#Silkscreen ttf free#

Ray used his copy of Fontographer to make Mac versions of Silkscreen. I then sent the Windows TrueType versions to Ray theMaxx for some conversion.

When the characters were finished for all four fonts, I generated Windows TrueType versions of them. I could have imported the letters as bitmaps, but I wanted to make Silkscreen as precise as possible and also wanted to learn as much as I could about Fontographer. Then I formed the characters into short sentences to determine the spacing for each character.Īfter all the characters were designed in Photoshop, I drew the fonts by hand in Fontographer. After drawing out each character, I played around with different letterforms on several characters before finalizing each one. It turned out that the largest characters were 5x5 pixels (not counting the ascenders and descenders), but most were 4x5 pixels. For each character, I tried to make it as skinny and short as I could. Silkscreen was designed from scratch using Adobe Photoshop 5.02 and Macromedia Fontographer 3.52 on Windows NT 4.0.įirst I used the pencil tool in Photoshop to draw all of the letters. You may have seen Silkscreen on sites such as: Flickr,, Herman Miller Store, Jeffrey Zeldman Presents,, Britney Spears, Volvo Cars, (an experimental site by Adobe), and in The Bourne Legacy. Silkscreen is a popular font and is used on quite a few Web sites. Note that I did not say 'installation problems'.consult your system's help files for assistance in installing fonts. You should especially let me know of any problems you encounter when using Silkscreen.

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#Silkscreen ttf free#

Silkscreen works on the Mac, Linux, and Windows and is free for personal and corporate use. Silkscreen is a typeface for your Web graphics created by Jason Kottke.