shatterstripes

Well, I suppose the question is what kind of script would you use is you did it by hand? (As in ... writing... font type things... not actionscript or something like that...)

That's chilling...

Hmm. Maybe I'll make the palette more inviting, then.

The mask expression, marking and colors are what is the most disurbing.

Hmm. I suspected as much. I guess my take on Worldly Authority is that it's essentially creepy, since I've got similar stuff going on with the Emperor.

I recently discovered Harold's Fonts and noticed some free fonts that may be fitting. "Mystic Prophet" is, appropriately, based on an old spirit board design, and has an exotic look that seems like it could go with your work. And "Roosevelt" might be too schmaltzy an alphabet but the numerals look like exactly what you want. "Columbia Stamp" is more traditional but probably too "distressed" for your clean edges.

Come to think of it, my own "Cerulea" (which I'm still working on) might go with it pretty well, too. It's extended, not compressed, but I can envision a sort of vertically-stacked design for the two-digit numbers...

Hmm, I'll have to poke around there. I'm actually thinking that whatever type I do may be distressed; notice that I'm retaining the hand-drawn waveryness to my borders. It'd be less work to have them be crisp, mechanical rectangles, but I'm trying to have each of them be uniquely tweaked. (Well, I will when I go back for the editing pass.)

I might ultimately just steal some display numbers from an Oz book or something. I dunno.

Oh, and do you have a screenshot of Cerulea? I can see if it fits my ambiguously-deco vision for the type on this.

Oooh, that is pretty much exactly what I was thinking when I was hand-writing the numbers in my sketches. (Nice choice of pangrams, too.)

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I think there is real potential here, don't you? I'm waiting until I've finished all styles in the family before putting Cerulea on the market (the kerning pairs in italics are murder!), but the regular weight is essentially complete. I'd be glad to give you a pre-release copy to work with, in return for a standing favor of your choice and/or a free deck when it's eventually printed.

I was thinking of offering you pretty much that in exchange for a pre-release copy of the font. Credit in the little white book, too.

I might want to ask you to knock out a condensed version of just the numbers for labeling #s 11-22 - or to take the letterforms and do one-shot manual condensings, so you don't have this hanging temptation to make a condensed version of the entire font. Or play with some crazy overlappings like what you did up there... we can fool around with it and there's no rush. I can also play around with the framing elements of course.