OK so the basic steps:
Get inkscape (or use whatever else you like)
Draw a long skinny rectangle as your vertical riser (draw it exactly to scale), set it to the side.
Use the text tool to type the word “One”. Select the font to be your cursive script, there are lots of cursive fonts out there. I’d say use the font explorer (linked below) that I’ve posted many times to see what you already have, and if none of them work, just google cursive font, you’ll find one.
Now that you have your text in the font you want, scale it up to be the size you want, keeping the maximum glowforgeable area in mind.
Now convert the text object to outlines. Use “object to path”. This will give you a grouped cluster of letter objects.
Ungroup the letters. Now you have a bunch of separate letter path objects.
Select the letters, and choose Path->union. This will make them one merged path. Tahdah, now you have your word as one cuttable object.
Copy and paste the skinny rectangle from before. Align this new copy with your word object. Do the path->union trick to join them too.
Now you have a T-shaped word upright You just need to make your base.
Draw a circle (or whatever shape base you want) at the size you want. Draw a rectangle that’s as wide as your vertical riser and as tall as your material is thick. To make this a snug fit, I’d say back off the both width and height by about 0.005". This will make it fit securely.
These will be handled (moved around on the table and transported), so assemble the base to the vertical element with wood glue holding it in place.
That’s it. Writing this up took longer than it would to actually make it. The first couple will probably be fairly slow, but you’ll speed up.
Things to consider:
Materials: Stick with plywoods, they’ll be much stronger with your delicate font parts.
Dimensions: be careful, don’t make skinny pieces much smaller than about 0.05" (0.1", even better) thick… they’ll be too likely to snap accidentally, and you wont have time to fix them n the big day.
Font explorer link: