Do Interesting Things With Fonts – And More

   Grunge fonts are all the rage these days. These are fonts which look pretty, well, grungy, but are very interesting and certainly draw the attention of the reader to their presence.
   You can pay a lot of money for a grunge font or two or you can get Auto F/X's Typo/Graphic Edges and turn any font you have into a grunge font. The best news is you can do a whole lot of other things with this program and create an almost limitless variety of font effects with the program.
   In case you're wongering what a grunge font is, here is an excellent example.

result is here for all to see.
   You want to know the truth? This font looks something like a guy my youngest daughter used to date (Used is the operative word here).
   Well, whatever. That's an old story but consider the way Type/Graphic Edges changed this font – one of the cleanest fonts there is. The effect is exactly what we were looking for and it took a total of about two minutes to do, including the time it took to open PhotoShop (Typo/Graphic Edges is a plug-in for PhotoShop, but will work with other programs which are plug-in compliant to PhotoShop.
   As we said, there are a great many other things you can do with Typo/Graphic Edges than just create grunge fonts. As here, for instance, where we have merely warped our font a little bit, using another of the

manual which explains how all the controls works and gives a preview of all of the effects templates which are available. It is in a large format, about the size of Life magazine, which makes it very easy to compare the different effects.
   Frankly, if Typo/Graphic Edges did nothing other than make some very interesting fonts, it would be well worth the money. However, it will do more. It is designed to take any bitmap-type illustration and apply the same effects to them.
   Consider what we have done to our PCM logo here. This was done as quickly and simply as the font

Photo/Graphic Edges with this file: we applied the effect vertically only, rather than horizontally and vertically. Note how clean the side ofthe "M" is. This is just a sample of how you can tweak the settings in Photo/Graphic Edges to get some very, very interestig things.
   A really nice program that you can do a lot with and which can do a lot for you.

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