What are we looking for?

We are looking for art that creates pieces of Typography using Vector.

If your work does not contain both of that, it will be denied!

We understand that sometimes the Typography part of your work might have bad readability (hidden texts). If you do submit a deviation like this, we appreciate a little comment along with the submission

Typefaces are Vector per definition. That is why we do accept usable typefaces as well as vector-based font designs.

Since fonts are Vectors, some words written in Helvetica or any other font on a solid colored background count as Vector. But we do expect a bit more than that in this group

We prefer a more illustrative approach to Typography. This can be a self-drawn font or an edited typeface.  It can be a text with interesting vector effects. It can be a typographic illustration from scratch. There are no limits to how much you can add to your illustration.

This group is dedicated to typographic Illustrators, who use vector tools to create their art.

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Pure Vector

In this folder belong only deviations that are pure vector. They are created in a vector-based program, such as Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Inkscape and Flash. The original art files are infinetely scalable and are only saved as bitmap graphics to be viewable by someone who does not own a vector-based program.

If your work contains raster elements, it is not infinetely scalable without loss of quality and therefore belongs into the "Mixed Media" folder; (read on to learn more about this).

Mixed Media

A medium is the tool you created your artwork with.
In traditional art this might be oil colors and brushes or a pencil.
In Digital Art we seperate between raster and vector work. Raster can be a Photo, a Scan, Digital Drawing/Painting/Airbrush, Pixel Art or Vexel. Apart from Vector itself, Theoretically 3D artwork can be Vector, too. If no bitmap/raster textures are used in your file.

It is pretty simple:
When you create raster work, the file you save it as for view (.jpg, .png or .gif) can never become bigger than the size you create it in without a loss of quality. It can always become smaller tho.
When you create a vector work, the "file for view" can be as big or as small as you want it to be. The quality stays the same. It is infinitely scalable!

When you combine raster and vector elements you create a Mixed Media artwork, which loses its scalability.

There is one rule to this folder: one of the media used has to be vector. And preferrably the most used media in the artwork.
You can go by this in many different ways. A lot of artists enhance the look of their vector work by adding a scanned, photographed or self-made-bitmap texture on top of it. Others add the Vector elements into a Photo. You can use raster (Photoshop) brushes to add a mask or vignette to your Vector. There are many ways to combine raster and vector elements to combine stunning art.
If you are using Adobe Illustrator, you can use is "Livetrace" option to turn a bitmap into a vector. We suggest you only use this option to turn a texture into vector. Using it on a complex image, like a photograph of a landscape would not result in good looking results and be something very lazy to do. A livetraced texture overlay would of course be submitted to the "100% Vector" folder.

On the other hand Livetrace is a great option to turn the outlines of an inked drawing you created, into a vector line art. You can then easily edit the outlines, add a new stroke or fills to the livetraced image. (This works best when the scan consists of only 2 colors. You can edit the picture in Photoshop to achieve this.) This would be "100% Vector" as well.

Typefaces

Are usually 100% Vector and very welcome in this group Despite the fact that they are 100% Vector they have their own folder.
We accept both design-only and usable fonts. This means: it has to work either in one color or be created with vector means.

• Usable fonts usually come as .otf or .ttf  and can be found on dA in Resources & Stock Images > Fonts
• Font Designs are uploaded to Digital Art > Typography > Font Designs

Logos & Logotypes

Logos should be created as vector objects and thus fall into our "Pure Vector" category. Oftentimes a logo contains letters or is made out of letters. Such deviations are accepted as well and have their own folder.
They do need to contain type of some sort though, to be accepted.