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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