs' and 'aahs'.

Comment from sezna

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

i think you should invert the letters in lowecase

Comment from kolarek

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Great work - respect

Comment from PSerighelli

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Awesome font, beautiful patterns!

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I've adjusted the space width... Funny, haven't touched this for a year. I wonder how this would have been with all the new bricks and new features of fontstruct.

Comment from LexKominek

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I just picked up a copy of ffwd weekly in Calgary, and guess what font they used on the cover! http://www.ffwdweekly.com/showissue/141/

Comment from aphoria

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Whoa, awesome! Great find Lex, thanks for sharing. Congrats shasta.

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Wow... On the cover! How cool is that!? I don't know the magazine myself, but Wikipedia tells me it has some 70'000 readers... I guess that's my biggest audience so far.:) Thanks a lot for posting this Lex! I would never ever have found that myself... (They could have picked a different colour combination though... red/yellow looks a bit cheap.:P)

Comment from djnippa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Shouldn't you be paid for it's usage, or at the very least asked by them if they could use it?

Comment from gferreira_admin

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Good point, nippa. Given the license (by-nc-nd) I think the right answers would be ‘yes’ and ‘yes’.

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Actually yes, I thought about that too... They should have contacted me at least to ask if they could use it, because even when the magazine is for free it is clearly a commercial product. I'll probably write them a mail asking for some humble remuneration, though I'm too happy to see my font on a magazine cover to start a war on licencing issues. This is by the way probably a by-product of our fonts unauthorisedly appearing on free font sites. I have started releasing some of my work on dafont.com (not including Teatral so far though), and the feedback is pretty overwhelming: Punched Out has been downloaded some 22'000 times within three weeks, and featured on several blogs, up to swiss-miss.com. I've also gotten several requests for permission to use it in commercial projects. The bad side about it is that you lose control over where your font shows up pretty fast; I've found my fonts on several sites that definitely didn't ask for my permission. Which I suppose is still legally correct as long as they don't state having designed it and include the license with my name in the zip-file. (Which of course no one is going to read though.) So the question is: to be happy about the wider audience and your fonts appearing even on magazine covers, or to grieve for the loss of control and potential license violations? So far I tend to choose the first option as I've never ment to make money with my 'structions... Might change some day though. :)

Comment from cayo

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Very eloquent. I could not agree with you more. 110%?

Comment from LexKominek

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Re the colours - in print the yellow is actually a light green. Quite Christmassy.

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Here's a screenshot of the Fast Forward Weekly cover Teatral was used on. By the way: The licensing issue is settled. I contacted the design director of the magazine and asked for a donation, which he happily agreed on. Yep: I've officially earned my first money with fontstructions. :)

Comment from will.i.ૐ

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

You rule, Shasta. :) Favorited, this and the under appreciated stencil version. And good work coming to a positive relationship and terms with FFW and for pursuing it to begin with!

Comment from p2pnut

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Nice one Shasta ... you old pro (and I mean that in the best possible way) :)

Comment from djnippa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I've just seen a TV advert on Sky TV. I think you should contact them and ask for a MASSIVE amount of money, for illegal usage! If they can spend £20,000 on one TV advert, I'm sure you can ask for a fair amount, or threaten them with legal action. Here's the advert on YouTube I work on 20% commission. :-)

Comment from djnippa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Try this YouTube link

Comment from djnippa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hopefully this will work YouTube If not go to YouTube, and search for 'new wonga.com advert'

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Wow. Definitely gotta contact them, they didn't ask for permission at all... And in the case of a loan shark I wouldn't even feel bad for asking for a solid compensation ex post. Thanks a lot for pointing me to this, nippa! I would never have found that on my own... Makes me wonder how many illegal uses of our fonts there are out there - I'm sure the dark figure is huge, especially of the fonts we (or others) put on dafont. Still cool that the fontstruct detection network seems to work in quite a few cases.:P

Comment from Upixel

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

nice catch djnippa! Shasta, I'm sure you're right it happen more often than we think. I think the easy and fair way is to ask them kindly to pay for commercial fee of the font, no more. I can suggest you to go on myfonts.com and watch other work and figure out how much you can charge. But no matter if you get paid or not, it's cool to be picked et use in a ad. tell us how you sort it out ;)

Comment from djnippa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Did you contact them? What happened?

Comment from ladyfur

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

that cover looked great. did you ever get any answer about the tv station ad? this is why i would only make things publicly available if i wanted them to be used by whomever. it has to be awfully hard to track down everyone who swipes your art. in any case, it's a great font and it mkes me think of old westerns and old musicals :) i gave it a 10. good luck!

Comment from winty5

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It hasn't happened to me yet, but if it does, i'm going to charge whoever does it. Good eye djnippa! This is a great font.