Fonts specifically for plasma cutting

There are some that just won’t work well though. Papyrus comes to mind :slightly_smiling_face: Any font with extremely fine detail flourishes or stroke portions can lose those details when the plasma’s kerf is accounted for.

Blocky fonts, stenciled ones for folks who don’t want to manually add bridges are very safe.

Decorative fonts need to be scaled up to be effective and care in just how many swoopy flourishes are part of the letters needs to be watched. One handy trick is to convert the text to paths and then change the stroke width to the kerf size (about 0.055") and you’ll see what the cut-out will look like. Watch out for sharp pokey points - on steel they can become razor sharp.

Oh, Google fonts provide hundreds of free fonts or check out dafont.com is really useful too including some nice search & display capabilities. Using wordmark.it will show you how your text will look in all of the fonts installed on your machine in a really effective browser page layout.

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