Spiral Fonts

Spiral Font Shapes for Microsoft Word, Indesign, PaintShop Pro, Carrara, Xara, Publisher and others

Installation of Spiral true type font set on PC

Install the spiral font set (font pack 164) by right clicking the TTF font set and you will either see an application 'font viewer' or the 'install' command will be displayed. You can also just drag the spiral font sets to the control panel on the PC.

Spiral font sets and wordPad

Once installed - go to WordPad (via the start menu)

1) Go to the font dropdown menu

2) select the spiral font from the dropdown

3) Set the font size via the font size box

4) Type A B C etc to display the spiral shape (all the font sets come with a document showing the relationship between the designs and the keyboard)

5) Set the text color for the spiral shape

 

spiral wordpad

example of a spiral design (from the pack 164) in Microsoft WordPad

 

Spiral font shapes in Adobe Fireworks

1) "File menu" and "new command"

2) Select the "text tool"

3) Go to the text menu and font command / list

4) Set the font to the spiral font set

5) text and select size to set the size of the spiral design (something like 400)

6) Type A B C etc (each spiral set comes with a document showing the relationship between the characters and the keyboard)

7) Set the color of the design via the swatches palette in Fireworks or use the fill setting in the Firework's toolbox or via the properties dialog

8) Right click menu convert to paths

9) Subselection tool to modify individual parts of the spiral design such as drag out individual points to create an abstract spiral design

 

spiral fireworks font

example above of a spiral design from pack 164 open in Adobe Fireworks

 

Combine spiral paths and punch command

Create additional paths, say such as circle designs and create those over the existing spiral shape - select all the shapes and then use the right click menu and select the combine path option and punch command to punch holes into the spiral font shape.

Blurring spiral fonts

Filter / effects can also be applied to the spiral shape to create blurred spirals, bevel spiral shapes and much more

 

Free spiral font sampler/demo

 

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Date modified: April 14th, 2012

 

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