{"id":6164,"date":"2012-12-04T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:28:02","slug":"20121204-swirl-a-typographic-flourish-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-cc-design-typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/04\/20121204-swirl-a-typographic-flourish-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-cc-design-typography\/","title":{"rendered":"20121204: Swirl, a typographic flourish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5014\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"20121204: Swirl, a typographic flourish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121204.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5014\" class=\" wp-image-5014 \" style=\"margin:5px;\" title=\"20121204: Swirl, a typographic flourish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography\" alt=\"20121204: Swirl, a typographic flourish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121204.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">20121204: Swirl, a typographic flourish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I really love typography play. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inkscape\" href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Inkscape<\/a> is my favorite tool, bar none, for this. I do it all the time. Enter a piece of text with the text tool and choose and apply a font that begins to speak to the end design in your mind. I chose ballpark as a starting point. Then select the text, and do a path\/union operation (ctrl-shift-plus), which turns the text into a single editable path. Then use the node tool to tweak, move, resize, and shape the edges of your text until you have the shape that you want. I added a dot to the &#8220;i&#8221; inside of one of my flourishes, and joined it with the existing path using a second union operation. \u00a0In this particular case, I added a rectangle with a gradient to create a vignette in the background, and applied a beveling filter to the text to give it some depth.<\/p>\n<p>swirl, text, flourish, typography, design, open source, lemasney, fun, sexy, playful, funny<\/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\/11\/22\/20121122-sliced-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-cc-design-typography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121122: Sliced by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/03\/20121203-cupcake-made-of-text-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-cc-design-food\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121203: Cupcake made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #food<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/11\/30\/20121130-how-to-play-slapsies-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-cc-design-poster-howto-infographic-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121130: How to Play Slapsies by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #poster #howto #infographic #games<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really love typography play. Inkscape is my favorite tool, bar none, for this. I do it all the time. Enter a piece of text with the text tool and choose and apply a font that begins to speak to the end design in your mind. I chose ballpark as a starting point. Then select [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5612,"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":[1128,3654],"tags":[76,335,346,365,403,411,3870,854,865,923],"class_list":{"0":"post-6164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-illustration","8":"category-portfolio","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-gimp","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-graphics","13":"tag-illustration","14":"tag-inkscape","15":"tag-john-lemasney","16":"tag-typography","17":"tag-vector-based","18":"tag-wordpress","19":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121204.png?fit=1200%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1Bq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1358,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/06\/28\/189-of-365-is-a-greeting-in-inkscape-3d-type\/","url_meta":{"origin":6164,"position":0},"title":"An illustration of the phrase &#8220;what&#8217;s up?&#8221; by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #3d #typography #drawing #greeting","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-06-28","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll start by saying that the text in this image, and its 3D treatment were not done in Inkscape, but in a free (but not open source) version of the application called SketchUp, owned by Google, and used to build really wonderful things in three dimensions. 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