The blog of Simon Stratford aka It's me Simon

What are Colour fonts? Are the next big thing in graphic design. They bring multiple Colour, shades, textures and transparency to type. They include vector shapes, bitmap images or even both into font files. Colour Fonts or OpenType-SVG.

June 4, 2018

Colour fonts what are they? A Designers Guide to color typefaces

Colour fonts are steadily getting a foothold in the graphic design market, but many designers are not exactly sure what they are, and how they can use them or even create them. I'm going to attempt to cut through the bullcrap and in the words of...

How not to write a title on the Creative Market by Simon Stratford

May 22, 2018

In Design

How not to write a title on Creative Market

Short and sweet post on how not to write a product title on the creative market. If you are not a Creative Market shop owner, then nothing much to see here. I'm writing this mainly as it annoys me. But also, I'd like to think that...

Wedding script fonts perfect for invitations and stationery. A small collection of wedding fonts and combinations wedding font pairings and elegant calligraphy fonts put together to inspire you.

April 6, 2018

In Design, Font

Wedding fonts perfect for invitations and stationery

Wedding script fonts perfect for invitations and stationery. A small collection of wedding fonts and combinations wedding font pairings and elegant calligraphy fonts put together to inspire you. You might be employing the talents of a designer, so you'll need custom wedding invitations, place settings,...

March 31, 2018

In Font

OpenType-SVG colour fonts what you need to know and why I love them

OpenType-SVG fonts are a thing now. What are you talking about I hear you say? Colour fonts are here, full colour for each glyph, its a thing now—and it's called OpenType-SVG. For font designers, it's kind of a big deal. We have been stuck with black...

Fierce font is a hand painted full-colour brush display typeface by Simon Stratford

March 26, 2018

In Design

Fierce font is a hand painted full-colour OpenType-SVG brush display typeface

Fierce font is a hand painted full-colour brush display typeface. Using the new OpenType-SVG font capabilities that now brings full colour to Mac Photoshop fonts. The beauty of a full-colour font is that it keeps all the lovely details that my original painting included. It's not...

Yeah font is my first full-colour typeface, created with c4d, photoshop and fontself. It's a gold foil font, bold, big and pop kitsch at its best.

March 12, 2018

In Font

Yeah foil balloon colour font

Gold foil balloon type for photoshop—I've never used a 3D rendering program to make a typeface before. But that's exactly what I've done with my new font called Yeah. Each letter was modelled in cinema 4d to look like those gold foil mylar balloons. Very big,...

Don't lose your fire brush lettering by Bianca Cash

March 5, 2018

In Design, Typography

10 awesome examples of brush lettering

Along with brush fonts, I'm very partial to a nice bit of brush lettering. I love the loose type of lettering created with a real brush. I'm not so much a fan of old-school calligraphy. With enough practice, anyone can learn to create the perfect calligraphic...

March 3, 2018

In Design, Writing

10 creative graphic t-shirt designs that are killing it

T-shirt designs — I'm a sucker for a good tee shirt. Its pretty much what I wear everyday—its my uniform. Thankfully the days of me wearing a shirt and tie are long gone. I feel sorry for the poor saps on the tube everyday...

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