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Fonts Compatible with Laser Cutting

TeX - LaTeX Asked by MrBrightside on March 21, 2021

Pretty straightforward question: My friends and I have access to a laser cutter and we are making a word clock. Thus I was wondering if anyone knew of a LaTeX font compatible with laser cutting such as this

a busy cat

Or if there is any clever way to create them in TikZ using a drawing outline I would be fine with that too.

Thanks in advance for any help!

2 Answers

if you're willing to trade time and energy for more control, you can certainly design your own font, or set of letter-like vector graphics. An easier option would be to use one of the many stencil-like fonts available with friendly licenses. Here's something I did with a rather random font obtained from dafont.com. If you look harder than I did, or maybe spend a few bucks on licensing a more professional font, you'll probably be able to obtain results that are even closer to what you want.

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documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{fontspec}
setmainfont{Overspray}
begin{document}
ESKISTLFÜNF
HATEINERUND
GEMACHTZUWE
RDENDERVONB
UCHWOLLENUN
DDIESEALSON
AMENSCHLICH
TESONDERNEN
end{document}

Correct answer by Nils L on March 21, 2021

You almost certainly want to use a modern stencil font in LuaLaTeX with the fontspec package.

If for some reason you were forced to use PDFTeX for this, the LaTeX Font Catalogue has a list of the 8-bit fonts already available for legacy TeX. However, you don’t have a publisher who’s still forcing you to use legacy tools in 2020.

Answered by Davislor on March 21, 2021

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