The blog of Simon Stratford aka It's me Simon

Photorealistic tin soda can mockup for photoshop

October 1, 2018

Soda can mockup for photoshop combines real photography with 3D

The creative market is flooded with soda can mockups, so why I hear you ask, have I created one? That's a good question.An excellent question, to which I have a very long, bizarre, and very protracted answer.In my quest to make my soda...

8 Tips for Fontself maker and photoshop when creating Opentype-SVG bitmap fonts by Simon Stratford

August 29, 2018

In Tutorial

8 Useful Tips for Fontself in Photoshop creating Opentype-SVG Fonts

Colour fonts are exploding right now. Mainly due to the superb software for Photoshop and Illustrator called Fontself Maker.I've created a few colour bitmap fonts now with Fontself and Photoshop. Fierce, Yeah and Hello Monday. Everything I've learned so far was by trial and error....

Higgs Boson Blues font handmade vintage woodtype in the tradition of old American letterforms—the OpenType-SVG extraordinary amount of texture and detail

August 21, 2018

In Font

Higgs Boson Blues font a wood type style typeface

Higgs Boson Blues was hand carved onto lino blocks, yeah really. I bought a pack of 10 lino blocks mounted onto wood just to create this typeface.I love to carve lino, I find it therapeutic, and it gets me away from the computer screen—always...

July 6, 2018

In Font

Wild Irish Rose brush script font

Wild Irish Rose is quickly hand painted brush script font. Painted without overthinking too much (easy for me huh), I intentionally painted it as fast as I could.I knew, or at least I thought that would give it energy. Adding energy into a static...

10 Beautiful patterns for designers by Simon Stratford

June 21, 2018

In Design, Illustration

10 Beautiful patterns for designers

Did anyone notice an explosion of patterns? When did that happen? Have I been walking around with a blindfold on?I've just suddenly tuned into them.Perhaps its the fact that summer designs have caught my eye. Bright, very bright colourful patterns seem to be the...

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

In Font, Writing

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,...

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