Seth Godin mentioned in his recent blog post on simple typography that certain fonts remind us of something. I’m not a professional. But for to fun it, I tried to reproduce Seth’s first example using PGF/TikZ.

And here is the result (using LaTeX’s standard font Computer Modern).

Below is the code. Just copy and paste the preamble and officialize pretty much anything!

Preamble

\usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{positioning,decorations.markings}

ewcounter{leafs} \tikzset{% leaf/.style={/utils/exec=\setcounter{leafs}{0}, decorate,decoration={ markings, mark=at position 0 with { \draw [bend left=35,fill=black] (0,0) to ++(-0.3,0.02*\sign) to ++(0.3,-0.02*\sign);}, mark=between positions 0.02 and 0.5 step 0.05 with { \draw [bend right=35,fill=black] (0.01*\sign,0.01*\sign) to ++(-0.2-\mult,0.3*\sign+\mult*\sign) to ++(0.2+\mult,-0.3*\sign-\mult*\sign); \stepcounter{leafs};}, mark=between positions 0.54 and 0.99 step 0.04875 with { \addtocounter{leafs}{-1} \draw [bend left=35,fill=black] (-0.01*\sign,0.01*\sign) to ++(0.2+\mult,0.3*\sign+\mult*\sign) to ++(-0.2-\mult,-0.3*\sign-\mult*\sign);}, } }}

ewcommand{\leaves}[1]{% \setlength{\lineskip}{6pt plus 6pt minus 0pt}\lineskiplimit=\baselineskip \def\mult{0.03*\theleafs} \begin{tikzpicture}

ode [align=center] (box) {\uppercase{#1}};

ode [below left=of box] (ll) {};

ode [above left=of box] (ul) {};

ode [below right=of box] (lr) {};

ode [above right=of box] (ur) {}; \def\sign{-1} \draw [bend right=45, fill=black,postaction=leaf] (ul) to (ll) to ++(0.1,0.1) to [bend left=45] (ul); \def\sign{1} \draw [bend left=45, fill=black,postaction=leaf] (ur) to (lr) to ++ (-0.1,0.1) to [bend right=45] (ur); \end{tikzpicture} }



Document

\leaves{everything looks\\{\Huge official}\\{\tiny with tiny leaves around it}}

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