The quote I chose to use in my font poem is from the song “Two Step” by Dave Matthews Band. This is one of my favorite quotes because it acknowledges the brevity of life, as well as the beauty of life. We should appreciate the lives that we live, and celebrate the people and things that are important to us. I try to emulate this quote by not getting overly upset over things I can’t control, and celebrating life whenever possible.
I used fonts that I felt visually reflected the words I was using. I used Herculanum font for the word “Celebrate” because it is a festive font. I played around to color in the word and make a bright border on the lettering because I wanted this word to stand out. For “we will” I used font Minion Pro in bold italic and played with various tools to warp the text. I made the two words appear as an “Arc Lower” with a 75% bend, 15% horizontal distortion and 20% vertical distortion. To color the words in, I used the “Satin” tool and selected the “multiply” blend mode. This gave the words a shadowy filling, which I made sky blue. I did this because I see this as a very hopeful color and the words “we will” refer to future actions. "Life" was my favorite word to manipulate. I selected Zapfino font because I find it to be very fun and lively, which is how I view life. I chose a Chromed Satin style to shade the letters because the colors in it remind me of a sunrise, and with every sunrise comes a beautiful new day. I used Blackoak Std for the words “is short” to physically show the brevity of life that is being described. Since the word “but” is a transitional word, I made it all capital letters, and used bold Trajan Pro font. I also used the Transform tool to skew and rotate the word so it leads up to the next word in the poem. I gave the word “sweet” an outer glow using the fx tool and colored it pink because when I think of sweet I think of candy and bubblegum, and other sugary things.
Aesthetically, I wanted my font poem to be easy to read, but also for the fonts to coincide with the words in the quote. I chose to place the word “Life” in the middle because I think that it is the most important word in the quote. The last words “for certain” are placed at the bottom center because they are very definite in their nature and I wanted them to leave a lasting impression.
Though this project stressed me out at first because I am not very familiar with Macs, I eventually was able to achieve what I wanted. After playing around with Photoshop, I grew more comfortable with the program and the computer in general.
Font Poem Draft 1:
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