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| Author: | vandenboom [ Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:35 pm ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | James Orr [ Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:53 pm ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | crazymanmichael [ Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:18 pm ] |
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fonts.com has a huge variety. alas you have to pay for the download. |
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| Author: | Rod True [ Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:07 pm ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:33 pm ] |
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Thanks Rod! |
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| Author: | Michael McBroom [ Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:41 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | JohnAbercrombie [ Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:17 pm ] |
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Thanks for the abstractfonts link, Rod. John |
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:30 am ] |
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Thanks for that tip too Michael! |
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| Author: | Jocafa [ Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:29 pm ] |
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Check out http://www.dafont.com There's a rather large collection there and it's what I usually dig through while designing stuff. |
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