How it works
Tattoo number fonts on one sheet: 07.14.2019 set in 17 faces at once, up to six rows a page. Type your own date, year or number. The 1, the 7 and the 0 change most from face to face.
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Numbers that line up, numbers that dip
Most of the 17 draw lining figures, every numeral as tall as the next. Raleway and IM Fell English SC draw old-style figures: 0, 1 and 2 stay short, 6 and 8 rise, and 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 hang below the line. Pinyon Script keeps its numerals tall and drops the 7 below the line as a long hook.
The 1, the 7 and the 0
Dancing Script and Kaushan Script cross the 7 with a bar. In IM Fell English SC the 1 is a small capital I, so 11:11 reads II:II. Cousine puts a dot in its zero, so it cannot pass for an O. In Poiret One, 0 and O are the same circle.
- Kind of sheet, under More options: Letter grid with the box empty prints 0 to 9 in one face.
- Italianno draws the smallest numerals here, about three quarters as tall as its capitals.
Questions and answers
Which tattoo fonts for numbers keep 1 and 7 apart?
Dancing Script and Kaushan Script, which cross the 7. In the typewriter faces Cutive Mono and Cousine the 1 has a flag and a wide foot, and no 7 on the sheet has a foot.
Which number fonts for tattoos have the finest lines?
The first three rows: Poiret One, Josefin Sans and Raleway, all hairline sans serifs. Pinyon Script, Allura, Italianno and Sacramento are thin scripts. Look offers Drop shadow and Pen weight, which thickens every stroke a little.
Which faces give every numeral the same width?
Cutive Mono, Cousine and Archivo Black. Their ten numerals share one width, so two dates set in the same face line up digit under digit. In the other fourteen faces the 1 takes less room than the 0.
Are there Roman numerals or Old English numbers here?
Not on this sheet. The Roman numeral font generator converts a date to Roman numerals, and gothic font numbers sets one in eleven blackletter and uncial faces.