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Welcome to the projecteducate Text Art & Typography Week!
This article will give insight into the art of Text-based Imagery.
Pieces in which type is used as a minor tool to create an image. The readable content of the visual is less important than the overall look of the piece.
This category is dedicated to images created using text or types. This has become a popular form of text art throughout the last years. The main message of this art is delivered through the image, not necessarily in the text. The text used to create the image can either be an existing font or self-made letters. The image can be anything from a portrait, object, scene or landscape.
Since the name of the category is not precisely self-explanatory, it is best to describe this category giving examples. You can look at it like Pixel Art, where an image is made out of pixels and sometimes you can clearly recognize each pixel. Now imagine each pixel was a letter instead of a square!
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Instead of using a font, each letter of the illustration is handdrawn and therefore fits perfectly into the final figure.
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You type out the words or letters with one or more fonts of your choise and transform or warp them to fit onto the reference or sketch.
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Most graphic programs allow you to add text to a path, so it can go along a curve around corners or just straight. To achieve a final visual colors, fonts or font sizes are changed. The letters theirselves are not altered.
Instead of using words, the image is build up from single characters. It might be the letters of the word that is formed as visual, but they might just be random letters.
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Of course those examples aren't they only ways to create this kinda art. As always: the only limit is your imagination.
Calligram
A Calligram is text that is written in a way to form a visual image. This can be a poem, a quote, words related to the visual or just one repeated word. The text does not need to be Calligraphy, but the "style" derives from Calligraphy. Nowadays typefaces are used to form the visual imagey.
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Text Art: ASCII & ANSI
Those two art forms follow the same principle: an image is created using text/characters. While ASCII makes use of actual characters and glyphs, ANSI uses blocks and lines instead. Read the previous article on them to find out more.
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This article will give insight into the art of Text-based Imagery.
What is Text-based Imagery?
Pieces in which type is used as a minor tool to create an image. The readable content of the visual is less important than the overall look of the piece.
This category is dedicated to images created using text or types. This has become a popular form of text art throughout the last years. The main message of this art is delivered through the image, not necessarily in the text. The text used to create the image can either be an existing font or self-made letters. The image can be anything from a portrait, object, scene or landscape.
Examples
Since the name of the category is not precisely self-explanatory, it is best to describe this category giving examples. You can look at it like Pixel Art, where an image is made out of pixels and sometimes you can clearly recognize each pixel. Now imagine each pixel was a letter instead of a square!
Browse the gallery
Drawn Letters
Instead of using a font, each letter of the illustration is handdrawn and therefore fits perfectly into the final figure.
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Warped Letters
You type out the words or letters with one or more fonts of your choise and transform or warp them to fit onto the reference or sketch.
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Lined Up
Most graphic programs allow you to add text to a path, so it can go along a curve around corners or just straight. To achieve a final visual colors, fonts or font sizes are changed. The letters theirselves are not altered.
Single Characters
Instead of using words, the image is build up from single characters. It might be the letters of the word that is formed as visual, but they might just be random letters.
:thumb53951510:
Of course those examples aren't they only ways to create this kinda art. As always: the only limit is your imagination.
Related to Text-based Imagery
Calligram
A Calligram is text that is written in a way to form a visual image. This can be a poem, a quote, words related to the visual or just one repeated word. The text does not need to be Calligraphy, but the "style" derives from Calligraphy. Nowadays typefaces are used to form the visual imagey.
:thumb71313473:
Text Art: ASCII & ANSI
Those two art forms follow the same principle: an image is created using text/characters. While ASCII makes use of actual characters and glyphs, ANSI uses blocks and lines instead. Read the previous article on them to find out more.
:thumb18257255:
Find out more: The Return of Project Educate | ProjectEducate HeadQuarters - Keep up to date with all events and articles
What happened?!
Holy fucking shit I have not been here in a while.
Just saw on twitter a new theme was out and naturally I got curious.
Turns out in February I got a spike in pageviews, starting Feb 17th until Feb 27th, with hovering just around 1K a day and then from 1.200 on 27th to 63 on 28th
So yeah, no idea what happened, I did not get a DD for a deviation that's more than 2 years old, that I can figure out.
Also I had to delete 1K mentions, because roughly 900 of them were the same person using on a daily basis to wish people a happy birthday.
If anyone can explain this, please do, or I will forever not know.
That said, what else happened? Not
Lots of freebies on my (new) blog!
In an attempt to make the most stressful holiday of the year even more stressful I decided to have a big freebie event at my blog. Every day until the 24th I will be posting new free items for everyone to download.
Check out my blog to learn about the freebies!
Today is a special day, it is December 6th and St. Nikolaus day, so the freebie today is especially big. It contains samples from previous products I released, some new items and some old items that are available for free already.
Here's a link to the post with the big freebie!
The entire website is actually new and fresh with the blog and it's homepage. It contains all the big way
About that Kiriban... and other things first.
The Sunday through to Saturday feature is postponed for next week. I have not had the energy to focus on it this weekend. I don't want to go into detail, I think you are all aware of the horrible things that have happened in this world in the last week, and I am not one to virtue signal. Most of the time I am torn between lost for words and anger.
Meanwhile I am working on a few commissions, so at least I can get busy with that. I want to open up more in the future, as mentioned in the previous journal.
Speaking of the previous journal.
After a long deliberation I decided to not give out the points.
Why?
Because someone manipulated my pa
Kiriban caught!
I think it's time for a personal journal!
You didn't see that one coming, did you?
Obviously now that I decided to write this journal I forgot what I wanted to say.
Oh, right!
Kiriban at 333.333 pageviews!
It is about 2000 views away, which is about 20 days judging from my daily pageviews, so I suppose I will reach it end of July or early August.
If you reach it, take a screenshot and note me with it.
Actually even if you don't hit it exactly, I am probably letting win whoever came the closest.
Wait, win?
Yeah, you can win something. I've collected quite a few of points that I cannot transfer to Paypal, so I thought I should share them
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