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Shoestring
Posted by Tomi from Suomi in
18 Jan 2010 — 7:10pm
18 Jan 2010 — 7:10pm
I think this might be a good idea, but also, this could be really stupid:
I'm going to make words out of shoestring. It will include a lot of ligatures, and 'space-glyph' and glyph-sapce' -thingies.
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18 Jan 2010 — 8:31pm
Cool.
I would dump the aglets and make it telephone cables instead.
hhp
18 Jan 2010 — 9:35pm
Clever tittle.
19 Jan 2010 — 1:04am
Definitely interesting.
Different, but same name:
http://www.fonthead.com/fonts/ShoeString
Related:
http://flat-it.com/sneaker.php
But, at least, it isn't rodeo-inspired! ;-)
19 Jan 2010 — 5:17pm
Bugger; Shoelace is just too easy. And Hrant; I can always just change those aglets to telephone or USB. Or power outlet. Or HDMI connection. And I just might. In fact I can have an infinite amount of variants just by changing the ends ;·}
19 Jan 2010 — 5:22pm
I think what would be ideal is if the "endings"
were not on each letter, but on each word.
hhp
19 Jan 2010 — 5:26pm
> I think this might be a good idea, but also, this could be really stupid:
Try HDMI :)
19 Jan 2010 — 5:29pm
With OT, that is given. My idea is to build a lot of ligaures totally connected, and then change in the "endings" and "beginnings".
19 Jan 2010 — 5:43pm
This is how far I've gotten:
I am stumped with 't'. What can I use as a crossbar?
19 Jan 2010 — 7:20pm
I bet a knot would work.
19 Jan 2010 — 7:30pm
I guess that is the way to go, but how to make it look good… I think I have to do the same thing with comma.
20 Jan 2010 — 1:02am
If you keep the shoestring metaphor, you could place two tittles from wich a string enters and exits.