Single Line Engraving Fonts - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly šŸ¤”

That worked! Rendered fairly quick!

TY :slight_smile:

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The Hershey plugin is more than that one font - it knows how to take a bunch of vector fonts designed by a guy named Hershey and use them in Inkscape for engraves. Itā€™s intended for use on the Eggbot, but thereā€™s no reason that the results couldnā€™t be used on a GlowForge for scoring fonts.

https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/hershey-text-an-inkscape-extension-for-engraving-fonts/

I love how the open source community solves problems.

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I have not seen anyone here who uses it, but the tool ā€œSketchā€ for OSX (https://www.sketchapp.com) has a simple tool

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To convert any font into an outline. Some fonts are better than others for vector engrave, but I have been using this tool successfully inn my cuts.

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Anything I can find thatā€™s a) Free and b) runs on a Mac is a good thing!

It is Mac, it is NOT free :frowning: but it is a good value, at around $100 USD (Last time I got it)

I use Sketch for most work. Great app for Mac that, for me at least, does about 90% of what I used to to in Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop. Sketch has inherited the forgotten Adobe Fireworks user base.

It seems like the AI script I had been using for Single Line Fonts stopped working on newer versions of CC. Thankfully I came across this page with its Inline Text Generator which seems to work pretty well, and gives more font options then the script used to. Iā€™ve seen this site linked here in the forum for box-making, but not for OLF / SLF engraving fonts.

https://www.templatemaker.nl/singlelinetext/

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Nice! That oneā€™s nice.
I use this one too: Text2Vector

Although lately Iā€™ve been relying on cuttle.xyz, which has pretty much perfect support for single line fonts, in a tool that lets you do normal layout like a design tool.

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Here is a site that sells all kinds of things. The link is for the results on single line fonts search. Sign up and get notifications when the have specials. I am on a dollar for a month special/unlimited downloads. Just remember to cancel before the end of the month.

https://www.creativefabrica.com/search/?refinementList[type][0]=Fonts&query=Single%20line%20fonts

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Have you found any of these fonts able to work in Illustrator? Or Inkscape? And produce true single-line shapes?

When I dug into this a bit it seemed like it was easy to find tons of fonts that are stylistically single linesā€¦ but when cutting or scoring are not really a single line.

And while I did find some true single line fonts, it seems like they usually donā€™t really work properly in Illustrator or Inkscape.

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Couldnā€™t tell you. I havenā€™t used those. Iā€™m Too cheap for Adobe.

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