You could laser etch this (and some people do) but you’re now outlining the letters instead of just etching them with a single stroke. Here’s the normal font with the fill set to none and the stroke (outline) set to a thin line. In this case, the outline of the font is filled with black and you see what you normally see when viewing a font on a computer screen. Fonts consist of an outline which is then filled with a color. If you’re doing 3,000 pieces, the time can make a huge difference! Raster etching takes a long time, and vector etching (basically doing a low-power vector “cut”) is fast. You can raster etch the type, or “vector etch” the type. When laser etching, any font could be used. You’d think that would be an easy thing… Well, keep reading. I needed a single stroke font for some laser cutting.
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