Category Archives: Alphabet

ruling pen practice

By Josh | Published: June 30, 2008
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Hey… I’m still alive!

By Josh | Published: June 11, 2008

Ok, so it’s totally embarrassing how long it’s been since I’ve posted. Umm……. Sorry?
Teaching took up more time than I expected (more on the awesomeness of my class later) and we just bought and moved in to a house (yeah, like real grown-ups!). Class is over and I’m all settled in now so 26 Symbols [...]

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Future font designers at KU

By Josh | Published: January 8, 2008

I’m pleased to announce that I will be teaching Lettering and Font Design at my alma mater, KU starting January 17th. This is going to be a incredible experience and learning opportunity for me and I can’t wait to get started. The postings have slowed down as I’ve been getting prepared for the class but [...]

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Pepper Pen

By Josh | Published: November 28, 2007

This is a folded pen I made out of the tab of a Dr. Pepper can. Originally I wasn’t too happy with the results so I put it away for awhile. However, I tried filing it to smooth the edges following Peter Thornton’s advice on using folded pens and now it’s a fairly useable tool. [...]

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Alpha 07, 08 & 09

By Josh | Published: November 14, 2007
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Alpha 06

By Josh | Published: November 4, 2007

This fat, experimental alphabet was done in Illustrator using my Wacom tablet. I created a calligraphic brush with these settings: Angle 30º, Roundness 50% and Diameter 300pt with Pressure Variation set to 300 pt. I wanted to see what a brush with a huge range of pressure sensitivity would do. Here you can see the [...]

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Ghoulish Glyphs 04: Halloween haiku

By Josh | Published: October 26, 2007

Here’s a quick and dirty all caps font I created entirely in Illustrator with a flat pen brush using my Wacom Bamboo. I then took it into FontLab for spacing and font generation. Back In illustrator, I set the alphabet and wrote a Halloweenie haiku to go with it.

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Continuous line alphabet

By Josh | Published: October 10, 2007

Alphabet drawn without picking up the pen.

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Alpha 04

By Josh | Published: October 8, 2007

Sorry, Bamboo. It was back to good ol’ paper and pen for this one.

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Bamboo alphabet

By Josh | Published: September 30, 2007

First Alphabet drawn with my new Wacom Bamboo. Created entirely in Photoshop using a custom brush with the following settings; size 60 px, 138° angle, 32% roundness, 10% spacing with shape dynamics set to pen pressure.

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quick alphabet

By Josh | Published: September 26, 2007

Just playing with the brush tool in Flash with pressure sensitivity turned on on a Wacom tablet. I found the slightly quirky behavior interesting as I’m used to the Illustrator’s brush tool. Sometimes it’s fun to just let the tool do what it wants to do and see what you can make of it.

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ball point pen sketch

By Josh | Published: September 24, 2007

A quick little ball point pen sketch I did in our hotel room in Chicago. I thought this would be a good one to kick off the sketches on 26 symbols. It gives you a good idea of what to expect. It’s rough and un-retouched. The purpose of this blog is to force myself to [...]

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