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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - maka - 11-14-2008

I'm planing to get another tattoo soon, and as I tend to aim towards meaning more then esthetics's, I tend to pick text based ones.

To get that little bit of beauty in your text tattoo you need to pick a good font, and this can be a hassle. I didn't feel like browsing thousand and thousand of fonts on-line, clicking a million times to see the font preview, then repeating to get to another font. I then wrote a little program that pretty much did this for me, then saved the image on my computer. Idea is that I'll write a little slide show program, where you can "quick tag" tattoos as you go along, so that you later can have a better look at the once you liked at first glances.

Everyone with a little bit of programming knowledge, in almost any language, can do this in a few hours. What I'm wondering is if it would be interesting to other people. If so, I can spend a bit longer on the user interface, and make it a bit more customizable, then release it.

Features so far is scanning all the fonts on http://www.1001freefonts.com/ and generating an image with the text of your choice. Reason to why I picked that web page is cause that was the first one I found, and I thought it was easy enough coding against their "custom preview text" feature. The slide show app is yet to be made.

If no one answers I'll assume that there is no interest in the app and keep functionality hard coded

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - imported_Ryuuku - 11-14-2008

What about add some Kanji? 侍

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ik2r-myr/kanji/list_jouyou_en_1945.htm

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - maka - 11-14-2008

Might be something for the future. It looks appealing, but I want to embed a very specific feeling. It could be hard for someone like me to "formulate" it with that Kanji, and maybe even feel it when I see the tattoo.

They are cool though, one of the last ones had: "Meaning: Dew, Tears, Expose, Russia", now I call that a multitude of meanings

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - imported_Ryuuku - 11-15-2008

maka Wrote:They are cool though, one of the last ones had: "Meaning: Dew, Tears, Expose, Russia", now I call that a multitude of meanings

ROFL... I never noticed those ones, I keep my eyes on the more simples

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - imported_Sindern - 11-16-2008

Ryuuku Wrote:What about add some Kanji? 侍

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ik2r-myr/kanji/list_jouyou_en_1945.htm

ウェアブー

do it.

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - imported_Jiraiya - 11-17-2008

私はあなたのパンケーキ!

Whos got da maple syrup!?

oh btw, the app sounds cool maka, i'd use it.

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - imported_Sindern - 11-18-2008

パンケーキですか。　　わるいタトゥーですね。

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - imported_Jiraiya - 11-18-2008

ya lost me on the second part :/

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - imported_Sindern - 11-18-2008

"It's a bad tatoo."

わるい　＝　ｂａｄ (warui)
タトゥ　＝　tattoo (tatu)

I know I wouldn't want a pancake tattoo.

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - maka - 11-18-2008

Becoming second nature

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - imported_n0x* - 11-19-2008

How about a tattoo that says "FAT" bolted on yer tummy

hehehehe

Sup *****

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Thinking about having a text-based tattoo? - imported_Sindern - 11-19-2008

http://www.piccdrop.com/images/1227109883.jpg

Get that tattoo on your belly button.

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