This is what I ended up with:
The final design is approximately 11'x6' with ten different quotes. I used Oracle 358 because the wall is textured and I wanted to be sure it would stay.
Hanging a wall like this is a huge undertaking and I learned a lot doing it. If I could go back, I probably would do a few things differently. Things like I pieced more than I had to because I was worried about making sure the quotes were spaced properly. I would try harder to not piece in the middle of words. Some of those black boxes are in three pieces and took some clean up time with an Xacto knife to get them looking like they should. I might even have gone to full outdoor rated vinyl as well. Textured walls just don't like vinyl. It's hard to get it to stick.
The design was a challenge, but I'm very happy with how that came out. I looked for inspiration for quote walls on the internet but just about everything is plaques or only has one or two quotes on it. There just wasn't anything like this out there. I could have used more quotes, but I wanted the letters to be large and have a big impact. The boss said to "use lots of fonts" which is customer speak for "make it interesting, please." You might notice there's only two fonts here, Playball and Potterybarn. I added visual interest with the black word boxes. Playball was a dream to work with. Loved it. Potterybarn looks great and paired beautifully with Playball but those serifs drove me nuts.
I enjoyed this job. It was a challenge to do the physical work, but I loved best getting to exercise my creative muscles. I love working with fonts. It's amazing what beautiful things you can make just with text. Words are lovely, aren't they?
That is a lot of vinyl! That would be a lot of work--the planning and the putting up! It looks great. :)
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