What do you think? We see stressed fonts everywhere in good design... Unfortunately, we see it even more in bad design. It seems like it is not really hard to find a stressed font-type these days. Font makers (...or typographists...or whatever you want to call someone who makes fonts...) are flooding websites like dafont.com and fontspace.com with crummy stressed fonts. The example here is put up to really see what people think. To me, this poster is bordering the line of "crummy." It is not yet there, but close. But seeing as we are speaking in terms of text in this blog post, I must say it sucks! Way too many of the letters look the same...
Now, very quickly, let me go over what makes a good stressed font, and what makes a bad one. What makes a bad stressed font is very very simple... REPETITION! The point of a stressed font is for it to look like it has taken on some natural-like elemental texture to it; almost like it has been beaten up to give it character. The problem with majority of the downloadable stressed fonts is that many of the individual letters of the font-styles alphabet look exactly the same. This does not happen in nature, so why should text have the same exact stressed look happening to it? It shouldn't, and that is what makes it a bad stressed font; repetition.
Good stressed fonts are generally NOT downloaded! They are made in photoshop from a combination of the text tool with textures and adjustments... That's it. I am not going to go in depth on the explanation, that is a subject for a whole new blog :) But please let me know if any of you readers are interested in learning, I would love to share the knowledge!
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