Alien round font in OTF format for Adobe Photoshop, psp, Indesign ...

This is a font based around a very basic round rectangle line design / abstract shape variation. The font set is for free use, commercial use, all royalty free, all the artworks in the set are by graphicxtras.com / Andrew Buckle. The font format is OTF and the alien round font should be installed via the control panel fonts section on the pc and via the fontbook application on the mac. Access the alien round font shape designs as you would with any font set via the glyphs panel or via the keyboard

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Example in Photoshop using the alien round font artwork character

alien round font design

Select the type tool
Set the font size (say 72pt)
Select the font 'GX Alien round' from the typeface list
Set the color to black
Click document
Type letter 'e' (or any other but e is a decent example)
Move tool
Show transform controls ON
Rotate typed character
Resize the character to fill screen
Flatten layers via the layer menu flatten command
Now go to the magic wand tool and select white (if white is the background color) area (surrounded by black lines)
Select a color via the swatches (foreground color)
edit menu and fill command and set to foreground color and OK
Select new area
Change swatch color / foreground
Option / Alt + backspace (repeats the fill without dialog or just use the edit fill command again)
Repeat over entire design with different colors to fill 'alien round' design

You can also now further modify this by using adjustment layers to re-color all the artwork. You could also apply effects to the artwork such as Analog Efex etc