Yup the byline is no doubt OP (Optimus Princeps). The title font, I’ve seen, but have apparently banished it from my brain. 😉
OP does have lousy kerning–the semi-bold is uniquely bad. Makes Papyrus look like the Bobby Oppenheimer of kerning. But it CAN be fixed! Just takes a wee bit of time and effort.
damn it I think have that font (the title font). It’s vaguely historical in a way that makes it wrong for pretty much everything. Devinne Swash, yeah, that looks like it. I need to clear the junk out of my font files!
Sadly yes. At one point I was looking for a font that said “Victorian” and I think that’s when I acquired this. The individual letters don’t look so bad, there’s a nice Art Nouveau vibe to them, but strung together in words, it never looks…good? right? both? I never used it, but failed for some reason to uninstall it until now.
Yes, I’ve seen that font and if memory serves, we had a customer that had her heart set on it, somewhre in time so I played with it and like you, I could never make it look “right.” No amount of tracking, kerning…nothing made it work. I agree that some categories of fonts (like Art Nouveau) have scant choosings, no doubt about it. It MIGHT work if you could find a font to blend with it–use the DEVINNE for the first letter, possibly and then the other font for the rest of a word or the like…but that would be awfully time-consuming.
A lot of the foofy and/or “Celtic” fonts, for example, make life hell trying to genuinely use them. They look great in the font sample (typically the name) but don’t really work in the wild, ESPECIALLY if you want them for an all-caps word. That’s typically the kiss fo death.
“Neanderthal” is debatable, but she’s definitely not well-dressed.
Although that is much better tattoo work than I would have expected from people who haven’t even figured out the cave painting yet.
The tagline could be this site’s motto.
+100 up votes!
Yup, me too, 100 upvotes for that one, @Marc!
Fortunately, “Kern your capitalis” isn’t a thing.
I think that’s Optimus Princeps (maybe Hitch can back me up here) but if not, Optimus Princeps also has poor kerning
Yup the byline is no doubt OP (Optimus Princeps). The title font, I’ve seen, but have apparently banished it from my brain. 😉
OP does have lousy kerning–the semi-bold is uniquely bad. Makes Papyrus look like the Bobby Oppenheimer of kerning. But it CAN be fixed! Just takes a wee bit of time and effort.
damn it I think have that font (the title font). It’s vaguely historical in a way that makes it wrong for pretty much everything. Devinne Swash, yeah, that looks like it. I need to clear the junk out of my font files!
Oh, dear–do you mean this one?
https://www.dafont.com/devinne-swash.font
???
Sadly yes. At one point I was looking for a font that said “Victorian” and I think that’s when I acquired this. The individual letters don’t look so bad, there’s a nice Art Nouveau vibe to them, but strung together in words, it never looks…good? right? both? I never used it, but failed for some reason to uninstall it until now.
Yes, I’ve seen that font and if memory serves, we had a customer that had her heart set on it, somewhre in time so I played with it and like you, I could never make it look “right.” No amount of tracking, kerning…nothing made it work. I agree that some categories of fonts (like Art Nouveau) have scant choosings, no doubt about it. It MIGHT work if you could find a font to blend with it–use the DEVINNE for the first letter, possibly and then the other font for the rest of a word or the like…but that would be awfully time-consuming.
A lot of the foofy and/or “Celtic” fonts, for example, make life hell trying to genuinely use them. They look great in the font sample (typically the name) but don’t really work in the wild, ESPECIALLY if you want them for an all-caps word. That’s typically the kiss fo death.
ain’t that the pure truth!