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-- Posted by pleaseremove at 4:56 pm on April 19, 2006

I have an image:

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The image itself looks fairly gothic and I am at the stage where I am adding links on top of it for an image map. The problem comes when I try to make the text look gothic and read-able. I also obviously need the words to fit well with the image.

An example of one I have done before can be found here.

So does anyone have any good ideas? I'm looking for techniques, ideas, examples to emulate and fonts (must be free and legally downloadable).

Any help would be great, thanks.


-- Posted by bighead1991 at 5:01 pm on April 19, 2006

http://simplythebest.net/fonts/gothic_fonts.html

Is thats alright for some?


-- Posted by telomere13 at 6:43 pm on April 19, 2006

These are very simple, but I think they're fairly effective.  I just used this font then added another layer with a motion blur underneath it.

(edit)For some reason I thought you needed to use a highlighted set of links too, which is what the second one is for.  They're both more readable without JPEG compression (obviously).

(Edited by telomere13 at 8:44 pm on April 19, 2006)


-- Posted by dzyna at 11:04 pm on April 19, 2006

you could also download some fonts off DAfont.com for free, there are many more sites, but this is my fave, try layers, multiply, screen, ink splatter if you have brushes, good luck


-- Posted by pleaseremove at 11:53 am on April 20, 2006

Thanks very much. I did use your font telomere, so thanks for that.

As it stands it looks like this:

http://craiga.pleaseremoveyourfeet.com/

Which I think shall do for now....


-- Posted by bruhaha here at 7:12 am on April 22, 2006

it looks  a little blurry though. dafont really has the best fonts. of all kinds


-- Posted by pleaseremove at 8:10 am on April 22, 2006

Quote: from bruhaha here at 3:12 pm on April 22, 2006


it looks  a little blurry though. dafont really has the best fonts. of all kinds

I made it blurry deliberately, its an effect i added over the top. it looks fine to me.


-- Posted by cutie2 at 12:09 am on May 6, 2006

Yeah, it looks pretty nifty. Readable and all. I have problems using gothic fonts too, at least if I want the viewer to be able to understand it.


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