I confess I am being a little lazy here but then there is also no reason to reinvent the wheel.
I'm looking for a fancy font that works for a scrolled cut out. My initial thought is something akin to Old English. It doesn't have to be that, of course but I am looking for something that looks old.
The story is that we have a joke at work that the president has a "book of secrets" in his office with all the answers to everything. I thought it would be fun to make him one. I'm adapting Steve Ramsey's (Woodworking for Mere Mortals) book box for making on the scroll saw. I'd like to cut "Book of Secrets" on the front cover in some arcane looking font.
If push comes to shove, I can make the title an overlay or even, heaven help me, an inlay. I can go out and scour the font pages but I thought I could ask here first to see if anyone already knows of a suitable font for this project.
Oh, and while I am at it, I'd like to put a lock on it too (if you had a book of secrets, wouldn't you want it to lock?). I've got an idea or two about how I might could do it but I am open to suggestions for that too.
Thanks as always for your help.
