Text / fonts that can be scored – not outlined, not engraved

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Found a good single stroke font, and workflow in Illustrator

A single stroke font allows you to score some text onto your pieces, rather than engrave them. Scores look very sharp, and take a lot less time. I finally found a good free single stroke font, and figured I’d share it and my workflow in Illustrator. The font is here: https://github.com/scruss/AVHershey-OTF. You can easily download a zip file with all the font files by clicking the green “Clone or Download” and then “Download ZIP”. Once you’ve got it, open the .zip file, and install the fonts on…

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

The search for true single line font sets goes on… (They can be scored instead of engraved, which is a HUGE time saver when you have a lot of text to process.) Good news - there’s a way to make them happen. Bad news - it’s very limited for a couple of reasons. First, the only way I’ve found to make them work with Illustrator is through Rhino, which carries a fairly hefty price tag. If you have access to a student or teacher, you can buy the student versio…