Type faces are what can turm an uninspiring text into an 'attractive' uninspiring text...
and that boring brown-card folder at the back of your shelf into a pleasing project holder
proudly proclaiming your textiles passion with a sticker carrying the title in a 'textiler' font.
With this in mind I have spent some time looking at fonts, downloading those I thought might
suit the theme of 'textile' and 'yarn'. I have made font samples into images to
show you what they look like. You just go to the websites and download the font. You will need a
program to unpack the fonts. Winzip is the best-known program to buy, if you want freeware there are
many very good and versatile programs like it on download websites. I just suggest the easiest one I
have found, no frills, JustZIPit will open zipped files
and also compress them.
For the fonts, please follow the programmer's requests regarding the use of their fonts : shareware,
freeware, testware, sneak-a-peek ware, charityware, giftware, postcardware etc.
looks like a single weft stretching across 1, 2 or 3 warps. Or maybe it reminds
you of the long-stitch in embroidery? It is very simple and very modern. Download the font from
here
another long-stitch or 'floating weft' font, larger-looking bold. Using it you will find that all the
spaces between the black 'weft' are equal, as are all the thicker 'weft' lines. It might be the PC
changeing what the sample looks like (irregular widths). Get it from Abstract Fonts
here, the same site where byteploice,
zebrures and candy come from.
If you want to write in Twill, you can find this font
here.
Seeing this font I found the name a little surprising, but you need to know it to find the font on the website.
Unfortunately I have lost the original URL but can give you another site. On this new site it is called
Venetia Monitor, you find it in the section about computer type styles (where you also find the
8-bit matrix and cross-stitch fonts).
angerfont . Another "floating weft" font, it has better spacing between letters.
Another "floating weft" font. The letters are closer together and the style appears more 'floating'.
Get the font here .
Back to a "twill" font... (I know... twills are floating weft weaves ...).
Embroiderers might see this as the half cross stitch or gobelin stitch. It is offered
here .
might be just right on your project folder about quilting. See the font at quilt .
If you are looking for a large typeface that imitates "plastic canvas" or "Aida" ,
you can find it here .
Get this rather natural-looking cross-stitch font, called 'embroidery' on this site, in the computer font
section, from here .
might suit your folders containing your knitting, crochet, knotting, naalbinding projects?
But weavers, spinners, embroiderers will also recognise this surface. To get it click
here .
I am sure this could have some connection with "textiles and yarn", maybe to chart
letters? Get the font here .
use a large fontsize and look carefully: this appears darned, or could it be Teneriffe lace??
Get it here .
no need to tell you that this looks like tacking stitches or running stitch I suppose.
"Stitch your text" with the font from here .
is a font with a
'woven surface', visible on larger-sized text. Get it here .
reminds me of the
taylor's 'cabbage', artfully arranged to spell out messages. You can get it
here from the pull-out menu under
'decorated fonts'. Or get the same font in solid black .
if you fold bands
or ribbons and arrange them into letters you might have a lot of work ahead. Maybe
getting the font here will be easier.
for that twill
look, or a well-twisted thread coming off the spinning wheel? Save laying it out to make
your text, just get the font here .
embroiderers will
know the chain stitch, so here is a font for you!
a cross stitch?
Anyway, I think it could have its use for some textile workers. Download it fromhere .
a chunky font
which, in my opinion, looks like a collage or irregular quilting, or blocks to embroider or
weave? Go here if you like it.
this one looks like
text written on ribbon, a little like those name tapes we all 'liked'. Gohere for it.
I'm sure this
font has a link with 'textiles' - - I just can't think of it ... but if you like it then
get it here .
this reminds me of
macrame, or of a hank of yarn. You can get it here .
this could be another
embroidery stitch, makrame loops, transparent sequins, or other textile-based items. You can
download it here .
looks just
like something wrapped up in strips of fabric I think. Upper and lower cases are the same size
but one has coloures stips the other coloured gaps. See here where I found it.
string of pearls
is a lovely name for this font. It might interest bead weavers, get it from here .
for another
collage or unstructured quilt look get this font here .
If you want ribbons to write with, try this font from here