My comment was not really about any specific design, but the whole idea of having a textography derby but allowing people to take actual premade fonts and make a very minor modification or use a photoshop warp and be done. I see now in the above comments that this is specifically allowed, but at that point I don’t see the point of not just allowing the original fonts. I am not good at textography, but it does not seem too difficult to do hand lettering (or at least no more difficult than hand drawing which is necessary in most derbies). Even though it does not fit my comfort zone, I would love to see premade fonts outlawed in future textography derbies. just my two cents.
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I didn’t think you were talking about mine specifically, but I did have a rejection one time on a typography derby for that reason. My hand lettered shirt looked too close to the Seuss font, and I had to resub. I always want to make sure I’m following the rules.
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I think the only true way to do that would be to have folks submit a link to a sketch of their hand-drawn letter as the first comment in their submission. That said, a hand-lettering only derby could be rad.
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The sad part is, my letters are ne’er as consistent as I want them to be. (I do not blame my handwriting teacher, though… she’s a lovely woman.)
Even sadder is the fact that I ended up hand-lettering my entry even though I asked about the other… my tech does not like me, and I couldn’t get it figured out.
Hola
Can I get some feedback on my entry please?:
(you can be mean, no problem haha)
I’m reading about ‘the premade font thing’…
Maybe I can do a 1.2 version of my design, if my current one doesn’t have a chance to get selected.
(I went with it because I thought it fitted the concept)
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In my opinion, your text is too big. A lot of people have trouble with designs that take up the whole shirt. If I’d made it, I probably also would have leaned in to either the silver lining aspect, by coloring it silver, or the iPhone aesthetic that you seem to be going for with the swipe box and emoji. You could make it look like a text message. Good luck!
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I think it’s cute! I haven’t much helpful advice, though… not gotten on a shirt yet, myself.
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Thx for the feedback; all were good sugestions.
What about the ‘premade font dilemma’? (I would love the input of an admin…)
Thx. Is there a link to check your t-shirts submisions?
Usually, fonts are fine, except for a derby like this one. In this case, the instructions at the top say the text must be hand drawn or manipulated.
To check on derby entries, you can see the votes they’ve gotten. If your shirt gets picked to print, it will show up in a sale, usually on Fridays. If you do a direct submission, Woot will email you to tell you if they accept it.
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…the text have a little manipulation, but I guess will be better to do a new take, I’ll try tomorrow.
Is there a way/link to see all my entries, something like this?
https://shirt.woot.com/catalog?q=Krittikae
thanks again!
Not that I’ve found. I started doing this just this January, so…
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@karakenio & @PantherRose
You’ll have a link like that once you get your first print. Woot calls it your catalog.
It doesn’t link to your derby entries, just shirts that get printed.
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That’s what I thought… Thanks. Good to know I’m not Completely nuts! 
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Thx for the replies.
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THANK YOU WOOT WORLD!!! 
That’s why this comment section is good for clarifying rules, not all judgements calls make it back to the primary derby page. I asked what was allowed early on, because I KNOW that people do these things. I get tired of holding myself to a higher standard, then losing out to someone that didn’t appear to follow rules. So, I asked specifically as to methods by which a person can modify a font in very subtle ways. AND… it was allowed. It is better to ask specific questions to clarify VS. stating what you feel is fair or not. I know that is not how the internet works…
Not pointing fingers or trying to be nasty… @kg07 you bring up great points but these get brought up at almost every text only derby, online or offline. I would be SHOCKED if Kate every had a derby that RESTRICTED all use of premade fonts. It would be very difficult to police. I mean, you could easily get around it by using standard font, printing it out, then (poorly) tracing it on paper and scanning it back in. I would be just as surprised if some on here do not ACTUALLY do this…
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