{"id":5009,"date":"2013-12-17T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:26:06","slug":"used-believe-john-lemasney-via-lemasney-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2013\/12\/17\/used-believe-john-lemasney-via-lemasney-com\/","title":{"rendered":"I used to believe by John LeMasney via lemasney.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5010\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"I used to believe by John LeMasney via lemasney.com\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5010\" data-attachment-id=\"5010\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2013\/12\/17\/used-believe-john-lemasney-via-lemasney-com\/i-used-to-believe-by-john-lemasney-via-lemasneydotcom\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?fit=1200%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"I used to believe by John LeMasney via lemasney.com\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;I used to believe by John LeMasney via lemasney.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;I used to believe by John LeMasney via lemasney.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?fit=1000%2C583&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-5010 \" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"I used to believe by John LeMasney via lemasney.com\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?resize=500%2C291&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?resize=1000%2C583&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I used to believe by John LeMasney via lemasney.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I decided to illustrate a meditative thought I&#8217;ve had recently. There is a change emerging in my point of view, and I thought that I would express it in Inkscape. I added the text in two pieces, one for each line. I used Bebas Neue, one of my favorite title fonts. I tightened the kerning on an already very tightly kerned font, by breaking the text into individual letters and moving them horizontally towards each other until they had a certain flow. I spaced them on the non-repro grid on Inkscape that is set to 100 pixel squares. I added a texture in the background from an acid stained, coffee drenched sheet of ledger paper. I then re-aligned the lines of text to the blue ledger lines, and reduced the opacity of the letters to let the texture show through, as though they were printed as a ghost print in red ink. 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