"Make My Own Decals - OGRE / GEV" Topic

Make My Own Decals – OGRE / GEV

Data 70 was mentioned to me at some point in the past as a good font for "ogre-inspired stuff" The style is the same old digital style from the film Rollerball

I was thinking of getting a font like this to make unit numbers on my plastic ogre minis. I heard one can buy decal / transfer paper, and print out your own decals / transfers [is there a difference?].

My stupid questions:

1) Is this still the best way to do this?

2) anyone have recommendations of where to get this font or a similar font? I assume one buys it and downloads it?

3) any recommendations for decal paper?

Thanks!

I do a lot of decals, but it's a little tricky – I would advise some research

Bare metal or testors (same stuff I think). Not cheap Amazon stuff

There are lots of sites that sell or have free fonts. Easy to download, follow OS instructions to install on computer – any editing program should then pick up the font

John

@jwebster

Thanks for reply.

"Bate Metal" and "Testors" are the paper?

The thing that makes me nervous about downloading free fonts would be that it is a scam spreading a virus. I'm hoping to get some specific recommendations from reliable sources.

Bare metal, sorry

Web designers are really into fonts and there are lots of people designing their own fonts so there are several respectable market places for fonts. Google has a lot of free fonts. I download fonts for web design all the time

The danger from downloads is for programs (executables). Font files have a specific file extension

John