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making military plaques

whimsicalpig

New Member
Hi, at the advanced age of 59, I find myself full speed into making sublimateable plaques for members of the US Army at my shop on an Army base. these are farewell gifts to members of military units who are moving on to different bases or units and are given as a thank you for your service.

I find that these guys are rather conservative in their preferences and I am getting tires of using cooperplate bold and rockwell bold.

does anyone have some ideas for good, substantial conservative fonts that will bevel well with coreldraw?

we use a lot of images in these designs, including all the usual military iconography plus imported pictures from Iraq and Afghanistan etc.

This business has nothing to do with personal positions on war in general, but rather we are offering a service that one individual or group of individuals use to thank other individuals.
 

jscarl

New Member
Welcome from mid Michigan. What software are you using.? There should be a few on there.
 

Fred Weiss

Merchant Member
Welcome to Signs 101.

I'm very partial to a font family of 3 weights named ITC Blair as a substitute for any of the overused Copperplate fonts. Here's a link to it. It's not for everything but when it works, it works very well.
 

killergraphics

New Member
I also do a few of the award plaques.
From my USArmyOnly.com site
It is hard to talk them guys into anything that leans to fancy.
I think what Fred said is the best idea.
Are you using the white metal?
 
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