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Folks - I am working on guitar #2 and want to do some basic inlays on this one. I bought the Patterson book from Stewmac which is very helpful.
I have spent a lot of time sifting through standard windows fonts and other free fonts available on the net, but cannot find anything that really grabs me.

For starters, I just want to work with alphabetic characters. I want something chunky enough so that I stand a chance of doing it, but would love a bit of curve in it.

This guitar will be for my daughter, so I plan putting the letters of her christian name as fret position markers.(Monique)
I have decided to name my future guitars "JJ" after my dad - so that's going on the headstock.

I love the font called 'Maiden Word' shown at www.ballurio.com/BG/BGCShopInlayChar.shtml
but can't find anything like it.

Any suggestions?
Thanks. Frank.

Type Trust is where I pick up most
of my design fonts now. They're really current (stylish) and well priced.   I
have volupia, musee, and everafter, and use each quite a bit.James Orr39085.8716782407

fonts.com has a huge variety. alas you have to pay for the download.

try abstractfonts.com everything there is free and there are lots to choose from.

One of the cool features with abstract fonts.com is that you can do a dynamic text box so you can put any words or text you want in to see what the font will look like.



Than you can just download the font. It's a great font site.Rod True39086.0129513889

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Thanks Rod!

I have literally thousands of fonts I've collected over the years for my PC -- Microsoft TrueType and WordPerfect mostly. What I did for the headstock inlay on my solitary steel string was choose a font I liked from this inventory, printed it out on my laser printer, then cut it out with scissors, and used it as a template for the inlay. Worked great. And it didn't cost me nuttin.

Best,

Michael

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Thanks for the abstractfonts link, Rod.
John

Thanks for that tip too Michael!

Check out http://www.dafont.com

There's a rather large collection there and it's what I usually dig through
while designing stuff.