The last task we had was to design a font. However, remembering a font we had seen earlier we re-traced it for inspiration at it had the right feel we wanted to capture. (The way we described it to each other was a western feel with loose and 'wild' strands coming off the text, similar to the Pirates of the Caribbean logo but more exaggerated and western feeling). We found this perfectly in a font called 'Bleeding Cowboys,' a font we had seen before but quickly realized it was everything we wanted it to be. We contacted the owner, Guillaume Seguin about the possibility of using this font for a educational and commercial purposes and this was the following conversation:
As a very happy customer, we went on to edited our map with this new font. We used the arc tool when writing text in Photoshop to bend the text around the map, and quickly have the whole map nearly finished. (I completed the land masses I designed, the North, Earth and Island, and Callum completed the land masses he designed, The West, South, and the Key).
Our final map is pictured below. I am very proud of this design, and although it looks very much how I first envisioned it I do not consider that a bad thing. Each place is diverse and highly detailed, and has lots of history and lore of this world within. Callum used this Bleeding Cowboys font the produce a new logo with some extra 'strands' he edited himself, to use on this map.
All characters, designs, and logos are Copyright © Callum and Stuart Brown 2014
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