Help! Looking for specific italic alphabet

Have you thought about using a font and printing out what you need? Sometimes it's just easier to do it yourself. :-)

Hi, Kristy. If you want to download a font to print out for your layout, I was looking through the fonts at

Kristy, I played around with my fonts in Microsoft Word, and I came up with something that looks like that number on the plane..Try the font Arial Narrow, and click BOLD ITALIC.See what you think? you could type it out using Word Art, and then cut them out? Linda C

Probably Arial already on your computer italicized would do the trick for you. If that doesn't work try posting our query in alt.binaries.fonts they are very helpful there as well.

Lynne

Thanks everyone! I had done some things with the computer, but hadn't thought of making individual letters with it. I tried a few of the fonts I have, and found some things that look good. Any tips on cutting them out well?

This is great - I'm already picking up some good ideas just reading through old posts here. Thanks again!! Kristy

That should have read Word program....sheesh- typos! Arleen

For larger letters I've also used an exacto knife on a cutting board and that worked out great.

Make sure you use a VERY sharp knife to cut them out with, and be careful not to hurt yourself... I wanted a large white title for my 'bouquet' page so I printed it out on a sheet of paper and taped the whole sheet down onto a page of white cardstock so it couldn't slip around. Then I put the sheet onto my cutting mat, put a brand new blade into my knife, and started cutting along the edges one letter at a time. I ran the finished letters through my xyron machine to glue them - that way there was no mess and no loose bits sticking up.

And make sure you cut out the centers of the letters first especially if they are narrow. Ask me how I know. I don't know how many letters I ruined before I figured that one out! :-)

Thanks for all the advice, everyone! I ended up using Ariel italic in WordArt and printing on the cardstock. For some reason I couldn't figure out how to make the letters print backwards. so that made things a little trickier. I tried using a knife, and that wasn't working well for me. :) So I went to the scissors, and had pretty good results. I tried doing the same with some smaller, tougher letters for a different page (letters that had centers, unlike most of the first batch) and decided I definitely needed better scissors. So, today I got some of the cutter bee scissors that Arleen mentioned and I'll try again when I get a chance. I'm actually pretty happy with how this whole effort is working out...I'm sure I'll be back with more random questions!

Thanks, Kristy

I was trying to remember how I got my word backwards in Word wordart and goofing around I figured it out. If you click on the word a box with small black squares on it show up. I grabbed the left most small black square and pulled it past the last letter of the existing word and kept pulling until it was about the size I wanted. Then let go. Viola it was backwards.

Lynne

Cool! I will have to try that! Thanks for figuring that out!

Linda C