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[glowcat]

returning to friends posts.

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Comments

[dearmysoul]

i'm sorry about that comment the other day. i did have a lot more constructive things to say and then felt it was too stupid, and then posted the dumb link which i went back to delete but you had already commented.
i really feel bad, because i think the concept is really great and it's cool that you and your friend are willing to put your time and money into this project cos most people aren't.
i wanted to say the other day to not let lack of funds and recourses keep you from being creative!(not saying it is, but a lot of people i know think that money=better work and it's just not true) there are lots of great tutorials and inspiration out there, so even if you don't know how to use programs you can probably learn really quickly. also (i dunno what your feelings about this will be, ehh) but you dl the torrent for the entire adobe font collection which is amazing, over 1500 fonts i think.
A really good book on typography is Typographic Design: form and communication. It has lots of great examples of design using type and font samples, and histories of different typefaces.
anyways, sorry again, and good luck :)

[glowcat]

Don't beat yourself up over it, I dropped it that night.

I'm sure I could put more time into pushing boundaries but I can't do things that will soak up ink. I'm also focusing on keeping a magazine that's so full of different things still looking uniform. I've only worked on two so far, the up-coming will be my third :) So, I've managed to work out a few of the kinks I suffer with, and will keep trying to polish it.

I avoid going crazy with fonts. While they're expressive, with a zine that's mostly about reading stories, I have to keep it legible, and I want it to stay uniform.

I have adobe, and several fonts I've downloaded for personal use, but still, restraint tends to be best in a lot of cases. It'd be too busy, broken up, and just plain hard to deal with if there were too many fonts, especially when we have the money to send it to a printing house- they don't want to deal with receiving and loading all the fonts either. been there with a different magazine!

I think that's the book I got in college, but the professor never had us read any of it. :-/ I use it for the grid every now and then, plus it has a great page for font size!