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I tend to work with fonts almost constantly on a daily basis.
If I'm not placing, browsing or identifying fonts, I'm most likely busy reproducing, modifying or setting them up for various cutting media.
Because of all the years of staring at them, I've (with time) started seeing the unique characteristics that differentiates each typeface and on what layout and media they would work best. Because of this I've truly started to respect and love typefaces and their significance to design and as such I've become pretty adept with them, not a crazy human font-library (like some designers I've worked with), but not too bad either.

With that said, this particular piece was inspired by the 'Font Dogs' picture. For those who haven't seen it yet, it's an image that compared the physical traits of different breeds of dogs to that of different typefaces. It's an image I not only found hilarious, but also very interesting, especially the fact that the visual traits of typefaces could be applied to other things.
And that's when I thought: "Why do they only have to be applied to the physical traits of things, why not mental and personality traits as well?"
And then I figured what better cast of characters to choose from to represent the various different traits between typefaces than the very socially diverse mane 6 of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.
The end result was the mane 6 with these chosen fonts that I feel works well at representing their individual personalities.

'My Little Pony Friendship is Magic' and all related characters belong to Hasbro

PS: I'm so sorry Pinkie Pie... for what it's worth, I still love you...

~ JK
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===Tools Used===
CorelDRAW


===Art Notes===
This was a very quick vectoring session actually. Choosing the actual fonts too way longer than the vectoring process. The minimalist image of the mane 6 is just a base pony template with the different color schemes, accessories and hairstyles added last.
Choosing the font was a bit trickier, though. I didn't want to take the easy route and just choose a tacky font that has butterflies in it and say "It's Fluttershy". Instead, every typeface here is hand picked from my personal experience with them and chosen on the basis of their visual characteristics and design aesthetics relating to the personality of each pony.
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1500x1710px 418.98 KB
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