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The Font Of Letter Stamps

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I was just thinking aloud and wondered if anyone who uses letter stamps knows what font they have on their sets.

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Crafttools 1/2" letter stamps appears to be a bastardized version of Helvetica which is a very old sans serif font. Their 3/4" sets likely were created by someone who was obviously NOT a typographer as they contain contradictory elements and have no sense of leading or any of the other things important to a font. The one labeled "leather art" is particularly odd. Their "script" font is also bizarre. Considering how useful it would be to be able to stamp names on products, it is disappointing how poorly the 3 sets I have work and look. I've started to cut and finish my personalizations by creating the name via most any font using computer program, Photoshop, Illustrator, even Word. I can scale them to exactly what the work piece. needs apply all typographical conventions, and then print them out on acetate sheets to transfer to leather. I've decided that the alphabet stamps (at least from Tandy) were wasted money.

Robert

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I've been looking at picking up a set of movable type from eBay; fonts are better and a ralck can make spacing names etc much neater.

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I've been looking at picking up a set of movable type from eBay; fonts are better and a ralck can make spacing names etc much neater.

Moveable type, if you can get it in a large enough size, could make an excellent way to stamp leather. After all, printing use to be a "stamping" process. Great idea. I'm going to start looking around.

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