Tuesday May 22, 2012
In addition to creating new candy bar wrappers, I'm also updating some of the oldies but goodies. Candy bar sizes change so the templates need a little tweaking as well. This template says Congratulations on your Graduation and depending on how you trim it you can fit it to either a 1.55 oz Hershey's Milk Chocolate bar or the thicker 2.6 oz King size bar. Customize it with school colors or a different inspiring graduation quotation. You can change the fonts as well. When updating this template I referred to this handy list of fonts that are installed with Microsoft Office. The Publisher template prints two wrappers on a letter size page. You can download this template as a PNG image as well.
While this is the only Graduation template I have right now, you could use this generic Congratulations template. If you're handy with editing, add some graduation caps so it looks like the cheering crowd are throwing them up in the air.
Image © J.Bear; licensed to About.com
Monday May 21, 2012
While the debate rages on over whether one space or two after ending punctuation is better, for those who need to remove extra spaces quickly and efficiently the best option is search and replace. Even better, create a macro. Whatever method you choose for removing extra spaces, be consistent and follow whatever style guide you've been given.
Image © J. Bear; licensed to About.com; using Find/Replace in Microsoft Publisher 2010
Monday May 21, 2012
Layering is not just a way to wear clothes, you can get some nifty effects by layering type. Fontfabric has a great free geometric font that's perfect for layering. Use each version alone or build multicolored text just by laying one on top of another. See what I've done with Quad Light, Black, and Ultra and download it for yourself.
Image © J. Bear; licensed to About.com
Saturday May 19, 2012
We know that Helvetica is a popular typeface. It really hits you though when you see a collection of familiar logos that all use it in one way or another. Some seem quite different from the others but they all have a typeface in common. Check out 40 Excellent Logos Created with Helvetica. (spotted via @TypeBot)
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