Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
It's been a while...
... but I've been carrying out UTF stuff at my regular blog, Under The LobsterScope.
Rest assured, however, that the fonts and web poppers are still available... still at the posted prices (although I do have a giveaway special every month for a donation of $5.00 or more at Under The LobsterScope.)
Should I design any new fonts, they will end up here first.
-Bill
Rest assured, however, that the fonts and web poppers are still available... still at the posted prices (although I do have a giveaway special every month for a donation of $5.00 or more at Under The LobsterScope.)
Should I design any new fonts, they will end up here first.
-Bill
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Web Poppers now available for Blog Designers...
Each set is delivered on CD with 300 of the most popular JPEG images that I use in my own blogs, Under The LobsterScope and Panhandle Vegan. I have been getting great responses to these for the past year and the number of requests that I release them has been substantial.
So here they are.
The complete set costs $39.95, all taxes and shipping included.
Some samples from the 300:
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Now you can buy the whole set...
That's right, all my fonts for $150.00... includes all taxes and shipping.
What a deal.
That includes:
Bills American Ornaments
Bills Ampersands
Bills Asterisks
Bills Big Bullets
Bills Brackets
Bills Dearborn Initials
Bills DECOrations
Bills Dingbats
Bills FISTory
Bills Modern Diner
Bills Peculiars
Bills Printers Pals
Bills Universal Symbols
Bills Victorian Ornaments
What a deal.
That includes:
Bills American Ornaments
Bills Ampersands
Bills Asterisks
Bills Big Bullets
Bills Brackets
Bills Dearborn Initials
Bills DECOrations
Bills Dingbats
Bills FISTory
Bills Modern Diner
Bills Peculiars
Bills Printers Pals
Bills Universal Symbols
Bills Victorian Ornaments
Friday, September 10, 2010
I've started using my picture fonts to punctuate blog postings.
I was thinking of ways to make postings on my Under The LobsterScope blog get a little more interesting and I came up with Web Poppers. These are small tiles, each having a picture font character on them that I make in PhotoShop. Then I put them into my posts, often alternating left and right sides.
This has been a really fun use of picture fonts and one that you might apply to your web postings. They go well with e-mail, too... and for my printed snail mail, having small illustration tiles on a document can help create focus on particular topics.
In this entry, I have used poppers made from Bill's DECOrations, Bill's Real Rubber Stamps and Bill's Printer's Pals. I've made up a couple hundred of these for my use and enjoy adding them to my publications. You might like them, too.
This has been a really fun use of picture fonts and one that you might apply to your web postings. They go well with e-mail, too... and for my printed snail mail, having small illustration tiles on a document can help create focus on particular topics.
In this entry, I have used poppers made from Bill's DECOrations, Bill's Real Rubber Stamps and Bill's Printer's Pals. I've made up a couple hundred of these for my use and enjoy adding them to my publications. You might like them, too.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Setting Poetry with Bill's New Elzevir
Here's a poem by Shel Silverstein set with the Bill's New Elzevir font:
If you'd like to buy Bill's New Elzevir, go HERE.
If you'd like to buy Bill's New Elzevir, go HERE.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Presenting it again: our Best Selling Picture Font
Bill's Cast O'Characters
Here's a picture font that you'll find hundreds of uses for. I first released Bill's cast O' Characters 18 years ago using picture images from classic type specimen books of the late 19th and early 2oth Centuries. There are images which I've used for politics, holidays, humor, office memos and many other items.
We deliver it to you with Mac, PC and OTF fonts in the same package, plus a detailed keyboard chart.
There are 78 characters in all that you get in both Mac and PC versions (in the same set) for $29.00. Good deal, hey? Here's a little animated graphic I put together with this font:
See- 2 minutes without having to draw anything.
We deliver it to you with Mac, PC and OTF fonts in the same package, plus a detailed keyboard chart.
