Harold's Monograms computer fonts
©2001 Harold Lohner
HLohner@aol.com
www.haroldsfonts.com

HM-Black Oval Three is freeware. (It was formerly called Black Oval Monogram.) Use the instructions below and give it a try. If you like it, there are 7 more in the set to produce black and white, oval and diamond, 2- and 3-letter monograms! And, now available separately, Script Monograms (see the web site.)

Harold's Monograms fonts allow you to create any monogram easily by just typing in any program.

Here's what you do:

1. Install the font and launch the program, of course.

2. Type ? [question mark] to get the ring (optional).

3. The left-hand letters are located at the lowercase positions (a-z). Type the left initial.

4. The large center letters are located at the uppercase positions (A-Z). Type the center initial.

5. The right-hand letters are somewhat trickier to locate. The letters are located as follows: (in numerical order mostly, not too hard to find)

A 1	H 8	O %	V = or +
B 2	I 9	P ^	W [ or {
C 3	J 0	Q &	X ] or }
D 4	K !	R *	Y \ or |
E 5	L @	S (	Z ; or :
F 6	M #	T )
G 7	N $	U - or _

After the right-hand initial is typed, the monogram is complete and the cursor will move to the right.

For a one-letter monogram, use a three-letter monogram font. Type ? [question mark] for the ring; < [less] for the blank in the left position; [CAPITAL INITIAL]; > [greater] for the blank in the right position.

For an A&B style insignia, type ` [grave accent] to produce the ampersand in the center.

Also:

In the 2-letter monogram fonts, skip step five above; the monogram is complete after the second letter is typed.

Except for the final letters, the characters have a pre-set width of 0 to allow for proper alignment of the assembled monogram.