Rockoboy Posted October 12, 2018 Report Posted October 12, 2018 On 11/10/2018 at 3:21 PM, RockyAussie said: I am wanting to know if anyone has a downloadable font for the Ivan alphabet stamping sets in either 8132-00 or the 8131-00 I scrolled through a lot of different fonts, maybe around a thousand or more to identify this font. The closest I was able to find was called Classic Western. Quote Kindest regards Brian "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you are right" Henry Ford Machines: Singer 201p, Kennedy, Singer 31K20, Singer 66K16 ("boat anchor" condition), Protex TY8B Cylinder Arm (Consew 227r copy), Unbranded Walking Foot (Sailrite LSV-1 copy)
Contributing Member LatigoAmigo Posted October 23, 2018 Contributing Member Report Posted October 23, 2018 (edited) On 10/11/2018 at 8:00 PM, RockyAussie said: Now what I want to do is print out the letters to size from a font that is the same as the set and then shave the stamps down in order be able to put them up against each other and stamp a few letters in my clicker press at the same time. The amount of shaving needed will vary depending on the letter pairings. This table demonstrates the kerning attributes of various letter pairs, where you can see, for example, that VA uses different spacing (-123 / tighter) than VT (+16 / looser). Hope you find this helpful. Edited October 23, 2018 by LatigoAmigo Quote
Members Bigjake80 Posted November 11, 2018 Members Report Posted November 11, 2018 I have used the font SaddleBag from https://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=saddlebag Quote Check us out on Facebook
RockyAussie Posted December 4, 2018 Author Report Posted December 4, 2018 On 13/10/2018 at 7:30 AM, Rockoboy said: I scrolled through a lot of different fonts, maybe around a thousand or more to identify this font. The closest I was able to find was called Classic Western. Hey Brian, thanks for the trouble. I thought I was going to be able to use the Saddlebag font shown below by @Bigjake80 (Thanks Bigjake) but on checking on what claimed to be Free to use on some font site, Deiter Steffmanns page appears to say otherwise. I decided that it would not help much with what I wanted to do between laser files and 3d print files etc so I decided to make my own. THAT took a lot of learning and time and mistakes I can assure you. I hope to come up with a metal set of letters for my font in the near future. The advantage is I can type it out to show a customer and then laser cut the outline if I want or just place the letters against each other and stamp out the words. On 23/10/2018 at 3:23 PM, LatigoAmigo said: The amount of shaving needed will vary depending on the letter pairings. This table demonstrates the kerning attributes of various letter pairs, where you can see, for example, that VA uses different spacing (-123 / tighter) than VT (+16 / looser). Hope you find this helpful. Thanks for your input on this point @LatigoAmigo. After a LOT of playing with the letter style and spacings between each letter I have come up with a font that seems to work well with most every thing I have thrown at it so far. (still early days yet though) There is no kerning in my font only the same spacings between which is just over 3mm apart. I have copyrighted this font and hope to put it out there when I finish getting the metal stamps for it finished. Example below shows the laser cut masking tape on a trial. This pic below shows the impression possible with a 3D printed block I did with this font This next one shows that the guide I printed can use the Ivan letter set as well, in this case a C and can give a cleaner looking impression. If a font for the Ivan set were available I think it would be too sharp to get a good line up over the masking tape and is also why I decided to make the width/thickness I did when I designed the font. Thank you again for the help you have offered and again to Rockoboy and Bigjake. Quote Wild Harry - Australian made leather goodsYouTube Channel Instagram
Rockoboy Posted December 10, 2018 Report Posted December 10, 2018 On 4/12/2018 at 4:11 PM, RockyAussie said: Thank you again for the help you have offered and again to Rockoboy and Bigjake. No problem from my side @RockyAussie. All that you do for folks on this site, it was a small thing that I could (try to do) for you. Quote Kindest regards Brian "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you are right" Henry Ford Machines: Singer 201p, Kennedy, Singer 31K20, Singer 66K16 ("boat anchor" condition), Protex TY8B Cylinder Arm (Consew 227r copy), Unbranded Walking Foot (Sailrite LSV-1 copy)
Members chrisash Posted December 10, 2018 Members Report Posted December 10, 2018 Bloody hell, is there nothing you can do that is not perfect, your embarrassing my feeble efforts in every field Quote Mi omputer is ot ood at speeling , it's not me
Members noobleather Posted December 10, 2018 Members Report Posted December 10, 2018 Great font ,like the painted letters.Just a regular acrylic paint or something more exotic? So you printed the guide ? They for sale? Quote
Contributing Member JLSleather Posted December 10, 2018 Contributing Member Report Posted December 10, 2018 On 12/4/2018 at 2:11 AM, RockyAussie said: I have copyrighted this font and hope to put it out there when I finish getting the metal stamps OH, so its a commercial venture thing. Now I'm with ya. Up until that, I was wondering why not simply laser the letters on the leather and paint em Quote "Observation is 9/10 of the law." IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.
Moderator immiketoo Posted December 10, 2018 Moderator Report Posted December 10, 2018 6 hours ago, JLSleather said: OH, so its a commercial venture thing. Now I'm with ya. Up until that, I was wondering why not simply laser the letters on the leather and paint em Cause it looks bad? Quote Learnleather.com
Contributing Member JLSleather Posted December 10, 2018 Contributing Member Report Posted December 10, 2018 11 minutes ago, immiketoo said: Cause it looks bad? Maybe. Guess we'll have to wait on teh reply from the guy doing it Quote "Observation is 9/10 of the law." IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.
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