Single Line Font Question

[CharlieAnderson (Charles K Anderson)]

Does Lightburn have an option for text to be single line font? My only solution was to improvise.

I make a temporary file with Aspire to create my text using single line font then export the vectors as DXF then drop into LB. This works for the most part but seems like a bit of a work-around. If you want to change the font you have to go back and redo in Aspire, export, etc…

Is there a better way to do this?

[thelmuth (Tim Helmuth)]

If you have the single line fonts on your computer you need to tell Lightburn where they are. They don’t install like regular fonts. The setting in in the Settings (gears) menu.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

And if you are looking for additional SHX fonts (single line fonts), I provide the following.

SHX Font Collection

Now we have SHX Fonts available I have put together 44 single line fonts into a folder. I’m happy to make the folder of fonts available (dropbox link) if this is allowed and if anyone wants them. [shx] Update 2025-12-15 @ednisley The newest link and discussion. For reference, the oldest link as an unclickable graphic just to show how popular it was: [LightBurn - old SHX collection link]

[Laser4 (Graham Schulz)]

Hi Charlie, yes I use nanoCAD 5 for all my designs and save them as a DXF file. With single or multi line text use windows “words document” for your texts. once you have done your design in “words” go to file>save as and save it as a PDF file. Import it into LB, trace it and it will work ever time. Laser4 Graham

[MikeyH (Mike Hembrey)]

Most are not aware Windows has a bunch of single-line fonts standard as well.

I losded a bunch of SHX fonts, then began discovering similar fonts in the TT font list.

[CharlieAnderson (Charles K Anderson)]

Thanks for the link to the SHX fonts. That’s much easier than my other method.