by Jonathan Collins | Oct 3, 2022 | Portfolio, Sports Typography
In late 2019 I was tasked with building a font for the then unreleased typeface for the MLS products under the team’s stewardship. The typeface was a stark difference from the previous typeface, wider, employed additional typeface features like overshoot,...
by Jonathan Collins | Oct 3, 2022 | 1FAN, Portfolio, Sports Typography
The Detroit Lions’ numbers are somewhat difficult to kern automatically because these are slanted. When you place them as vector paths, you have to visually kern since auto-align functions in graphics programs (like Adobe Illustrator) only detect the rectangular...
by Jonathan Collins | Sep 28, 2022 | 1FAN, Portfolio, Sports Typography
Recently, I built out a live type digital font for the Seattle Kraken Jersey letters and numbers for my employer. It is a great privilege to be able to do this since it affects the company’s ability to automate product creation at many functional areas. The...
by Jonathan Collins | Sep 23, 2022 | Large Format Printing, Portfolio
Summary: With a shoe-string budget and zero photography equipment, images required for this project were taken on an iPhone 7 but using advanced editing and color techniques achieved a 16-bit HDR and DSLR camera look. The poster was composed in InDesign with...
by Jonathan Collins | Sep 21, 2022 | Large Format Printing, Portfolio
Summary: From start to finish, Jonathan sourced, edited, masked, and composed a complex and exciting vehicle wrap for the Jacksonville Giants in about 7 hours of work time ready for the production facility to scale for Large Format Printing. This project is unique in...
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