{"id":5750,"date":"2010-09-22T21:19:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T01:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:28:20","slug":"315-of-365-is-a-chicken-made-of-text-inkscape-typography-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/09\/22\/315-of-365-is-a-chicken-made-of-text-inkscape-typography-design\/","title":{"rendered":"A chicken made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design #typography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3059\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"A chicken made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design #typography\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100922chicken.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3059\" data-attachment-id=\"3059\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/jul-10-2012-6-31-pm-2048x1536-1000x288\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jul-10-2012-6-31-pm-2048x1536-1000x288.jpg?fit=1000%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,288\" 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=\"jul-10-2012-6-31-pm-2048&amp;#215;1536-1000&amp;#215;288\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jul-10-2012-6-31-pm-2048x1536-1000x288.jpg?fit=1000%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-3059 \" style=\"margin:5px;\" title=\"A chicken made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design #typography\" alt=\"A chicken made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design #typography\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100922chicken.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chicken made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design #typography<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I got a recent comment from a design student on Flickr who said that while he liked my work, he was being asked in classes to do something similar, but without altering the letterforms. While I&#8217;m not sure how recognizability happens with those restrictions, I decided to try to do this chicken while keeping the original letterforms relatively unmodified. I really love the result, and will definitely try it again!<\/p>\n<p>text, type, typography, chicken, made of text, lemasney, open source, creative commons, Inkscape, GIMP<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size:1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/20\/20121220-a-honeybee-made-of-text-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-typography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121220: A honeybee made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #typography<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/17\/20121217-symbols-of-nature-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-cc-by\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121217: symbols of nature by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #cc-by<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/11\/20121211-a-fork-drawn-in-text-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-cc-by-food\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121211: a fork drawn in text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #cc-by #food<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a recent comment from a design student on Flickr who said that while he liked my work, he was being asked in classes to do something similar, but without altering the letterforms. While I&#8217;m not sure how recognizability happens with those restrictions, I decided to try to do this chicken while keeping the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5158,"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":[3654,3657],"tags":[1924,411,1117,854],"class_list":{"0":"post-5750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portfolio","8":"category-requests","9":"tag-image-galleries","10":"tag-inkscape","11":"tag-portfolio","12":"tag-typography","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100922chicken.png?fit=809%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1uK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5704,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/08\/08\/229-of-365-is-a-set-of-monograms-for-friends-typography-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":5750,"position":0},"title":"A set of monograms for friends by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-08-08","format":false,"excerpt":"So this was inspired by the recent sketch of my longtime monogram as well as a conversation with Sarah Badawy about how some combinations of letters work better than others. 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