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Date Posted: 05:10:26 08/10/01 Fri
Author: Chris Lawson
Subject: Re: Painting a Color Classic - Letraset Font
In reply to: Jeff B. 's message, "Re: Painting a Color Classic - Letraset Font" on 04:37:50 08/10/01 Fri

One more possibility...

If you have a way to print onto very stiff cardboard or plastic (slightly thicker than a transparency), you could make your own custom spray-painting template. This would work for those Macs without a name badge too, if you wanted to paint one and then add the "Macintosh [name]" back onto the case afterwards.

Get AppleGaramond and the stiff template material. Print out a few test copies on regular paper until you get the font size correct. Once you have the font size the way you want it, print (in black) onto the template.

Get an x-acto knife made for cutting photographic mats from an art supply store. VERY CAREFULLY cut out the individual letters from the template, making sure to leave small nubs to hold the centres of the "closed" letters (a, o, e, p, d, b, etc.) in place. You might want to make two copies of the template so you can put the nubs in a different place on the second one.

Once you have the template(s) made, tape them LEVEL onto the front of the Mac (you didn't want your Mac's name to be crooked, did you?), over where you want the lettering. Mask off the area around the template (especially if you're spray painting it) and then put a few thin coats on the template. If you made two templates, take the first one off after about three coats and put the second one on and then fill in the blank spots (from behind the nubs).

It's a big initial investment time-wise, but you can re-use the templates over and over, and it's probably a lot easier than finding blank badges and AppleGaramond stick-on letters...

cl

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