1/16/2024 0 Comments Steam punk fontI copy all my source art work to a layer called Working Layer and the model glyph to another layer called.wait for it.Model Glyph Layer. If you accidentally save your file after having butchered a nice bit of art, it's annoying to have to go back out to the net to try to find the original again. It's bad practice to modify your only copy of the source artwork. Now that we have chosen our parts, STOP and make copies! I don't have that many hands to choose from, so lets pick a simple one for the short, inner strokes and a little more interesting one for the longer, outer strokes. Go with something simpler for the center and more complex for the bottom. How to choose? Just grab a few and see what looks right. There are lots and lots of gears to choose from in the source materials. My battles with the pen tool usually go against me, hence my desire to use vector art found on the net for this project instead of drawing it all from scratch.įor the W, we need one or two gears and one or two clock hands. This was a little painful because the pen tool is evil. So, I ended up looking around the net for pictures of clock hands and drawing them myself in Adobe Illustrator. I also needed some clock hands, but was unable to find any free-for-non-commercial-use vector artwork. Gear and Frame Vectors by Zakorath (no longer available for download) Gear Silhouette by (Non-commercial use)īrain Gear Vector by (Attribution required) Vector Gears by OpenGraphicDesign (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License) (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.) I found some really cool stuff, made available by its creators for non-commercial use.Ĭhainwheels Icons Vector by DragonArtz Design. Second, Melissa's glyphs didn't have the geometric precision I wanted for use at very large (>1") sizes.Īfter finding Melissa's font, I started looking for components I could use to create my own interpretations of her glyphs. For me, the speed of vector engraving trumps the design value of the variable stroke width you can get with raster engraving. Although I've done a lot of cool raster engraving using TechShop SJ's Epilog lasers, for a lot of my needs vector engraving is appropriate and it's a lot faster. Melissa's font didn't work as created for me for two reasons:įirst, I wanted an outline font that was designed to be vector engraved (as opposed to a filled font for raster engraving). Melissa made this font as a class project a few years back and it's very cool. The closest thing I was able to find to what I wanted was a True Type font by member Melissa Choyce called "Time to get a Watch". The legal bits: based on some of the sources I used for this work, it is made available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License The smaller ones contains only my final glyphs and while the larger one contains the final glyphs and all the source components for those who might want to roll their own glyphs. I've included a couple of different versions of the Adobe Illustrator and SVG files here. After I was done with it, I figured I might as well share! I'm good with that.I didn't set out to become the next Max Miedinger, but rather to make a fun font for my own use. As such, I expect that anyone who does will look at this work and see many examples of horrifyingly bad type design. That brings up another note of explanation: I know almost nothing about typography. Since this font is meant as a display font and thus usually used only a few "letters" at a time, I didn't consider this a big issue.or at least not an issue big enough to motivate me to dive into the world of real typography. This isn't a True Type font but rather a series of vector "glyphs" that must be manually sized and arranged for use. One note of explanation: what I've made here is not a font in the normal sense of the word. That way anyone who is interested but doesn't like the particular glyph I made can customize to their heart's content. The point of this Instructable, beyond making my font available for people to use, is to show how I made the individual glyphs in the font. After a bit of searching, I found some things tantalizingly close to what I wanted, but nothing that was quite right. I also like the retro-tech feel of clocks and gears and the like, so I thought maybe someone might have made a Steampunk font that I could use. I do a lot of laser engraving on the Epilog laser engraver/cutters at TechShop SJ (three 60W lasers!) and I like to use display fonts that aren't boring on one hand but aren't too fussy to engrave well on the other. Want to add a RetroTech feel to your laser engraving or graphic work? Read on!
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