font like Papyrus...ugh

[Marlene]

I am being forced into making a sign with the font Papyrus to match a customer's logo. the big problem is it will be for router cut plastic letters. if there a font that looks like that awful looking Papyrus font but without all the nasty jaggy edges? I sure hope so or I have to go in and clean up this mess so it will work.

thanks

 

[J Hill Designs]

Outline it in composer with contour and pre-contour on and rounded, then re-inline the same amount

 

[J Hill Designs]

doesnt work as well as i thought =/

 

[Marlene]

thanks, that will help speed up the process of getting rid of those jags. it may not work all that well but it's a start.

 

[J Hill Designs]

on a side note, you JUST made me install papyrus on my system =(

 

[oldgoatroper]

Thread title says "font LIKE Papyrus"... would Present Script be suitable for what you are doing?

 

[signsolutions]

I've had good luck by typing the text into Photoshop, black on white bkg, saving as a medium size jpg. I bring that into Flexi and use the Vectorize-> Bezier.

It will keep the organic look but remove the smaller detail. I've found this to work better than trying to reduce curve points.

The size of the source jpg counts, so you may have to experiment.

- Keith

 

[natedawg9640]

in composer, you can use the "thin" options to take out some points and round some corners.

 

[ucmj22]

the larger you do the initial offset, the more of the jaggies you will remove, see attached.

 

[Marlene]

on a side note, you JUST made me install papyrus on my system =(

for that I am sooo sorry!

I did the outline/inline and then did the smooth and it worked pretty good as it keeps the horrid shape of the letters without all the jagged mess that is Papyus...I so hate this font! it is the font you see every want-to-be designer thru in these days. but on the flip side, it could be worse and be Brush Script or Comic Sans:Big Laugh

 

[J Hill Designs]

OH, cmon...comic sans route's beautifully

 

[Bobby H]

I had to create a channel letter sign for a company that had Papyrus in its logo. Yeah, everyone hates Papyrus for how it is so badly used. At least these folks used the original Letraset version rather than the AWFUL looking cut Microsoft bundles into MS Office.

Anyway, I used Illustrator to help create the smoothed outline/path offset effect. In the offset path dialog box look at the "Joins" listing. It defaults to "Miter". Choose the "Rounded" option. This will prevent all those jagged corners in the lettering from having huge spines. You'll have some clean up work to do afterward but it's not too bad. It beats having to manually digitize the outline from scratch.

 

[GAC05]

Maybe one of these will do:
http://new.myfonts.com/morelike/34841/

wayne k
guam usa

 

[Atomic DNA]

Can you just use the smooth tool in Illustrator or is it a bunch of words?

 

[leeviathan]

This is probably too late for the original poster, but for anyone in the future here's a smooth version of Papyrus: http://leeviathan.com/portfolio-item/smooth-papyrus/