I am trying to use the Serif ImpactPlus 5 program to design a three-dimensional model of a dinner plate with the following text going around the plate.
Food with no gluten-containing ingredients
It might be that the text is used twice.
The idea is that if such dinner plates were manufactured it could help to avoid mix-ups in restaurants and hotels when serving food to people who need or choose a meal with no gluten-containing ingredients.
ImpactPlus has the very useful facility that a character from a font can be used to make a three-dimensional object, so, in order to be able to make a model of a plate suitable to be textured with the lettering, I made a special font using FontCreator.
The font provides a disc encoded as a figure 0, and seven annuli, encoded as figures 1 through to 7.
The font was produced for a specific purpose, yet it might perhaps also have other uses.
Here is the font.
DISCANNU.TTF (8 KB)
Here is my attempt at using the font to produce a concept illustration of the idea. The design of the plate uses three-dimensional objects made from the disc and from one of the annuli to make the plate.
The lettering on the plate was produced by texturing the object with a png file made using the Serif DrawPlus X4 program: the png was trimmed using the Microsoft Paint program while I was experimenting.
Making the special font using FontCreator allowed me to make the model of the plate within the ImpactPlus 5 program.
William Overington
28 June 2011
