Are there any single line fonts on Adobe Fonts?

[NiBeDB]

Hey there,

I'm searching for single line fonts on Adobe Fonts and can't find any. Am I doing something wrong or is there none? I need a font to prepare an engraving.

Thanks in advance!

Nico

[Test Screen Name · Accepted solution]

All the fonts are OpenType and I don't think single line fonts actually exist in OpenType form. It's always a filled shape. May be wrong though.

[NiBeDB]

Thank you very much, Test Screen Name.

[John24960809z5xh]

Engraving? Do you want to set an outline of the text (no fill, just outline? This example is from Adobe Blue Book at 97:

/Helvetica-Bold findfont
30 scalefont setfont

/oshow %stack: (string)
{ true charpath stroke }

def

(String to print) oshow

showpage

Combined with a .N setgray in a gsave/grestore pair, it is hugely useful for engraving/signage, etc.

[NiBeDB]

Hi John, thank's for your replay. Yes, engraving with a Shaper Origin. Simply said, I am looking for a way to generate the "center lines of a font". So that each letter consists of individual lines, not an outline, not an area.

Sounds very interessting to me. But I don't understand where to put the code. And what is the Adobe Blue Book? 

[Marieke Feenstra]

Hi, I have the same question but for different usage. I need to be able to get 1 single line from a font, so not an outline and I need to do it in photshop. I tried to do stroke in the middle, but that doesn't work. I searched for a full day and could not find the answer. Did you have nayluck, other than downloading single line fonts?

[NiBeDB]

Hi Marieke, no, I didn't found a good and efficient solution using just Illustrator. Meanwhile I bought six fonts from www.singlelinefonts.com. I use it with FontLab Pad (free) to convert text to SVGs and then import the SVGs into Illustrator. This is the fastest and easiest way I have found.

[Marieke Feenstra]

Hi, ok, thank you. I really want to pick a font first and then create a single line path. I am surprised this information is not available, it shouldn't be too hard to automate this. You would just need a stroke through the middle of the font. I can't believe with the option to Stroke a path in Photoshop, this is not an options in Photoshop. Why would we be forced to draw something that's already there. I attached an example of what I am making, but this is still an outline instead of a single path

[raphaels31398702]

Relief Single Line Regular is the only one I have found so far. https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/relief-singleline

[Pono226070244b30]

I was searching for a similar font for the exact same reason not but 6 months ago, and found some paid fonts available elsewhere on the web. But, recently, I just found a couple fonts in the Adobe Font Library that, when expanded, render as single open lines (no closed shapes at all), which can be followed by the CNC device of your choice:

Relief Singleline

Lingua Light

The first is open source, and the second is avaiable for free use through the Adobe Fonts Library.

Enjoy!

[AMetcalf21]

I recently searched for the same thing, and I stumbled on this post after finding a solution, so I thought I would post it here for those looking. I stumbled upon one on Adobe Fonts called Relief SingleLine. It has a monoline option and an outline option, and it displays correctly in Illustrator. I don't know if there are any others out there, but I hope more people make these kinds of things.

[Bobby Henderson]

Creative choices in typefaces will be pretty limited if someone is confined to using a limited number of faux single line fonts. It's not very difficult to edit letters from various typefaces to turn them into single line paths for various purposes (making tube patterns for neon signs, engraving, etc).

The best way to do this is starting out with the thinnest weight of a desired typeface. There is a growing number of type families that have ultra thin "hairline" weights. Variable fonts with both width and weight axes can provide a lot more creative flexibility.

Using path editing tools (such as the Scissors tool) break open the anchor points of a closed letter path to get rid of the line segments that aren't needed. I like to keep the line segments that match up with the cap height line and baseline. Use the Join command, alignment commands and blend operations to fill gaps. In some cases, like a letter "S", some manual drawing and path editing will be required. The process isn't time consuming if all one is doing is building a couple or so words.