Because Everything Reminds Me of Saiyuki

[chomiji]

It's probably just me, but somehow, everytime I see a still of Jodie Foster in her new journalist-turned-vigilante flick The Brave One, she seems to be channeling her inner Sanzo - at least enough that she could do a helluva job cosplaying him ... .

Separated at birth, perhaps?

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*tickles more*

You're very welcome.

And SO HOT as well! I love seeing actresses like that who age and just get more and more attractive. And then I tell myself that I have whatever look-hot-at-whatever-age genes they do.

This is actually the first icon I found with Sanzo that I was like... wow, pretty... and apropos text! What about the font gets you? What would you have chosen? I have to admit, the main thing that bugs me is when the text is really unreadable, or actively ugly.

[chomiji]

;-)   There are moments when it's a challenge to look at myself in a mirror, I gotta say ... .

Re the font: the artist actually had room to go up a point size or two, or to use a slightly greater letter spacing, either of which would have made the text more readable. Also, a font with strong verticals like that can fall down where it has diagonals, at that small a size - as this one does, with those lowercase w's.

Oddly enough, my PC at work (the one that died, anyway) had better font-handling in Photoshop than this Mac does. I thought it was supposed to be the other way around. It may be the versions of some of the fonts that are the issue. There are some reasonable sites for downloading free fonts on the web, and icon makers ought to experiment a bit more to find fonts that work well at small sizes.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

You have some good points. And yes, I wish icon makers would take a little more time to play with which fonts look good, and what sizes are actually readable.