{"id":5748,"date":"2010-09-20T23:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T03:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2020-07-11T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:37:11","slug":"313-of-365-is-of-benefit-typography-design-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/09\/20\/313-of-365-is-of-benefit-typography-design-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"273 of 365 is of benefit #typography #design\u00a0#Inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3052\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100920-benefit.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3052\" data-attachment-id=\"3052\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/jul-1-2012-6-46-pm-2048x1536\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jul-1-2012-6-46-pm-2048x1536.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Nexus S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1341168377&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.43&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0588235294118&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jul-1-2012-6-46-pm-2048&amp;#215;1536\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jul-1-2012-6-46-pm-2048x1536.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3052\" title=\"Of benefit\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100920-benefit.png?resize=640%2C395&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Of benefit\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of benefit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A very simple idea, and quite a simple design. A great font with some kerning applied, essentially. I try to make this one of my daily reasons for being.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very simple idea, and quite a simple design. A great font with some kerning applied, essentially. I try to make this one of my daily reasons for being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3654],"tags":[1098,346,411,1995,854],"class_list":{"0":"post-5748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"tag-fonts","8":"tag-google","9":"tag-inkscape","10":"tag-kerning","11":"tag-typography","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1uI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5706,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/08\/09\/231-of-365-is-a-monogram-for-dan-wadlinger-typography-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":5748,"position":0},"title":"A monogram for Dan Wadlinger #cc #design #typography #inkscape #dw","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-08-09","format":false,"excerpt":"I've received a strong response of interest (maybe jealousy?) in the \"friend monograms\" sketches, and I'm saying right here that if you ask for one, I'll make every effort to make you one, or in this case, 12. 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