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Wellderly Script

Wellderly

For the June 22 New York Times Magazine I was asked to do the lettering for the ‘On Language’ regular feature. The word was ‘Wellderly’, which is a nice come-onbination of ‘well’ and ‘elderly’, meaning the elderly who are in good health.

Get the dash-making script for Illustrator.

To use it:

  1. Unzip the above file noting where it extracted ‘wellderly.jsx’
  2. The script is currently not very robust, in Illustrator, you need to make sure:
    1. All type is converted to outlines: menu “Type/Create Outlines”
    2. Paths are not grouped: menu “Object/Ungroup”
    3. Compound Paths are fully released: menu “Object/Compound Path/Release”
  3. Select the paths you’d like to apply the script to
  4. Go to menu “File/Scripts/Other Script…”
  5. Navigate to the file ‘wellderly.jsx’
  6. Set the values that the dialog boxes ask for

7 Responses to “Wellderly Script”

  1. On July 30th, 2007 at 19:17, mike little said:

    hi
    i just saw this yesterday morning!
    take care
    mike

  2. On July 31st, 2007 at 22:04, Dr. Kobra said:

    very nice

  3. Haha very cool

    On Language is a great column, and i really admire both yours and Will Safire’s work

    keep it up!!

  4. Very cool lettering design. I actually own wellderly.com website and currently parked it until I figure out what exactly I want to do with it. I like your graphic design. I’ll have to keep you in mind in the future when I develop my site.

  5. On October 10th, 2008 at 23:15, David said:

    What a beautiful piece of art. Can you explain how it is that you did what you did? Was there coding in there, or just a lot of tedious pixeling?

    All best!
    db

    • I started by offsetting the outlines of the letterforms in Illustrator so the paths filled in the letters. Then I used a script I wrote to style the lines with random colors and different sized dashed lines. After running the script on multiple copies of the word, I choose the letters that I liked best and cobbled them together.

  6. On February 23rd, 2009 at 19:53, DegreeGirl said:

    Thanks for explaining how you did the lettering for wellderly. What I especially liked about your art was that the design looked like something a granny might use. I don’t know if I’m saying it right, but the artful lettering seems to match the subject matter to a “t”.

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