Roughing up the fonts

[jennie_z]

Hi there, long time no see, forum!
On my latest creation I’m tackling something that I’ve never tried before: I want to make a clean version of a font then a rough, distorted version as well, which would look like the same font was neatly hand-painted with a brush. I’ve created brushed fonts (usually using the trace function from Photoshop images) and clean fonts but never in the same family.

How should I tackle this? Should I create the “clean” version first in FCP (version 5.6) and then distort the glyphs manually, each letter at a time (either in FCP or Photoshop/Illlustrator)? or should I create the painted versions, auto-trace, and duplicate the so that I can create a second, cleaned-up version?

Or some other way entirely?

I was kind of hoping there would be an option to add points before randomly moving them in the Glyph Transformer scripts, but there was not! Just using the “random move all” feature did not generate the effect I wanted.

Thanks in advance!
PS: here’s a good example of the sort of thing I am trying to do (Good & Ugly versions)
http://www.letterheadfonts.com/fonts/gunslinger.php

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

I think you will need to use some effects on a clean font in a graphics program, then import the modified glyphs into FontCreator.

[jennie_z]

Thank you! I am testing this now and only having trouble getting the scaling right.
I figured out the multiplier when I use photoshop but I was hoping to use illustrator which is being a bit tricky. Trial and error!