Shadowman

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Balanced Rating: 8.64
Average Rating: 8.69
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by lldaddy

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To get the overlapping effect, type in Caps and end word with small letter.
Info:

Created on 24th July 2009. Last edited on 12th August 2009.
License:

Creative Commons
Categories:
- Display
Sets:
- 3D
- Extruded
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27 Comments

Cool! It really looks like it pops out at you. I think you should add the !.

Comment by jinx 9th august 2009

Love the shading - nice work

Comment by p2pnut 9th august 2009

Very nice 3D effect. Yes, it really pops out, thanks to the perfect grey shading. I would increase the space to separate the words. I deserves a full 10.

Comment by Frodo7 9th august 2009

Thanks for the comments. I do have an '!' which I assign to the '/' key. The original '!' key is now for the non-ending '1'.

Comment by lldaddy 9th august 2009

this is excellent. it reminds me of a 70s type font - vintage yet very contemporary. sample?

Comment by funk_king 9th august 2009

Oh. I see. Thanks for answering.

Comment by jinx 9th august 2009

yes it has a perfect shading.

Comment by oyrus 10th august 2009

really nice effect!
a must for any comic convention.

Comment by cayo 12th august 2009

In our background, we don't usually put a diagonal line in the 'zero'. But in this font, it's a good cause to break up some black blocks.
So I added in today.

Comment by lldaddy 12th august 2009

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Comment by gferreira_admin 12th august 2009

beautiful

Comment by artsbel 12th august 2009

Smart solution to overlap the letters & beautiful shading effect.

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Another approach would be to create two separate fonts: one for the background (current black), another for the foreground color (current white) – and overlap them when composing a document. This is more work (metrics need to be exactly the same in the two fonts), but opens a whole world of possibilities and frees the glyphs from being straight at the left. See a couple of examples of "font stacking" here, here and here.

This approach would also make designs like Hommage a Escher or Bas Relief possible – different shades of grey (color) can be made as solid surfaces in different fonts, instead of halftone patterns in one single font.

Comment by gferreira_admin 12th august 2009