Where To Find Monograms?

Decorating By bobwonderbuns Updated 23 Mar 2007 , 12:45am by SILVERCAT

bobwonderbuns Posted 28 Feb 2007 , 1:36am

Hey y'all -- I have a cake coming up this weekend and I am putting a monogram on it. I got the monogram by going to my Microsoft Word and picking out fonts I liked, blowing them way up and colorflowing them.

My question is: That worked well for me this time, but there are times I want a really pretty monogram but I cannot seem to locate a font I like. I've seen monograms on searches but you have to pay big $$$ for them -- is there an easier way???

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calvarykari Posted 28 Feb 2007 , 2:40am

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Try Dafont.com, many of the fonts there are free. Be careful about downloading too many though. I have a mac and verify each font to make sure that there are no issues but with a pc I would be extra cautious because of crashes. HTH

debster Posted 28 Feb 2007 , 2:41am

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Are you looking for computer font's? Try acidfonts.com they are free I think...........................

bobwonderbuns Posted 28 Feb 2007 , 2:39pm

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No, not necessarily computer fonts, just pretty monograms I can flow for cakes. To date I've been using my computer fonts which are okay, but there's nothing like a really pretty monogram!

SILVERCAT Posted 1 Mar 2007 , 2:56am

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I have a really cheap scrapbook program on my computer that has a ton of font on it! I pick out my font adn go from there with it! I did the writing on my daughters cake and my anniversary cake.

peacockplace Posted 1 Mar 2007 , 4:13am

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I know what you mean about monograms. They are kind of interlinked. You can really get that with a regular font. I've been looking too, and all the monogram stuff is $$$.

topaz176 Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 1:51am

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This might be a stupid question.
I see 3 intials at times.
What do the middle stands for?

deester Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 2:02am

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In a Nicholas Lodge book I had borrowed (Sugarcraft 1, maybe), he uses pretty font but traced each letter onto a square of wax paper so that they could then be arranged together (linked) and then draw them together on another sheet of waxed paper. Then do the color flow. Does that make any sense?

mgdqueen Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 2:33am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by topaz176

This might be a stupid question.
I see 3 intials at times.
What do the middle stands for?

Usually when there are 3 initials, the first one is the brides, the middle one is the groom's last name, and third is the groom's.

bobwonderbuns Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 1:00pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by deester

In a book I had borrowed (Sugarcraft 1, maybe), he uses pretty font but traced each letter onto a square of wax paper so that they could then be arranged together (linked) and then draw them together on another sheet of waxed paper. Then do the color flow. Does that make any sense?

I have all three sugarcraft books (been hooked on book 3 lately ), I should know that!! I also noticed that Toba had some great ideas for monogram how-tos in her book. What I did was find a font I liked and individually did the letters in color flow, then gilded them in gold. With the gold dust roses it looked fabulous!!

deester Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 7:10pm

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I'm just glad you knew what I was talking about !!

I haven't tried anything out of that book yet, but I aspire to someday! The color flow collars (?) are amazing - I can only dream....