OT: Braille Dot Lettering

This should give you a good start...and hopefully be enough to make it "readable" for her. Good Luck! Mommyrazz

Believe it or not I have a friend at work who is blind. She teaches the music to the kids at work and she has been nothing but kind to me.

I want to give her a christmas card but being blind is hard for me to figure out what to make for her card wise.

I've made a textured card but I want to put Merry Christmas inside it for her. She said that she can only read braille not raised letters.

Can anyone find me a link. i'm having issues with my search. Thanks.

kate

If that one doesn't lead you to what you need, let me know. I have a Braille alpha printout that I can scan and email to you.

Since you're not an airline pilot or some similary job that absolutely requires vision, why woudn't we believe it?

That's so sweet of you! I'm sure she'll appreciate itl.

If you have a program that will let you install a new font & print from that, here are some (PC & Mac):

If not, you can go to this site & click on "Braille alphabet" in the lower left corner & print out an alphabet card.

Since I doubt you have a Braille slate & stylus, here are a few pointers. To make the raised dots read correctly on the front side of the page, you need to work from the back. Braille letters are made up of dots in a pattern of 6 dots to a "cell":

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Various combinations of the dots make the different letters.

To get the dots to read correctly, you push them thru the paper from the back, right to left. So, if you can write out your message, flip it & print it on the back, then you can use a pen point with the paper on a soft surface to gently push the dots so they're raised on the other side. Make sense?

Good luck!

Alicia

Alicia,

Thank you so much. I've laid it out on vellum with a pencil and was going to use my embossing stylus and my alphabet letters with punctuation to get the dots correct.

Hopefully it will work out ok. If not I've got the wording written out so her seeing husband can read the sentiment to her.

Kate

If I hate it I'll get one of those "musical" cards for her that hallmark puts out.

Cool! Let us know how it turns out.

Alicia

Alicia,

the font was perfect and was so helpful. I was getting frustrated yet the font saved me.

Kate