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by **natty dread** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:05 pm

You haven't even tried my suggestion yet...

by **DiM** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:10 pm

what's with the new title font?
it's too...childish.

by **ndrs** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:12 pm

This is what I came up with using Blending options: overlay, and a slight glow on the text.

The background is done with: inner glow, bevel and emboss, gradient overlay

Face: Andale Mono

by **natty dread** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:23 pm

ndrs wrote:overlay

Fun fact: The overlay mode in GIMP is in practice exactly the same as the soft light mode, due to a bug.

The text on the right looks good.

by **DiM** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:35 pm

ndrs wrote:This is what I came up with using Blending options: overlay, and a slight glow on the text.

The background is done with: inner glow, bevel and emboss, gradient overlay

Face: Andale Mono

your navel has forces? my navel has just lint and hair :lol:

on a more serious note, i like it. all it needs is just some grain or lines or something to give the feeling of an old monitor.
i'm not too sure about the font though. it looks just too smooth, clean and modern.
i think a more squarish ocr-a type font would fit better with the whole old monitor idea.

by **ndrs** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:45 pm

DiM wrote:your navel has forces? my navel has just lint and hair

on a more serious note, i like it. all it needs is just some grain or lines or something to give the feeling of an old monitor.
i'm not too sure about the font though. it looks just too smooth, clean and modern.
i think a more squarish ocr-a type font would fit better with the whole old monitor idea.

Beware of my navel forces!

You're probably right about the font. I just picked the first mono-font in my list.. It was right there at A :lol:

But it's condensed to fit more in a line, and mono spaced! That's key for old monitor fonts

by **DiM** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:52 pm

OCR-A Std is a good font for this. google it koontz.

by **natty dread** on Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:02 pm

Good point about monospacing though.

by **koontz1973** on Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:57 am

As I said, I found a way and was getting it sorted for the small, so all this discussion was pointless.

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DiM wrote:OCR-A Std is a good font for this. google it koontz.

Not free to use so cannot be used.

Beware of my navel forces!

Had that one on for around 20 drafts. Only one person picked up on it though. :lol:

As for the font used by ndrs, I like it and could of used it if I had gone down the route the Flapcake suggested with the plastic.

by **natty dread** on Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:34 am

You could try this:

Duplicate the text layer, put the duplicate under the text, then blur it with 1px gaussian, set it on grain merge and reduce the opacity until you have a very faint glow on the text.

by **koontz1973** on Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:37 am

natty_dread wrote:You could try this:

Duplicate the text layer, put the duplicate under the text, then blur it with 1px gaussian, set it on grain merge and reduce the opacity until you have a very faint glow on the text.

Tried to blur the bottom layer as you said and at 1 pixel was not really seen. At 2 pixels it was seen but made the whole text blurry.
I had a slight glow on the text (which I had turned of to try your way) so brought that out more for this.

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by **DiM** on Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:21 am

koontz1973 wrote:
DiM wrote:OCR-A Std is a good font for this. google it koontz.

Not free to use so cannot be used.

there are a few versions floating around. i know i found it for free, just don't know where exactly. if you want i can upload it from my computer.

by **koontz1973** on Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:26 am

DiM wrote:
koontz1973 wrote:
DiM wrote:OCR-A Std is a good font for this. google it koontz.

Not free to use so cannot be used.

there are a few versions floating around. i know i found it for free, just don't know where exactly. if you want i can upload it from my computer.

Might be nice to use, but I would not want it to stall the progression of the map trying to prove it is a free to use font. Damn those copyrights.

Already had a hard enough time trying to get my planes and boats away from the copyright issue.

Apart from the font, how is it looking to you DiM?

by **koontz1973** on Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:18 pm

Here is the small version done as the large.

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How does it all look now?

by **natty dread** on Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:50 pm

DiM wrote:
koontz1973 wrote:
DiM wrote:OCR-A Std is a good font for this. google it koontz.

Not free to use so cannot be used.

there are a few versions floating around. i know i found it for free, just don't know where exactly. if you want i can upload it from my computer.

It doesn't matter if you found it "for free", the font licensing needs to be considered. If the font license allows personal use for free, but doesn't allow commercial use, then it can't be used for CC maps.

by **DiM** on Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:39 pm

natty_dread wrote:
DiM wrote:
koontz1973 wrote:
DiM wrote:OCR-A Std is a good font for this. google it koontz.

Not free to use so cannot be used.

there are a few versions floating around. i know i found it for free, just don't know where exactly. if you want i can upload it from my computer.

It doesn't matter if you found it "for free", the font licensing needs to be considered. If the font license allows personal use for free, but doesn't allow commercial use, then it can't be used for CC maps.

what i meant was that various people made their own versions of OCR-A inspired fonts and gave them for free.

anyway if you don't want ocr-a you can still find lots of other fonts that are a better fit for an old monitor. you need something squarish and pixely.
pick your "navel" font: http://tinyurl.com/7x98cz2

by **natty dread** on Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:43 pm

I still think the font should be a fixed width font.

by **koontz1973** on Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:58 pm

natty_dread wrote:I still think the font should be a fixed width font.

What do you mean by a fixed width font. One that has all letters using the same amount of pixels going across or the kerning (I think that is the right word)?

The current one is Verdana.