I’ve been playing around at Fontstruct some more and made a font for cutting alphabet banner flags in one piece. Seems that banners are quite trendy so I hope you will enjoy using this font with your diecutter.
Fifteen Free Ornamental Wood Type Fonts
Whether you know them by wood type fonts, circus fonts, railroad fonts, western fonts or some other name, these decorative, 1800’s wood type inspired, shadowed typestyles are awfully popular these days.
Still more pre-filled gel pen fonts
All of these are available at fontspace.com. As with the last post, each is rendered at the largest size that will still appear filled in. I’m only printing a few letters of each now for these samples so as to save time and preserve ink.
More filled in fonts
Another batch of pre-filled fonts for your gel pen enjoyment. Be sure to test a letter or two with the font, size and pen you want before committing to the long drawing process.
Pre-filled fonts for gel pens
I had a prior post where I gave a rather contorted procedure for filling in the fonts that you draw with Cricut markers, gel pens, etc. Today I had a better idea. Find fonts that already have a “fill” that works with the Cricut.
Video: Make a font in Inkscape
By popular demand, a video on how to create your own TrueType font with Inkscape. Written instructions, files and more information here.
Character map templates for Inkscape and Illustrator
Back in the day, there was a great free program for the Mac called TypeBook, which I used to print specimen sheets and character maps for my fonts. Unfortunately, it didn’t make the leap to OS X.
Make a dingbat font with Inkscape
Buried in Inkscape .47 is the ability to make your own SVG fonts.
Wordle font chart
I am a big fan of Wordle.net and I made myself a cheat sheet so I could see what the fonts look like.
Pen fonts for your cutter
Now that we all have clever ways to use various pens and markers with our Cricuts, the problem remains that computer fonts aren’t made to write with pens using strokes like a person writes.