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Ruby Inferno

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K9 Morphed said :
Profiled. Nice work guys. I'll be sure to use this a few times in the future as it has some stuff i'm not the best at. -cough- swirls -cough-

Oh; should I add a tutorial for swirls? I can do them pretty easily.

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03-Apr-2013 00:40:11

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2022

A lightning

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I do have a few suggestions if you guys are willing to listen.

On the soft-hyphen,
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• You must start a line with a character before using a soft hyphen, otherwise they will not work until after the first character.

- Not entirely accurate. The soft-hyphen is tricky to work with because it looks different to different browsers.
Internet Explorer can always see the soft hyphen, even without another character at the start of the line.
Chrome and Safari can only see the soft-hyphen when there's a character at the beginning of the line
Firefox can never see the soft hyphen. It doesn't matter if there's another character at the beginning of the line.

Firefox is a popular browser that many people use, so you should at the very least have a warning for those people.
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You refer to alt-codes several times before explaining what they are and how to use them. This may be acceptable, but it seems strange to me.
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¸,•º´`º•,¸....¸•°°•,
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There's no easy way to say this, but frankly these examples don't look very good. This is of course, an aesthetic opinion, and I normally wouldn't bring it up, but on the signature making sticky, I think its important for people to follow a good example.

If you slightly edit them you can get something like this:
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¸,•º´`º•¸....¸•°•¸
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Again, its an opinion and you may disagree with me.

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You use a different definition of transition from the traditional use. There's nothing necessarily wrong with how you use the word, but it may confuse older ASCII artists. Traditionally, a transition is any wave that flows from line to line -- not necessarily changing direction
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03-Apr-2013 01:32:00 - Last edited on 03-Apr-2013 01:58:56 by A lightning

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A lightning

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Just a few things to add that didn't fit into my last post.

- These are just suggestions and I can't make you follow them, but I request that you at least add the alt-code information. It's the only completely factual mistake I spotted.
- As far as aesthetic opinions go, I'm purposely viewing this guide in Internet Explorer 10, which is what I assume most people will be using. It kind of looks like you may have created this in a different browser, and certain characters [I]do[/I* look different on different browsers, causing signatures to appear slightly off for some people.
- Finally, good job again! I appreciate that you both gave up your own time to put this together

03-Apr-2013 01:57:15

Ruby Inferno

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@A Lightning: Thank you for your feedback, I will edit the strikethrough/loop guide a bit, but I'm just wondering how exactly do you think the example doesn't look good?
As for the alt spacing, Icey made that; I use Firefox so I can't see alt spacing, I will inform him of your post when I can. Icey also made the flowing guide and the transitions.

Edit: Also, your example of a better strikethrough looks a little off-centred. You either use a different browser to me, or are too far zoomed in. Press control (ctrl) and 0 at the same time to revert to the standard zoom of your browser.

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03-Apr-2013 02:28:47 - Last edited on 03-Apr-2013 02:47:48 by Ruby Inferno

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Kookycat

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Interesting... I like this guide. ^_^

I used to make signatures a year and-maybe-around-a-half ago. After the big font change to Verdana I sort of just gave up. Really didn't like the font, and couldn't be bothered to really learn all over again.

Decided I would visit the forums again and sure enough I'm seeing amazing colours and a guide to making signatures in this font. Thought I might spend a little time seeing if I could create one.

03-Apr-2013 02:48:07

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A lightning

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I'm using default zoom (100%) on internet explorer 10. I'm not sure what you're using, but I chose this because I assume that it will be the most commonly used by new artists.

¸,•º´`º•,¸....¸•°°•,
..............'º‹;¸¸,›º´ ‹-- Here the lines seem to meet at a point instead of a curve
..................'°•,¸¸,•°´
............../Again, it looks more like a point than a curve coming out of the strikethrough.

Finally, the first transition doesn't seem to flow too well. Your lines overlap a bit.

I see what you mean about my strikethrough and I did make that example in firefox... Does this look better to you?

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...............`‹;¸¸,›'
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03-Apr-2013 03:19:27

Ruby Inferno

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A lightning said :

¸,•º´`º•,¸....¸•°°•,
..............'º‹;¸¸,›º´ ‹-- Here the lines seem to meet at a point instead of a curve
..................'°•,¸¸,•°´
............../Again, it looks more like a point than a curve coming out of the strikethrough.

I see what you mean by those lines meeting at a point rather than a curve; I will fix those.

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I see what you mean about my strikethrough and I did make that example in firefox... Does this look better to you?

¸,•º´`º•¸.....,-**.
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This bit \/ seems to have a bit of a space from the second line.
¸,•º´`º•¸.....,-**. ‹-- This symbols in this part seem a little unusual.
...............`‹;¸¸,›'
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I have fixed the strikethrough guide; does it look better now? Thank you for the feedback by the way, it's really helpful.

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03-Apr-2013 04:08:47

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Kutoros

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Lovely guide, will take some time making mine!

03-Apr-2013 05:08:41

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2008

Iceberg

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@A lightning
Thank you for the various feedback that you've been providing us with.

I'd just like to go a bit more into the soft-hyphens however. You're indeed right in what you've said but I wrote the post in the way that I did due to the majority of internet users using a browser which only allows this. 50% of internet users now use Chrome, and it's rapidly increasing from 37% like it was last year. I do see however that an indication may however be needed for other browser users, as statistics can change, so thank you for pointing that out.

I'd also like to thank you for pointing out about the transitions. I put direction instead of line, which must've been an identification that it was too early in the morning.

I wouldn't class anything as a ''perfect signature'' as we all see perfect in a different way. The primary purpose is to ensure that the information is there, but again, thank you for the feedback.

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03-Apr-2013 07:49:34

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A lightning

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@Smug Git
If my example had too much space between lines, and yours had too little, then I think its safe to say we're seeing them slightly differently. The strikethrough guide does look better now; thanks for listening

@IceyNut
I wasn't aware browser statistics had changed so mush in the last 12 months that more people now use Chrome than Internet Explorer. Still though, about 20% of people use Firefox and since they can't see alt-spaces at all, they could be very confused reading that section...
I agree with you about there no such thing as a perfect signature. Thanks for listening to my feedback

03-Apr-2013 16:47:44

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