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For the Lovers of the Mane six

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September 20, 2011
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I tend to work with fonts almost constantly on a daily basis.
If I'm not placing, browsing or identifying fonts, I'm most likely busy reproducing, modifying or setting them up for various cutting media.
Because of all the years of staring at them, I've (with time) started seeing the unique characteristics that differentiates each typeface and on what layout and media they would work best. Because of this I've truly started to respect and love typefaces and their significance to design and as such I've become pretty adept with them, not a crazy human font-library (like some designers I've worked with), but not too bad either.

With that said, this particular piece was inspired by the 'Font Dogs' picture. For those who haven't seen it yet, it's an image that compared the physical traits of different breeds of dogs to that of different typefaces. It's an image I not only found hilarious, but also very interesting, especially the fact that the visual traits of typefaces could be applied to other things.
And that's when I thought: "Why do they only have to be applied to the physical traits of things, why not mental and personality traits as well?"
And then I figured what better cast of characters to choose from to represent the various different traits between typefaces than the very socially diverse mane 6 of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.
The end result was the mane 6 with these chosen fonts that I feel works well at representing their individual personalities.

'My Little Pony Friendship is Magic' and all related characters belong to Hasbro

PS: I'm so sorry Pinkie Pie... for what it's worth, I still love you...

~ JK
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===Tools Used===
CorelDRAW


===Art Notes===
This was a very quick vectoring session actually. Choosing the actual fonts too way longer than the vectoring process. The minimalist image of the mane 6 is just a base pony template with the different color schemes, accessories and hairstyles added last.
Choosing the font was a bit trickier, though. I didn't want to take the easy route and just choose a tacky font that has butterflies in it and say "It's Fluttershy". Instead, every typeface here is hand picked from my personal experience with them and chosen on the basis of their visual characteristics and design aesthetics relating to the personality of each pony.
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~ExtremeYaoiFanatic Apr 25, 2012
COOOMIIIC... SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!!! :iconbrickdplz:

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You guys realize that the minddistortion crap is easily escapable, right?

So Prussian, I bleed awesomesauce. >:3

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:iconkman-studio:
=Kman-Studio May 2, 2012  Professional General Artist
*shakes fist in the air*



(Heh, one of my favorite games) :P

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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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~ExtremeYaoiFanatic May 2, 2012
I'm glad you found that amusing!!! xD

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You guys realize that the minddistortion crap is easily escapable, right?

So Prussian, I bleed awesomesauce. >:3

tumblr --> [link]

Icon edited from [link]
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:iconsonic-chaos:
~Sonic-chaos Apr 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Seriously what's with all the Comic Sans hate?
I'm afraid to even use it in my comics in case people will rage.

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I miss the 90s ¬_¬

-MLP:FiM The manliest way to get those 'cutesy' feelings out of your system-
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=Kman-Studio Apr 23, 2012  Professional General Artist
Hahaha! :D

The common folk would either not care or dislike it cause everybody dislikes it, but for designers Comic Sans is pretty much a horror show.
This link would explain our general grief with it ---> [link]

As for comic fonts, if you want to avoid the Comic Sans backlash, you could go to Blambot [link] as they have a nice selection of free comic fonts that are very well made compared to that particular windows system default font I shall not name. :)

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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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~Rarity-pie Apr 20, 2012
i think pinkie's should be "Windows" or something...

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Pinkie Pie<3
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~ahumeniy Mar 30, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
lol Comic Sans for Pinkie

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=Kman-Studio Apr 5, 2012  Professional General Artist
Yeeeep! :D

Pinkie Pie: "And that's why Comic Sans is the best typeface!"
Scootaloo: *breaks scooter* "Wait... what?!"
Sweetie Belle: "Don't mind her... she's just being Pinkie Pie..."

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~TryingDutchman Mar 28, 2012
So... comic sans is now acceptable?

this will take some getting used too... Esspecially after playing this game for so long [link]

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=Kman-Studio Apr 5, 2012  Professional General Artist
Comic Sans is never acceptable!

Pinkie's the exception because she breaks the laws of physics and the laws of reality all the time... so we might as well add "breaks the laws of good design" on there as well. :P

Oh.. and...

*waves fist in the air*
Comic Saaaaaaaans! :D

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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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