Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05)

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Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05) - jimbow8 - 07-12-2006

dejo Wrote:As suggested by jimbow8, without periods:

Comments: Still not great. I think the problem lies in the fact that "WWJD?" doesn't really have enough characters to nicely span the space.

As suggested by webby, with periods closer to letters:

Comments: Periods not as close to letters as I'd like. My kerning skillz are not that mad.

I actually like the second one better - with the closer periods. I'm not trying to be a pain, but you might try it with the picture off-center. I wonder if the pic in the center makes the mind demand a symmetry to the letters which can't be acheived.

Just ideas. Don't feel obligated to post every revision......

Thanks for your efforts, though,

Jim

Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05) - Biggles - 07-12-2006

dejo Wrote:As suggested by jimbow8, without periods:

Comments: Still not great. I think the problem lies in the fact that "WWJD?" doesn't really have enough characters to nicely span the space.

As suggested by webby, with periods closer to letters:

Comments: Periods not as close to letters as I'd like. My kerning skillz are not that mad.

I like it the second way.

Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05) - Maggers - 07-12-2006

[SIZE="5"]GREAT[/SIZE] idea for a mug and for a T shirt. I'm buying! When's it gonna be ready? I know, I know, it's just an idea for now, but it's a good one. Big Grin

Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05) - Medusa - 07-12-2006

I like the second one too. I would buy that on a mug but also on a t-shirt!

Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05) - Ken Valentine - 07-12-2006

dejo Wrote:Comments: Still not great. I think the problem lies in the fact that "WWJD?" doesn't really have enough characters to nicely span the space.

As suggested by webby, with periods closer to letters:

It doesn't have to take up the entire space. The most important thing is for it to be centered.

With that in mind; if, on the W's, the period was centered directly under the far-right part of the letter, (the point of the "flange" on the top of the W) and the other periods brought proportionately closer to their respective letters; the letters themselves brought closer together, and the question mark placed so that the farthest left of the curve was directly over the farthest right point of the period, it might look better.

For my taste, you could also place the question mark after "DO" closer, and re-center the entire phrase WHAT WOULD JACK DO? (notice how close the letters and punctuation are right there?) over the www.repairmanjack.com.

Then -- if I may also suggest -- bring the W.W.J.D.? script close enough together that you can draw (or almost draw) an imaginary line from the upper-outer corners of www.repairmanjack.com to the widest part of the circle containing the Jack Image, and have the upper two lines of script contained (or almost contained) within those two diagonal lines.

Sort of like a pyramid of script with Jack at the top.

On the whole however, I have to say that it's an inspired design . . . BEAUTIFUL!

Ken V.

Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05) - webby - 07-12-2006

dejo Wrote:Comments: Periods not as close to letters as I'd like. My kerning skillz are not that mad.

Just a suggestion / trick I've used when kerning isn't getting it: seperate each letter and each period onto its own layer. Then you can move them around willy-nilly! Big Grin

Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05) - dejo - 07-13-2006

Ken Valentine Wrote:It doesn't have to take up the entire space. The most important thing is for it to be centered.

Well, since I was basing my design on the motif created by these covers:

[Image: 10316787.jpg]

...I'd figure I should spread the text across the width of the space.

But the triangle idea has possibilities...

Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05) - dejo - 07-13-2006

dejo Wrote:But the triangle idea has possibilities...

Something like this?

[Image: wwjd_1e_cropped.jpg]

P.S. Heh, heh. I quoted myself.

Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05) - Ken Valentine - 07-13-2006

dejo Wrote:Well, since I was basing my design on the motif created by these covers:

...I'd figure I should spread the text across the width of the space.

Now I see what you're doing. And understand why you're doing it that way.

Quote:But the triangle idea has possibilities...

Just something to consider . . .

Ken V.

Repairman Jack Store (NEW Products May 05) - Ken Valentine - 07-13-2006

dejo Wrote:Something like this?

P.S. Heh, heh. I quoted myself.

The periods could be a little farther to the left, but yeah, that's what I had in mind.

What do the Ladies think?

(I find that women are always better judges of this sort of thing than men.)

I think it looks much better.

Ken V.

P.S. Either way, it's a great design.