A penguin made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #Inkscape #cc

One of my favorite animals, chosen by Linus Torvalds as a representative ideological animal for Linux, popularized as the plush penguin named Tux. This is the latest animal in my text-based animals series.

The Legacy of Linus Torvalds: Linux, Git, and One Giant Flamethrower (wired.com)
Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions (meta.slashdot.org)
Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far (linux.slashdot.org)

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7 thoughts on “A penguin made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #Inkscape #cc”

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thisnameisfalse 2010-10-03 at 5:51 am

Wow, very good!!!

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lemasney 2010-10-03 at 11:10 pm

Thanks!

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Teresa 2012-11-08 at 10:20 am

I am wondering how you do this….I want to make a personalized one but not sure how to go about doing it

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lemasney 2012-11-08 at 10:47 am

I have a few videos on the technique. I used Inkscape. Here’s a vid of me doing something very similar, which should give you what you need to know.