New awesome TEXT component FF 14 - How to get the most of it?

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Note that you cannot submit arbitrary text into the Filter Library – all user text strings will be replaced by 'Filter Forge' to prevent abuse.

I think this means that you can not submit a filter to Filter library with any CUSTOM text?? And what about single letters?

Seems like that might get Globes 9x9 pulled from the library. I updated with the new fonts already. Using single letters.Talking about abuse... you could use Globes 9x9 to say bad things or curse words. So, we shall see.

Here's some Unicode painting for fun with Unicode fractions.

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Rachel Duim wrote: Seems like that might get Globes 9x9 pulled from the library. I updated with the new fonts already. Using single letters.Talking about abuse... you could use Globes 9x9 to say bad things or curse words. So, we shall see.

Guess they would have to police that closer or implement something when submitting.

USE THE SCALE COMPONENT AFTER TEXT COMPONENT TO SEE IT BETTER

I have found that when you put a big amount of text, the text component preview is limited, but there is no problem, just simply add a Scale component and preview the result from scale

ANIMATED TEXT

Now is also possible animate text in multiple ways and also use bomber

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Rachel Duim wrote: Seems like that might get Globes 9x9 pulled from the library. I updated with the new fonts already. Using single letters.Talking about abuse... you could use Globes 9x9 to say bad things or curse words. So, we shall see.

well, I think that what is NOT allowed is to submit the filter with included bad words, BUT what the FF user does with the filter is his/her own responsibility and not FF

You can have a car and you can destroy something or kill someone with it, and that does not mean that the car can not be available to buy, so I do not think it will be pulled from library because could write bad things. The same could be said about a simple ball pen, you can write many bad things with it and it is still being available.

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Rachel Duim wrote: Here's some Unicode painting for fun with Unicode fractions.

Great and good creative idea, well done. I think that this opens a new huge world for MODIFYING artistically the letters and fonts with multiple filters and components to get other artistic alphabets and creative visual effects with textures and many more

WITH THE NEW TEXT COMPONENT YOU CAN CREATE ANY KIND OF INFINITE SHAPES, SYMBOLS AND OBJECTS THAT BEFORE WAS HARD TO MAKE

There are a lot of fonts that are based on Dingbats and also has some abstract or geometric shapes and now thanks to the new Text component you can import very easily all these shapes into FF in a very easy way without having to build them using FF components as it happened before in previous versions

For example here above Rachel Duim has shown a great way to import music notes and other unicode symbols

DAFONT DINGBATS EXAMPLES

Scribbles shapes as fonts

Splatter ink as font

Different Artistic stars as font

Arrows shapes as font

There is a huge amount of dingbats and abstract fonts available that could be used

Or you can design yourself a font with the shapes you may want and need

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Rachel Duim wrote: Here is some research into Unicode and special characters. Music symbols are not included in most fonts, so here is a free font that has them called Noto Music.

Thanks really very much for this very interesting and useful information and for showing this that is worthy and great

FF 14 Text compatible as I thought and expected is not compatible with OTF Opentype SVG color fonts but you can make them inside FF itself by using other filters available or make it yourself

HAVE NEON EDGES LETTERS AVAILABLE EASILY

For example, I have found these color fonts that have a colorful gradient edges that may be sharp or soft edge (in FF you can customize it and is the beauty of FF)

Culoare Neon Gradients edges OTF Color font

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As you can see on the screenshot I have just simply used the awesome filter that StevieJ made so well and just only replaced the source image with the Text component and a bold font

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The only problem I see with this way described is that it makes rounded edges from a flat sharp edges font and is not like this example shown above (here repeated)



So the alternative for this is to try a different way and use layers, and have a filled Letter or text string with the gradients you may want using the threshold component and then with another Text component add a smaller sharp letter above the previous one

You can then easily customize the edges of the below image to show it soft or sharp

So it you will have something like this below

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Maybe you want a different edge effect and there are more filters available, just use this link to search "outline thickness" in the filter library and you may find other options

Also there are available also other alternative Neon edges styles in this search of filter library

Or search for Glow edges too in filter library as there are many too

And you can also search for Edge detection on filter library with more options available

I have not tested it myself, but as far as I know, I think that in all these above filters you only need to replace the source image with the text component

And also this other glow made with Lasertime By TomoAlien

I have faux bold and faux italic in the font group at the right before the group outputs in Globes. Minor but useful. Bolding can be converted for outlining as as well.

Filter Forge 14 supports TrueType fonts (.ttf). In both Windows and on the Mac there are many other font types: .otf (Open Type), TrueType collections (.ttc), and other various font types (.dfont, .fon, and more). You can convert these fonts to .ttf by using online tools.

On the Mac and Windows you can use FontForge ( https://fontforge.org/en-US/ ) to create multiple .ttf files from .dfont or .ttc collections. When you load a collection, you are prompted for which part of the collection you want to load. Then to create the single .ttf, go to File/Generate Fonts…/ , then set the output type to TrueType, then Generate. Close this version of the font, then reload the .ttc for each .ttf you want.
Note that the interface requires hitting Return or OK when navigating through folders (no double clicking), a UNIX like UI.

For converting most other fonts, I prefer this tool for converting to .ttf:
https://www.fontconverter.org/
Easy to use, upload the font, start conversion, then download the .ttf.

Be aware that some fonts can’t be converted, the file is protected by a EULA flag.

Location of fonts:

Mac:
/Library/Fonts
/System/Library/Fonts
/Users/<username>/Library/Fonts

Windows:
\Windows\Fonts
\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts

I have thought that I have found a way to be able to use color fonts too additional to the new text component and is based on what Threedee made already with the Arial letters, but instead of using FF letters it would be replaced with a color control so you can load a PNG or JPG of the color font you want to use

This is the Arial font made awesomely by Threedee but replacing the letters with a color control, will make it, test it and see if it works as expected