This special font allows you to create logos simply by pressing a combination of keys on your keyboard. No drawing required! Works with most page layout and drawing programs. Here's how it works:
1. Create a new text block in your page layout or drawing program.
2. Select the "InstantLogo" font from your font menu.
3. Select an appropriate type size for your logo, such as 72 points, in order for you to view and edit it easily. You may change the size of your logo after you are satisfied with your design.
4. Type an uppercase character or numeral (such as the "R" or "5" character) into your text block. This creates a "panel" that makes up the basic shape of your logo. There are 36 panels to choose from such as squares, stars, and lightning bolts.
5. Create a SECOND text block and position it on top of the first one. This is where you will type in a second character that acts as a white "mask" over your previously typed in panel. Now you can type a lowercase character such as the "g" or "s" to complete your logo. The masking patterns are located in the lowercase characters (26 in all). Make sure to change the color of your second character to WHITE (unless, for one reason or another, you do not want your pattern character to mask over your panel character).
5. Finally, save your work as a PICT or EPS file to make it accessible to your other programs.
THAT'S IT. You could use the "style" menu in your program to explore other options. Or use the panels or masking patterns by themselves. There are literally THOUSANDS of possibilities. To fully take advantage of this font, use it in either Illustrator, Canvas, or Freehand. These programs have an option to convert characters to paths. This allows you to type out your logo, convert it to paths, and fine-tune it even further.
OTHER USES:
* Use the panels or patterns in your next newsletter to mark the ends of your articles or as bullets.
* Use this font as a "custom" dingbat font--with more possibilities than any other dingbat font.
* Designers! Use this font to brainstorm when designing your next logo.
THIS FONT IS SHAREWARE. If you like this font, please send $10 for this one particular font or $25 for a "lifetime registration" for all the fonts in the growing library of InstantLogos (currently includes "MostlyWaves" and "BunchOLines") to:
Jonathan Macagba
Logo Design & Fine Typography
849 N. Fifth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
If you need a custom logo designed, ask for a price list and sample sheet.
My studio also designs display faces, corporate typefaces, and converts phototypesetting and metal faces to the Macintosh or Windows format.
Jonathan Macagba studied Architectural Design for two years at the Calif. State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. He left the program in 1982 and started to work as an apprentice in the graphic design field. He has since worked and freelanced for various companies from design studios to typesetting firms. A growing interest in logo design and typography led him to start his own logo and type design studio in 1990. Now based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he designs computer-based typefaces and logos for local and international clients.
* Some of the patterns have been refined and changed.
* The price of this special font has been lowered to $10 (it registers you for this one particular font only -- the previous shareware fee of $25 entitled you to register other fonts in the InstantLogo series of panels and patterns)
* The previous version had zero character widths that allowed patterns to be automatically overlayed over panels. This was useful for users with programs that did not have the ability to create two separate text blocks. But it was confusing for other users. So I removed this ability in this version.
