![]() (they have some "old fashioned" appearance) Outline fonts - they are not a special category, but some of them are made with some care to not cross lines and could be used as example to define some "cut out" on shapes and usually are also good to be transformed in shapestrings, like some "military looking fonts" that resemble those used as stencils to mark military and shipping boxes.Single stroke fonts - These fonts, are usually developed explicitely to be engraved (as example CamBam sticky fonts) discusse somewhere in this forum, they have some care (but sadly not 100%) to avoid to "pass" over other glyphs and usually are composed by a single line, to be followed by the engrave tool. ![]() ![]() Generic fonts - what is good to be visualized and printed on paper, usually they don't care to much about glyphs compositions so crossing and double strokes will appear (see further).We could try to distinguish between three categories of fonts: I will try to generalize on some extent things, but for sure I will not be exhaustive and probably not very correct, but it is a start, feel free to contribute and signal wrong assumptions or conclusion. My intention is to collect some hints from user about fonts, and their use in FreeCAD. To avoid as much possible to be OT, I've opened this thread.
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