There are 78 characters in all that you get in both Mac and PC versions (in the same set) for $29.00. Good deal, hey? Here's a little animated graphic I put together with this font:
See- 2 minutes without having to draw anything.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Bill's Dearborn Initials
Every now and then you need a single fancy letter... maybe you want to key off a paragraph on a page to make it stand out; perhaps you are making a fancy monogram. Whatever. This set of letters was modeled after a set used early in the 20th Century by the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. Here's a sample:
Like it? I've been using this font for years with many happy clients.
It costs $29.00 and, like all our fonts, comes with both Mac, PC and Open Type versions... you get all three.
Like it? I've been using this font for years with many happy clients.
It costs $29.00 and, like all our fonts, comes with both Mac, PC and Open Type versions... you get all three.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
New updates coming soon...
We have a downtime due to a dead laptop battery, but will be back as soon as Amazon delivers.
- BT from a borrowed machine.
- BT from a borrowed machine.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Using PhotoShop with Picture and Display Fonts
Sometimes you want to take one design and look at it in different ways. That's where PhotoShop succeeds admirably.
I took 2 of my fonts, Bill's Dingbats (which has a small collection of bar glassware) and Bill's Metropolitan, a sophisticated display font that hearkens back to the cocktail era of the 20s, and put them together:
That gave me a header design to use as a column leader.
However, I wanted to try it somewhat differently to see how I would react to it, and I did this by playing with PhotoShop's filters, adjusting brightness, fuzziness, negativity, etc.
Here's one example:
Now we have a significantly different feeling...more of an evening presence.
You can try lots of variations and have fun.
I took 2 of my fonts, Bill's Dingbats (which has a small collection of bar glassware) and Bill's Metropolitan, a sophisticated display font that hearkens back to the cocktail era of the 20s, and put them together:
That gave me a header design to use as a column leader.
However, I wanted to try it somewhat differently to see how I would react to it, and I did this by playing with PhotoShop's filters, adjusting brightness, fuzziness, negativity, etc.
Here's one example:
Now we have a significantly different feeling...more of an evening presence.
You can try lots of variations and have fun.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Designing a Catering Company's logo...
This was a project I was given and I used three UTF fonts and some Photoshop touchups to create it. The fonts are Bill's Modern Diner (waitress), Bill's Cast O'Characters (waiter), and Bill's Light DECO for the text, used, actually, at three different sizes:
I tried a lot of different background colors, but eventually ended up with a really fresh light green.
I LOVE using fonts to create graphics!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Bill's New Elzevir
Some display fonts are very different from others in that they are never the first ones you think of using. That's New Elzevir to me. It's often my second... and better... choice. I designed it based on a font I found in a turn of the century (19th to 21st) specimen book.
Here's a sample:
Yes, I used a European crossed 7 in the numerals... but I've been handwriting sevens like that since high school.
Anyway, you can have it for $29.00.
Here's a sample:
Yes, I used a European crossed 7 in the numerals... but I've been handwriting sevens like that since high school.
Anyway, you can have it for $29.00.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Using Two Fonts to create a Ballot
I used Bill's New Elzevir (coming soon) for the text and and Bill's Printer's Pals for the checkboxes.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
The Elementary School Package
Quite awhile ago, while my son was in the throes of elementary school (he's a Graduate Student in History now!), I created a pair of fonts which were made to be used by kids learning their alphabets at an early age. I based it on the way I was taught to neatly write letters on a three-lined sheet of paper in first grade... then I matched it with a set of small illustrations that were alphabet-based, plus a string of graphics based on numbers 1 to 10.
The results were Bill's School Letters and Bill's School Daze.
Here are some samples:
I sell the Elementary School Package... both fonts... for $29.00 complete (that means it also includes versions for Macs, PCs and an Open Type set good on either system...Unix, too.) I also pack a keyboard chart for Bill's School Daze.
If you would like to order the package, go here:
The results were Bill's School Letters and Bill's School Daze.
Here are some samples:
I sell the Elementary School Package... both fonts... for $29.00 complete (that means it also includes versions for Macs, PCs and an Open Type set good on either system...Unix, too.) I also pack a keyboard chart for Bill's School Daze.
If you would like to order the package, go here:
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