I wrote it after being up for 24 hours. Been chasing typos all day...
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I wrote it after being up for 24 hours. Been chasing typos all day...
I approve.In other news, mudpie you're welcome
Good to know my name will forever be remembered alongside shitty coffee.
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In other news, mudpie you're welcome
This poster is nice and all but has about twenty times as many words on it as it should.
In which case the question is: why are you doing a stupid thing
rude
That isn't an answer.
But he's not wrong (about it being rude).
There's many informational posters that have a lot of text like that. It's not the best advertisment technique, but it's also not uncommon.
It's not about an advertisment technique - Its about why are you doing something that is counter to tf2's artstyle and looks bad? There's nothing stopping you doing that, but I hope you have a better reason than "lol idunno".
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I agree, without any sort of visual hierarchy in the text it all becomes very homogeneous and difficult to read. Doing something a bit more like Hatch Prints, which are text heavy posters but work because of their use of variety:
Also, considering the time period TF2 takes place in, that poster makes even less sense with its choice of fonts as well as design tropes that primarily originated with the advent of computer-aided design. TF2's designs for posters generally look a bit more like they're from the 1950s or 60s (despite the game taking place in the early 70s) but that makes sense in a way considering the visual design of TF2 in general is based on Leyendecker, who was active primarily in the late 40s and 50s.
So, I'd say it's best to base your design on that time period. As such, here's some coffee advertisement examples from the time:
^^^ (keep in mind, this is a Magazine ad, so the body copy text would not be usual for a poster)
I can't find too many good examples of text-heavy posters from the time, but I'd say just take what you can see above and use your best judgement. :]
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Because people are allowed to have fun with the things they make, and you don't have to call them bad for doing it.
It's different in that I would explain to you what's wrong and not say you do stupid things instead.
Why the drama? Its HIS map. He wants to put fun little signs that contradict the dieing artstyle so be it. I think its cool.
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Or you could use one of the sweet coffee posters from the construction pack. /obviousplug.
Joking aside, I can give you a PSD of the coffee posters from that pack, if you're interested of course.
Props for the helpful post Lem, people often overlook type choice when making overlays, and it usually makes them stand out like a sore thumb.
Joking aside, I can give you a PSD of the coffee posters from that pack, if you're interested of course.
Props for the helpful post Lem, people often overlook type choice when making overlays, and it usually makes them stand out like a sore thumb.
I'd established what was wrong in the previous post.
Let me just put this to rest. It's not a big deal, it's one of many posters that will be on the finished map and yes it's not 100% accurate for the time period but it's my artistic vision and at the end of the day, I can make what I want. I accept the critique and have made a simple, artstyle accurate version that will also be on the map, but I also like the text-filled version. Let that be the end of wip thread spam.
