For many years I've taught students to engrave stippled script monograms in my engraving classes. I'd draw a letter and then walk them through the steps to produce a beautiful monogram with brightcut edge. When it was their turn I'd use a computer font to produce the letters for them to transfer and engrave as it's too time consuming to hand draw letters for a dozen students. While computer fonts can be ok for practice, they are rarely suitable for a beautiful monogram worthy of sale.
I had three goals when designing the AlfanoArt Monogram System:
1.) Produce an original monogram design system worthy of engraving on the finest articles.
2.) One that's relative easy to engrave and suitable for beginners, but produces professional results an expert will be proud of.
3.) A system that will pay for itself the first use.
The lettering I've developed in this system is original and is not a font. Each letter was designed on paper and then painstakingly drawn in the computer to produce a scalable vector illustration. What that means is razor sharp transfers with letters can be enlarged or reduced without quality degradation or becoming pixelated or jaggy. Software such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Inkscape, Photoshop, etc is required.
As you may know, not all fixed letter designs combine well together as a monogram. I have designed an extended letter set which helps to overcome this problem and produce a pleasing, balanced monogram. The user can choose from the Letter Variations to arrange letter combinations to suit.
I've also included all letters and variations in reverse form. Personally, I find it easier to arrange my letters first and reverse them before printing. But if you're computer challenged you'll have reversed letters ready to scale and transfer.
Hand engraved monogram with brightcut edges.
Alphabet and Letter Variation set.
Original sketches.
Coming soon
I had three goals when designing the AlfanoArt Monogram System:
1.) Produce an original monogram design system worthy of engraving on the finest articles.
2.) One that's relative easy to engrave and suitable for beginners, but produces professional results an expert will be proud of.
3.) A system that will pay for itself the first use.
The lettering I've developed in this system is original and is not a font. Each letter was designed on paper and then painstakingly drawn in the computer to produce a scalable vector illustration. What that means is razor sharp transfers with letters can be enlarged or reduced without quality degradation or becoming pixelated or jaggy. Software such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Inkscape, Photoshop, etc is required.
As you may know, not all fixed letter designs combine well together as a monogram. I have designed an extended letter set which helps to overcome this problem and produce a pleasing, balanced monogram. The user can choose from the Letter Variations to arrange letter combinations to suit.
I've also included all letters and variations in reverse form. Personally, I find it easier to arrange my letters first and reverse them before printing. But if you're computer challenged you'll have reversed letters ready to scale and transfer.
Hand engraved monogram with brightcut edges.
Alphabet and Letter Variation set.
Original sketches.
Coming soon
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