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Hey everyone, I want to create a stencil for the common elements I use when journaling. Reference picture attached. Now that I figured out how to work with text in FreeCAD, I hit the unexpected but in hindsight obvious roadblock of finding a font that can be printed "negatively"? I am not sure how to properly word it, but the gist is that the text can't have parts disconnected from the rest of the stencil. Check the uppercase B and D letters in the picture, i.e. Dafont.com has the Stencil category, but everything in there is pretty military looking. So my question is: Does anyone know of a freely available font for such a use case?

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[-] einkorn@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Well, there are plenty of fonts available with these sorts of bars attached that can be printed this way. For example, I saved this font for another project. However, looking at it in the 3D render, the font seems too fragmented at this scale. Another option might be this one. But they both don't fit the aesthetic I would like to have.

Yes, creating my own font is also viable, but I would prefer to not dig into another branch of creative work, as I tend to start too many projects at once, anyway.

this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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