[Magazine] Tip for using the Molot font in featured images

[Paul W. Frields]

There are a number of us who help with featured images on the Magazine
articles.  The images help the articles look attractive on social
media and invite people to visit and read.

Here's a tip for using the Molot font in your images.  I picked this
tip up silently from Ryan, by looking at some of his work.

I typically use Molot for emphasizing words in a technically focused
post, or for very important text.  Molot's default spacing is really
wide -- abnormally so, in a way that doesn't look very attractive
IMHO.

When I use Molot for more than one word on a line, I use Inkscape's
word spacing tools to *reduce* the between-word spacing to a more
reasonable size.  It makes the headline look more attractive.  For
this reason, I also use Molot sparingly.

That being said, this is just my $0.02 and I'm very happy to see that
other folks are helping pitch in with featured images.  Nice work
everyone!

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[Marketing] Re: [Magazine] Tip for using the Molot font in featured images

[Justin W. Flory]

On 06/15/2016 12:05 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  There are a number of us who help with featured images on the
> Magazine
>  articles.  The images help the articles look attractive on social
>  media and invite people to visit and read.
>
>  Here's a tip for using the Molot font in your images.  I picked this
>  tip up silently from Ryan, by looking at some of his work.
>
>  I typically use Molot for emphasizing words in a technically focused
>  post, or for very important text.  Molot's default spacing is really
>  wide -- abnormally so, in a way that doesn't look very attractive
>  IMHO.
>
>  When I use Molot for more than one word on a line, I use Inkscape's
>  word spacing tools to *reduce* the between-word spacing to a more
>  reasonable size.  It makes the headline look more attractive.  For
>  this reason, I also use Molot sparingly.
>
>  That being said, this is just my $0.02 and I'm very happy to see that
>  other folks are helping pitch in with featured images.  Nice work
>  everyone!
>  
This is super useful feedback - thanks for sharing! Will keep in mind 
when working on any future featured images. :)

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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
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