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Gold leaf font, should be easy
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SellersSign&Design
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That's a proprietary Pierce font, it's not available for purchase.
shoresigns
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It's clearly based on Copperplate Gothic. Copperplate Condensed Bold, is quite similar, if that helps.
SellersSign&Design
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Copperplate condensed is close, but it still takes a lot of tweaking. You have to make all the serifs pointed instead of squared off, and many of the letters have some diffences. Pierce has a lot of awesome fonts, it's a shame they aren't available to purchase but I understand why they keep them locked up.
Copperplate condensed is close, but it still takes a lot of tweaking. You have to make all the serifs pointed instead of squared off, and many of the letters have some diffences. Pierce has a lot of awesome fonts, it's a shame they aren't available to purchase but I understand why they keep them locked up.
SellersSign&Design
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This is my version of that font. I've been working on it off and on for a while, it is nowhere near finished and still needs to be cleaned up quite a bit, but you get the idea. I'm having to build a lot of fonts from scratch since I deal with so many fire trucks.
Sign Works
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SS&D, got a question for you. I'm assuming that this is computer generated artwork intended for digital printing, If I'm correct then how are you getting the engine turn spun effect to follow within each letter as if it were hand done unlike using a fill or cutting a patterned engine turn gold leaf material? BTW, nice job on the font.
mark-s
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TammieH
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This font is close, close enough? That depends on your customer I suppose
https://creativebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/decanter-free.jpg
https://creativebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/decanter-free.jpg
Sign Works
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I don't think you understand the question although I think SS&D will.
I think he must be creating his own pattern fill for each letter in photoshop.
SellersSign&Design
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The example I posted above is just a fill that I made, so the spins don't line up perfectly in each letter. But, most of the "printed" gold leaf I do is made to look just like hand laid gold with each spin placed individually on the letters. It's a process I've spent a few years dialing in, but now I've got it down to where it's all done in Flexi and actually looks pretty convincing. I had to have a cheaper option to offer customers that can't afford the hand laid gold, but I didn't want to sacrifice the look of real gold. The printed reflective gold leaf has turned out to be a pretty good alternative.
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ams
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Pixels Are Bad Mmmkay?
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What software do you create your fonts with? I'm currently using High-Logic Font Creator.
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SellersSign&Design
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I'm not in front of my computer, but I'm almost positive I'm using High-Logic also. It does fine for what I'm doing, I don't even know how to use half of the features haha.
Pixels Are Bad Mmmkay?
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Yeah, I really like it. It's easy to learn and the professional version is full of features.