Typophile - Certificate Borders - Comments

I think those borders are

Miss Tiffany — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:55:20 -0700

I think those borders are not the same, but useful for other things just the same.

What you want is available

mondoB — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:49:10 -0700

What you want is available as the “Certified Borders” series at MyFonts, in which the frame components are broken down into the equivalent of letters in a font alphabet, which makes everything easier to control and compose:

http://www.myfonts.com/search?search%5Btext%5D=certified+borders

This isn’t a tutorial, but

Miss Tiffany — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:38:43 -0700

This isn’t a tutorial, but a lightbox from iStockphoto. Vector Engravings.

I figured there’d be a

Asvetic — Mon, 8 Jan 2007 09:30:25 -0800

I figured there’d be a nice tutorial that shows you how to manipulate the Transform tool to recreate the spirals and stuff, and then show you how to create a seamless pattern brush out of it all.

Find yourself a spirograph!

aluminum — Mon, 8 Jan 2007 09:02:07 -0800

Find yourself a spirograph!

Thanks Ben. I’ll give that

Asvetic — Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:20:31 -0800

Thanks Ben. I’ll give that a gander. I wasn’t even thinking Bank Notes or Engraved Patterns as a search query.

Excentro. See also:

bshaykin — Mon, 8 Jan 2007 07:54:08 -0800

Excentro.

Certificate Borders

Asvetic — Mon, 8 Jan 2007 07:20:57 -0800

Hi all,

Has anyone come across any resources for Certificate Borders.

The best I found so far was this guy: http://www.artistmike.com/CertificateDesigns/1.html
He charges $25 bucks for each border (which isn’t outrageous, but I’d like to find a more affordable, preferably free resource if I could.)

Tutorials would be another great resource.

Border like these are more desirable: