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

[jestelle]

Hi all,

I know we all love how fast you scan score a design vs. engraving that design. And I’m sure we’re all putting text on things all the time…

So I’m wondering if there’s any good techniques to be able to turn text into something that can be scored rather than engraved or outlined?

It seems the usual approach would be:

1. write some text
2. pick a font
3. choose to either:
   (3a) engrave that text, or
   (3b) outline the text, and score the outline

But I’d love it if I had a few fonts to choose from that were single-stroke fonts…
Does this exist? Any ideas?

I used to work with a lot of typography / fonts nerds, so I’m going to ask them too
But figured I should check in with you all as well.

Thanks,
Josh

[jestelle]

Ok - before people tell me to go search stuff…

I did find this post:

Score Settings Template - useful for One Line Fonts

We all know that time is valuable and scoring text (using a one-line-font) instead of engraving it is one of the biggest time savers that I’ve found. I decided to make myself a stroke settings template similar to this one that kirruu.berry designed for the engrave settings. Here ya go! [TEXT_SCORE_SETTINGS] [20190613_145312_HDR~2] It took me about 15 minutes to map each Score setting and about 20 minutes in the Glowforge. I made sure to label each setting with both its speed and power so t…

And in particular https://www.onelinefonts.com/ which might be the exact answer to my question

[deirdrebeth]

Also:

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…

and

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…

[ekla]

This one from @bill.m.davis is my favorite

Text2Vector (Free Vector Text Generator)

Here is a simple tool (well it started out simple) that I use to generate Vector Text for Scoring on the Glowforge. text2vector_1.1.3.zip (13.9 KB) Edit: This has been hosted at GitHub if you want to use it with the default Kerning Table. https://wmd-glowforge.github.io/text2vector/ Edit: This source has been uploaded to GitHub for anyone to fork or modify if they want to contribute to the tool. It is simply an HTML file that uses JavaScript to generate an SVG of the text you type into t…

[EddieC]

I have used the Text2Vector several times and it works great. I did find another one call CNC Hershey Text Tool. I think the only advantage of the Hershey one is it has a few additional fonts tho I have not used this as much as the Text2Vector. Just wanted to let you know it was out there. Here is the link:

CNC Text Tool

[evansd2]

Hershey text is included in Inkscape. The latest version of inkscape has a few options and supports curved single stroke fonts.