"Daniela Duerbeck" wrote in message

Carrie wrote:

I sometimes put "free fonts" in google and look over the pages, and download interesting ones. You would have to look over them (the samples)

No, I didn't search for a font with this effect, because the posted example is a font where the effect was afterwards somehow applied to. "Please note: the wispy effect in the illustrations were applied to characters from the font but is not part of the font itself." The font itself can be seen here:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fw-image-daddy/balearic-thread/ regular/ So the exciting thing is indeed the effect and not the font itself. :-)

or maybe put in "free fonts, fiber look". You called it sparkly, but I thought
more of fiber.

I was lacking the correct word. In German we call things that make such effects "Wunderkerzen".
If you "write" with such a Wunderkerze into the dark and take a photo with long exposure time you get photos with exactly this effect: http://www.tech-talk.de/2008/08/10/light-painting-mit-wunder kerzen/ So looking at the real photos you can see that the artistic effect applied to the font in the first mentioned picture is pretty much the same. Here is an example how these Wunderkerzen look when not lighted: http://www.karneval-megastore.de/html/product_info.php?produ cts_id=16838&nsctrid=Z2Jhc6dkZac. In this shop they are called "sparklers", so I thought this would be the correct name. Do you know a better english word for them? But they are not "electric", they are lighted with fire.

If people don't know the answer and don't want to comment in a positive way, why bother writing anything.

LOL. :-)))

Greetings from Dani

I don't always know the answer, but sometimes comment (hopefully in a positive way) because sometimes the person asks and no one even comments on it. Maybe they will in time. Sometimes I make a guess (and state this) sometimes I, too would like to know the answer.
That's interestingthe "Wunderkerzen". Even though it's German it sounds like what it looks like.
I call those things you light and they sparkle "sparklers" too. They have some kind of powered gun power lightly attached to them not compressed to explode but just to burn with that effect. I don't know of a better word. I don't understand what those pictures you posted are made from? Oh, I think I see, someone holds the lit sparkler and draws the picture with the camera on, taking the picture of it? "Write with a Wunderkerze/sparkler" like in the air in the dark.
We mainly have these in stores and people have them around 4th of July- Independance Day.
Opening the lens at night and taking a picture of a car (headlights or tailights) coming along a road also gives an effect.
I did think the sparkly looking font was plain font with something added to it. I have paint brushes in PS that look like that (effect)

Daniela Duerbeck

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