Ring Engraving Fonts?

[amarock Amat]

I have been looking among some varous things, and am curoius on what folks belive, makes good font's for engraving or lettering on silver and gold rings. I have expermented with the varoius gimp default settings but have come away rather no happy on the overall look.

[Jacki Silverfall]

Here is a site that has free fonts. Maye you can find a nice one here.

http://www.dafont.com/

Also, TTfont has one called invitation or something like that, its a good one for engraving.

ETA Call a engraver in your town and ask which is popular for rings then try to find the font online.

[Void Singer]

if you want it readable in SL, then medium weight sans serif block fonts are probably your best bet. with a little drop shadow for gold, or maybe a little blur for antiqued silver.

[amarock Amat]

Ill have to experment more with it not to umm ...proud with it ......anymore tips?

 

 

[Ishtara Rothschild]

I recommend the emboss filter to simulate an engraved font. Duplicate the layer with the embossed text and experiment with different layer settings to create a realistic look. In this example, I've set the text layer to 30% transparency, then duplicated it and changed the second layer to "color dodge" at 60% transparency:

 

I think this would make a nice inscription for a wedding ring The font is Zapf Chancery btw. It's a great compromise between a calligraphy font and an easily readable serif type. 

PS: Feel free to use the silver texture if you like it:

[amarock Amat]

aww's ty ... one of my major issues with using fonts at this moment, is that I use sculpite rings, and the textures I am using, tend to repeate so its kinda meh lol.

[Ishtara Rothschild]

You can always modify the repeats per face in the texture tab of the edit window

[amarock Amat]

yeah still messing with that, in overlapping designs that work's but for actual ring wording texture, that gets a lil harder as it would overstretch the words, so still messing with that. I tend to use sculpts not prims so my textures are specific. 

 

Thank you so much for your help

[WADE1 Jya]

looks like you're off to a good start amarock! you could always make yourself a little mesh ring (for future use after mesh has seen wide adoption), then it'll be much easier to wrap your textures with pixel-perfect fit everytime & no seams, warping or worry with repeats.