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The first two need a lot of work on them, with the TPM one the P cuts into both the top bar and H and the M cuts into the top bar too, the bottom bar also has also got a rather unpleasing thickness on the side.

There's nothing wrong with bending the rules about changing the letter sizes to create effects but you should try to avoid over clumping the letter forms, give them a bit of room to breath and they will look easier on the eye.

The J in Jedi looks very strange indeed, does it lack a left serif counter in the typeset you have or did you adapt it to look that way?

The bar under THE is jabbing it in the tail too.

Now you are beginning to see why it takes so long to train as a typographer and why they get paid so well, it is an artform in itself.

Keep working on it I'm sure if you balance out the spacing and the size of the lettering you will be able to get something that matches both your ideas and looks good.

Gillean said:

I was actually considering posting a tutorial exactly on this topic earlier this week, so apparently there is interest. I'll have to think more about it.

I'm quite interested indeed - I can't get the thicknesses of the outlines to match properly at all, and if I use Photoshop's contract-selection tool, I get too many rounded edges where there should be sharp edges, and I'm too lazy to go fix them all myself.  I suppose I'll have to end up doing that eventually, though ...

The wonky one at the bottom looks kind of interesting (hopefully by mistake).

It looks like some kind of Sam Peckinpah space opera (either that or a blackmail note from a Star Wars geek).

It could become more wonky and coloured in for a Saul Bass style title sequence.