Custom Centerline fonts

[ChipperBob]

Because no downloadable font had the form I was looking for, I thought the style could be generated by some kind of font creator program. I drew the forms in MS Paint and inputted them into a font design program and it worked. Because the program allowed importing of picture files, I generated a keystroke for the each letter, another keystroke for all the letters together and a keystroke for the rose. The resulting font set was imported to c:\windows\fonts and was used in centerline carving.

The only problem with the rose was the amount of detail but that can be easily fixed. Try carving the attached file and let me know what you think.

[DocWheeler]

Bob,

Since we do not have the fonts you created, all we see are the letters A and F.
To see what you are talking about, which is very interesting, we would need the fonts.

[ChipperBob]

Use A,B,C,E,F,G,N,P,and S. All caps.

[DocWheeler]

Bob,

After seeing your fonts, I recall someone posting a link to get some software to do what you apparently did. I got the software but have not done anything with it.

Thanks for reminding me of something that I had intended to try.

And to think, I had thought that "sometimers" was in the distance:sad:

[DigitalDave]

I'm new to the forum but have been reading and carving about a year now. Mostly I do centerline font signs. No doubt everyone else knew it but I discovered I could dress up my work by using some of the dingbat fonts, most of which carve beautifully in centerline. A good web site to get freeware dingbat fonts is

http://www.dingbats-uk.org.uk/

Dave

[TIMCOSBY]

for creating fonts


http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=22012&sid=3888c857f2734b2880551a362952b7a5

[Kenm810]

Hi Dave,

Welcome the forum

Thanks for the Web site, it looks like a good one
I've worked with a couple of real Digbats in shops before http://www.carvewright.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif

Even a few as text fonts on my computer,
their much easer to get along with. http://www.carvewright.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif

[Jeff_Birt]

Both of these methods produce bitmapped fonts, which will work fine in many cases. The larger you make a bitmap font the worse it will look. There are a few programs out there in the $100 range that are specifically for creating True Type (vector) fonts, you can also create TTFs with CorelDraw but it is really hard to get the spacing correct w.r.t. the rest of a typeface.