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[2011-04-24 13:22:43 +0000 UTC]
"Youssef Salah"
(Egypt)
# Statistics
Favourites: 111; Deviations: 15; Watchers: 14
Watching: 95; Pageviews: 7499; Comments Made: 213; Friends: 95
# Interests
Favorite TV shows: Supernatural, Weeds, Smallville, OnetreeHill, Sci-fiction TV, I bet i watched everything out there :).Favorite bands / musical artists: Anathema - PinkFloyd
Favorite books: A Game of Thrones.
Favorite games: Warcraft 3/WoW
Other Interests: Designing weird things is sure something that made a worm hole in my brain, I can't get my brain to stop the idea of illustrating every single thing i see. :d
# About me
Hey there thanks for taking the time to check out my work, hopefully you will find some stuff you will use or help me improve myself in whatever I'm doing at the moment.I tend to move from 1 thing to another pretty quick.
I've been using Photoshop/Illustrator for quite a while now, And just finished my 2nd font a day ago make sure to check it out!
Feel free to message me if i can help you with anything.
Thanks for reading!
# Comments
Comments: 43
Thanks for the watch Friend!
Your Truglaroll font is really good... Keep up the good work!
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Your gallery is amazing, Keep up the good work, And thanks!
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Thanks for watching me!
What an amazing gallery you have by the way!
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Your work is amazing, Would love to see more of it, And thank you for your great words 
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OMG! you gave me a points. My First point. YAY!!! I'm Gonna celebrate
lol joking.
Thansk So Much Mate.
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Thanks for adding [link] to your favorites!
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thanks for fab my fambs.
i waant watch u....
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Haha, Thank you & anytime!
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Really interesting group, Hopefully you got some good typography artists!
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Not sure about that. There are few and in between in the group.
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You have a great gallery keep it up!
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Haha, Thanks glad you like it, You can download [link] and use it for free(personal only) keep a look on my gallery i'll update it with tons of work soon!
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Thanks for that link man.
Sure. Would love to see more work from you.
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Sorry, I don't want to add Magic to Temple-of-Typefaces just yet. Keep developing and I'm quite certain I will add Magic when it has matured a bit.
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Your work is amazing, Expect alot of favs from your gallery =d!
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Anytime, Great work!
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Love the effects you used
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You have amazing work and gallery keep it coming!
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awe thanks buddy and i sure will
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thanks for the 
i really appreciate it
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It's really good, keep up the good work!
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Anytime you have great art work!
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Actually, type design is all about balancing the regular space with the negative space. Not only for the general letter shape but also in the individual details of the letter. That's type design. Typography is how those letters relate to each other. So with modern type design you actually work with space/negative space on 3 levels. You need to make the stroke weight optically the same [1], you need to balance the letter itself [2] and you need to balance all letters in regard to each other [3]. That's in theory. It can be fun to break some of these rules though. For example, humanist/venetian typefaces (the very first typefaces) have very varied widths between individual letters. As you can see in Jenson ([link] ) letters like H and N are very wide while the B is very narrow. Biblon is a typeface which puts most of the weight on one side of the letters ([link] ). So you can definitely deviate from the basic rules as long as you do it consciously and consistently.
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I don't know what to say to be honest, alot of info, awesome stuff! check your notes i'll send you answers on the questions you asked!
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I told you about the weight build-up (or dark spots as I call them) where 2 or more strokes meet but I forgot to tell you how to fix this optical illusion. You can fix this by just reducing the weight of one or more of those strokes in the area where they meet but it's often a good choice to add a so-called ink trap. Nowadays we have pretty good printing techniques so the ink doesn't flow that much but in the letterpress days the ink would flow beyond the area of the letter. Here's an example: [link] As you can see besides becoming more fat, the areas with sharp angles become really tight and as you can see in the picture, the result is that the top of the letter is much too heavy. To fix this you add an ink trap as seen on the left of the picture. These square-like ink traps can also be used for the design rather than the function. It's a detail you can only see when using text at large sizes. Here's a more subtle ink trap: [link] What the designer did there with the K is in principle what you should do to fix this weight build-up. As you can see in the K the arm is thinner where it connects with the stem.
I actually make extensive use of ink traps β mostly subtle but in some cases I make it quite obvious as part of the type's personality. With my Dagon typeface I actually took this idea a step further. I wanted to create a strong, sturdy grotesque typeface with very high weight contrast near the stem. Here's a picture of Dagon: [link]
I also thought this interview with Ludwig Γbele gave some good insights in various aspects of type design and type designers: [link]
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