dingbats

Overview: Working with fonts. Installing and dingbat fonts. Fit text to path.

Installing fonts will depend what Windows OS you have.

To install fonts please refer to class Dec 3-5 Part 1- Simple Titles and Shapes.

For viewing fonts you can use a font viewer.

Weld letters together.

Go to Type, select a font and type a word or words.
Go to Text, visual text spacing and move so the letters are overlapping.
Go to weld.

Outlining words.

Go to Type, select a font and type a word or words.
Go to Text, visual text spacing and move so the letters are overlapping (optional).
Go to weld, optional.
Go to outline, select spacing and change line color.
Select just the outline and go to outline box and select the spacing and change the line color.
Continue selecting the last outline and select spacing and change line color. You can make as many outlines as you want.

Fit text to path.

Please refer to class Creating a Swirl and Fit Text to Path.

Single or one stroke fonts are on the Pazzles size of your font box. True type fonts are not one stroke fonts, but some are very thin that will work with the pen tool.

If you want to save your dingbats fonts to the image gallery please refer to class October 26, 2010 Image Files and What to do with Them.

This class is about 1 hour minutes.

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Overview: More on Background Papers.

File Share

62 font

Dingbat Template.wpc

Finding shapes for your backgrounds.

Go to the Image gallery, use dingbat template, (which is just all the alphabet plus numbers and characters typed out).
Go to Type, find cottage font (or any dingbat font) click ok.
Go to Text, break by character, select any character (Klo selected the # 8), and delete the rest of the alphabet.
Place in the bottom left corner and remove the color fill.
Right click, select multiply, select spacing -0.01, copies 1, if you don’t like it, click undo. This must overlap so you can cut this out. (You can also use mirror, and duplicate and apply). Use the arrow keys to move you piece over to overlap.
Right click, select multiply, select spacing -.05, just keep trying a different spacing until you get the effect you want. When you’re satisfied, multiply, full page, copies (just guess what would fill your page, you can delete or resize).
Resize to fit the page, click C, size 11.75″ x 11.75″, click apply.
Select all (Ctrl A), group, center on page.
Weld, and color fill.

To turn it into an overlay.

Go to Draw, make a rectangle 3.75″ x 5.75″.
Go to the outline tool, make it .25, select a different color.
Make the 1st rectangle filled with white, fill outline in black.
Select the background and send to back or farthest position.
Place frame on top anywhere you want, right click, duplicate and place as desired. Make as many frames as you want and/or use some as journaling spots.
Select all, WYSIWYG, select low (original software, medium or high in Pro software).

You can also use brackets.

Go to Type, use the bracket key on your keyboard, make 2.
Go to Text, break by character.
Select R, on your keyboard, 90 degree, duplicate and apply.
Try different rotations, more brackets, etc. for different looks. (Oh… pretty).
Resize, duplicate, move over and keep this to the side for an extra copy of this.
Follow the steps above to make a background paper.
Caution, making background paper can be additive. 🙂 The possibilities are endless!!

Klo helped a student with a question about last weeks class.

Sunday p.m. class is about 55 minutes.

Monday a.m. class is about 50 minutes.

Monday p.m. class (this class) is about 1 hour.

*What I did…

I used a fancy letter (can you tell which one) to make this page. (It’s the P).

This is in wire frame, the left is before the right is after I did WYSIWYG.

Here it is filled and ready to cut.

Have fun designing!

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Tag: dingbats

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