It is actually a bit like playing with a puzzle and many people really enjoy putting the pieces together to make designs. Combining the styles allows you to have complete creative control.īy assembling the nearly 200 pieces it is quite easy to produce very complex designs. So the Filled Style fits exactly into the Outline Style, and the Inverse Style fits precisely around the Outline Style so as to make up the background behind the knotwork. The different styles are all very carefully created to fit accurately with each other. I wanted every piece to meet exactly with the next, with no possibility for misalignment. If one character from the font is used at one inch tall, every control point will be placed to an accuracy of better than 0.0001 inch. With that in mind, I designed each character of the font with extremes of accuracy. I was also interested in CNC work and thought that this font would work well for applications such as laser etching, vinyl signs, and machining. Word processors, embroidery programs, engraving programs, jewelry design programs, CAD/CAM programs.almost every program can use fonts. That way anyone with ANY program that uses fonts could easily create Celtic knotwork designs. I thought about CDR and EPS formats, but then I thought of creating this toolset as a True Type Font. I found them so useful and fun to work with that I began thinking about ways to market my Celtic design kit. I developed a small library of reusable bits and chunks of Celtic designs. I noticed that I was able to reuse a lot of parts in repetitive sections. But even with these great tools, it was still tedious to create these designs. Draw proved to be a natural for this type of artwork with tools like contour and the trim function. Then as I realized how nice it would be to have 'undos' I switched over to using Corel Draw. I read all of the books I could find about Celtic knots and at first I drew them by hand with pencil and paper. I began using Celtic knotwork designs in my own work as part of my knifemaking and jewelry making hobbies. The interlaced lines make them perfect for wedding invitations, borders, dividers and rules, web graphics, and logos. While many enjoy them simply for their beauty and fascinating twists, they can also be used to add an air of myth, magic and mystery to any project. Intricate Celtic knots are featured everywhere from jewelry to tattoos. These ancient traditional interwoven designs are experiencing a revival as Celtic culture gains exposure in the modern world. While it is obvious that this is an ornamental style font, it is more than that: it is a Celtic Knotwork design tool! Irish, Scottish, Welsh, even Norse and Viking cultures have used knotwork designs for millenia.

Celtic looking font in microsoft word