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That is an amazing amount of improvements. Well done! A shocking number of mistakes, more like! However, the amazing improvements in FontCreator do make it easier to spot them. "How long does it take to make a font?" Perhaps an hour. "How long does it take to make a perfect font?&quo...

Has anyone located photos of the individuals to compare with the glyph?

Bhikkhu Pesala's solution is what I used when trying to decide on which stencil font to use.

By typing in the exact message I would make, it was easy to discard fonts with no numbers, only caps, difficult to hand cut, etc.

cas3 wrote:Oh wow! You are wonderful! Thank you so very much!

Yes he is! He has the correct answers before the rest of us get started.

I go with Main Type every time. It does SO MUCH MORE!

I just changed the title and added a brief update at the top of this article.

I just did a Dick Pape search on Google. OUR Dick Pape is at the top of the list!

I just tried : Aesop's Life Illustrated: http://www.datafilehost.com/download-ec39f221.html Life Font: http://www.datafilehost.com/download-1bdd723e.html and received this message: Welcome to the NEW DATAFILEHOST.COM! We're sorry for the inconvenience but the page that you are looking for has been r...

I now have 148,019 fonts in my library. I lost my computer last year and just recently got around to re-loading Main Type on my new one. I wanted to hand cut a stencil for my mail box. The " Tag Search " Works GREAT! Using MainType I was able to quickly isolate 55 stencil fonts from my 14...

The first 4 times I tried the link I got error messages. Idiotically I tried a fifth time - and it worked! Some of the article is below. http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/CE48/production/_88980825_edwardjohnston,designforanalphabet,1916-v-ae471936.victoriaandalbertmuseum,london-ed..jpg ht...

I lost my computer last year and just recently got around to re-loading Main Type on my new one. I wanted to hand cut a stencil for my mail box. The " Tag Search " Works GREAT! Using MainType I was able to quickly isolate 55 stencil fonts from my 142,000 (otherwise impossible to look at), ...

So much simpler and direct than my meanderings of long ago. Thanks Erwin!

Hi Dave -- Just takes a lot longer nowadays ... Inhale, exhale, inhale, cough, cough. See it's still working, a little. Dick “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half;...

Dick Pape wrote:Hello Jonathan.

Thanks for the note. I am glad you were able to use the fonts. Any profits should go to Font Creator, the platform which makes the whole thing possible!

Dick Pape

Ditto!
Amazing we are both still kicking!

Dave

Another place to share interests and ideas:

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