Metal Symbols/Glyphs/Aons

[SOM1else he/him]

Have any of you seen any Image of the Metal Symbols or Glyphs or Aons that are pretty big (+6 inches)? I want to paint them on my wall but I havent seen any bigger then a few centimeters. If you don't know where I could find them do you have any sugestions on how to make them or draw them? so far I have been cutting the Metal symbols out of a Paint document and resizeing them in MS Word, they come out really fuzzy and It's hard to get the scale right though. I havent been able to find any pictures of the aons online either but if you know where some are please tell me.

[Joe ST he/him]

The metal symbols I have as SVG so you can scale them as big as you want. Here you go.

(If this isn't allowed, then feel free to remove my post/the attachment)

EDIT: see lower post for new symbols.

[SOM1else he/him]

The metal symbols I have as SVG so you can scale them as big as you want. Here you go.

(If this isn't allowed, then feel free to remove my post/the attachment)

Thanks, how do I download/open that file though? if I click it it says I dont have permission to view attachment.

[Chaos he/him]

Thanks, how do I download/open that file though? if I click it it says I dont have permission to view attachment.

Sorry about that. Should work now.

[SOM1else he/him]

Thanks Chaos, it works now. Would you mind telling me how to make a file like that, Joe?

[Joe ST he/him]

A program called Inkscape.

And those files are 'wrong' in that I'm now going through them making them better.

I also started on the aons, but I already had nice black/white versions of the metals, whom someone had traced as svg's like mine, but then mistakenly rendered as rasters.

EDIT: Here's the newer versions

_metals.zip

[Joe ST he/him]

In fact, if people want to generally start finding pictures (book scans, official art, fanart, etc) of anything, I'm quite happy to attempt to trace it.

[SOM1else he/him]

I dont have Elantris and someone is borrowing my copy of WoK right now, but I found the Glyph Chart on a wiki here.

[Joe ST he/him]

What I wouldn't mind is the symbols for the god-metals (and I dont *know* if/that those that I have are correctly named etc, would be a great help if someone could confirm that). I've started trying to trace the Herald's symbols too. It's much harder when it's not easy >.>. lol

[Chaos he/him]

What I wouldn't mind is the symbols for the god-metals (and I dont *know* if/that those that I have are correctly named etc, would be a great help if someone could confirm that).

It's kind of hard for me to confirm it for you when they aren't in the file Plus, I can't open SVGs. Maybe include .jpg's as well as .svg's in the .zip for those of us who can't do vector artwork.

But, the symbols on the old Table of Allomantic Metals are correct. However, on that image that's floating around, lerasium was spelled--incorrectly--as "larasium". That is not the right spelling. The correct spellings are "lerasium", "atium", and "malatium". The atium and malatium symbols are the same as in MB3.

(I have the final version of the Table of Allomantic Metals, so I can just look at it. Though malatium isn't included in it)

Edited April 16, 2011 by Chaos

[Link Von Kelsier Harvey he/him]

I was wondering where that misspelling came from.

[Zas678 he/him]

I was wondering where that misspelling came from.

From HoA Q&A

The man who died before Vin took over was named Leras. (I've occasionally written it as Laras. I've said the names in my head for years, but I'm only now writing them down as people ask me on forums.)

[Link Von Kelsier Harvey he/him]

Dude Zas, you are crazy.

[Zas678 he/him]

Sorry! It's just habit by now!

Which reminds me...

Barnes & Nobles Q&A:

I do like to work on multiple projects. During those early unpublished years, I was always hopping from book to book, and it became habit for me.

[Zayde he/him]

It's kind of hard for me to confirm it for you when they aren't in the file Plus, I can't open SVGs. Maybe include .jpg's as well as .svg's in the .zip for those of us who can't do vector artwork.

You can open and view the files with Firefox. But if you want to send it through photoshop or something, you'd need to do something else, like crop a screen cap of it.

[Joe ST he/him]

since Eric *still* hasnt updated the wiki to allow me to upload SVG's, here's a .zip of the ten Herald symbols,

heralds.zip

[KChan she/her]

Instead of allowing non-mainstream files, perhaps converting them to .jpg or .png format would be better. Just a suggestion. That would make them more accessible, and it's a bit of a turnoff when one's computer doesn't even recognize the image type without an extra program installed.

[Chaos he/him]

Instead of allowing non-mainstream files, perhaps converting them to .jpg or .png format would be better. Just a suggestion. That would make them more accessible, and it's a bit of a turnoff when one's computer doesn't even recognize the image type without an extra program installed.

I agree. They are a lot easier to edit that way. Why not include both?

[Joe ST he/him]

if you want the standard rasters they're all uploaded to the wiki already, they're the one's I traced. The whole point of the vector's are that they're scalable. and they're pretty mainstream...

[Chaos he/him]

if you want the standard rasters they're all uploaded to the wiki already, they're the one's I traced. The whole point of the vector's are that they're scalable. and they're pretty mainstream...

It'd just be really handy to have all the PNGs in one place too, if you could zip them up, is all I'm saying. For us Photoshoppers who can't open SVGs in our favorite image editor...

[Joe ST he/him]

Sorry I dont have a copy of the rasters any more, they got deleted after I finished the tracing.

[KChan she/her]

It's actually ridiculously easy to save them as .pngs; that's how I've been working with them for the site. So here you all go: rasters of the metals. As a bonus to you, I had already made them transparent in Photoshop for extra usability.

metals.zip