Using fonts as graphic elements
For Photoshop users, they have plenty of brushes that can be used in their design. Some brushes are just plain image/drawing/illustration - so they can use it without having to draw them separately. But for those who are not using Photoshop - like myself, a Fireworks user - we don’t have much options, except for vectors or by creating it ourselves.
Another alternative is to use fonts. Yes, font. Fonts are not just for text anymore since there are a lot of fonts consist of graphic illustrations or drawing or even scanned pictures. Fonts can be resized to be very huge or small - so it works much like vectors. Here are some useful and nice fonts that you can use as your graphic elements:
There are a lot more out there. Why don’t you share any of your favourite with the rest of the readers? Have fun!
Brian
26 Jul 2008
A great collection - well done.
Eli
26 Jul 2008
Yep, these can definitely be a great help sometimes. We just have to remember to try and incorporate them whenever we can - this is a hard task for me
Fox
27 Jul 2008
Great - these are attractive.
dune
27 Jul 2008
have you also recently discovered PCX clipart?
Barebear
26 Aug 2008
Great and funny fonts, thx for sharing.