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WOW very nice font and original.
nice output at small size too.
Bravo!
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Smart use of vertical scaling to delineate the ribbon’s ‘front’ and ‘back’. This makes your beautiful, hand-colored sample possible.
The other approach, of course, would be to break the foreground and background into two layers – as two distinct fonts or a complementary upper and lowercase. Two-tone effects would be so much easier to achieve and to work with (as long as the fontmortar keeps all other metrics consistent). As well, further creative possibilities of using just one layer would be on tap.
I trust you already went down that road in some fashion, and decided instead to offer subtle alternates in the lowercase (also keeping this competition entry to just one fontstruction), allowing more varied title settings. If you are firm on this approach, maybe flip the letters that stayed the same between upper and lowercase (vertically for C, E, and I – T can be flipped horizontally – S and Z could also be alternated with a bit more effort).
Great entry with some cool details. At pixel size it has a convincingly rustic ‘plank’ effect like painted letters weathering away on an old wooden sign. The zigzags at larger size feel very ‘eighties’ to me. This might make this very popular with the kids. ;)
