Let’s fix the weird lines that connect everything and close the paths. Much better! We’ve nearly got our clean single-stroke engraving font. We just need to set the fill to none, and give it a thin stroke. Remember that fonts are typically outlines that are filled with a color. I found Machine Tool Gothic, which looks a bit weird when you first select it, but we’ll fix that. You can manually go in and delete the overlaps, but it’s a time-consuming pain, and you’ve got better things to do. This takes longer, and cuts your material twice. If you use this font to laser etch, it will double up, which mean you’re lasering the same thing twice.
I found these CamBam fonts, which probably work quite well for a spinning bit that is cutting material, but there’s an issue:Īll the fonts are built using a 100% overlap in the font design, which tricks my TrueType font design program into thinking they are really looped TrueType fonts, when they really don’t have an inside and outside loop.Ī spinning bit cutting material is quite different than a laser cutting material. I use Hershey text often, and it’s lovely, but let’s keep exploring… Since going really fast is our goal, this doesn’t work.Īt this point, you may be thinking “No problem! Our pals at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have us covered with Hershey text, and engraving font!” Indeed, Hershey text is awesome, but not always the right solution. You could laser etch this (and some people do) but you’re now outlining the letters instead of just etching them with a single stroke. Here’s the normal font with the fill set to none and the stroke (outline) set to a thin line. In this case, the outline of the font is filled with black and you see what you normally see when viewing a font on a computer screen. Fonts consist of an outline which is then filled with a color.
If you’re doing 3,000 pieces, the time can make a huge difference! Raster etching takes a long time, and vector etching (basically doing a low-power vector “cut”) is fast. You can raster etch the type, or “vector etch” the type. When laser etching, any font could be used. You’d think that would be an easy thing… Well, keep reading. I needed a single stroke font for some laser cutting.
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