New Tutorial!
 How to Draw Celtic Knotwork
A Side-By-Side Comparison of Two Methods
 For centuries the Celts have used these fascinating designs to decorate everything from manuscripts to pottery. The masters of this art used complex geometric diagrams to lay out these ornate mystical patterns.
In recent times several artists and authors have tried to teach the art of Celtic knotwork but the process still involved complex geometry and highly developed drawing skills. Their instruction manuals have become source material for clip art with few people actually learning to make the knots because the procedure was just too tedious for the average person. But now there has been a breakthrough, a revolutionary new way to create these wonderful patterns. Anyone who can use a word processor can now create thousands of delightful different Celtic knotwork patterns.
The Celtic Knot Font is a design tool that creates patterns by typing!
It comes with an assortment of Celtic knot designs that you can use as-is or easily modify with a few keystrokes to make your own knotwork patterns.
You really can make knotwork designs like this one in any word-processing program you already have, like Microsoft Word (PC) or TextEdit (Mac) - no graphics program needed:
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The Celtic Knot Font that lets you make an endless number of your own designs. |
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76 fully editable and resizable royalty-free knotwork designs made with the Font. (Use them as-is or modify to suit your needs.) You get borders, medallions, lines and a variety of decorative knots!
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A free Celtic Uncial-style lettering font. |
Looking for more ready-made designs? The accessory Pattern Packs offer
hundreds of ready-to-use, royalty-free knotwork designs (all for just $12)!
You can start making Celtic knots in minutes and take years to explore the myriad designs and complexity possible with this font.
For PC and MAC
Any program that has a font menu can use the Celtic Knot Font. That means that you can add Celtic knots to any document, graphic or image!
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Outline |
Filled |
Inverse |
3D |
Charted 12G Grid
for cross stitch,
looms, needlepoint |
Charted 12B Brick
for beadwork |
Click here to find out more!
Make decorations, borders, flyers, posters, cards and invitations; create designs for leatherwork, jewelry, embroidery, quilting, cross stitch, beadwork, stenciling, woodworking, stained glass, airbrush and decorative painting, etching glass or metal, and much, much more...
as easy as A, B, C!
This is not your ordinary font. I have taken traditional Celtic Knotwork and broken it down into reusable pieces and converted each piece into a character in a font. The result is that each key on your keyboard makes a piece of a Celtic knot.
There are nearly 200 different pieces
available in this font for you to play with!
You can assemble them into THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT DESIGNS that are FULLY RESIZABLE.
You change the size of any of the designs by just changing the font size! From 1/8 of an inch to as big as you can print, they print with SMOOTH EDGES and NO "JAGGIES" - even at billboard sizes!
100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!
We have sold more than 9000 copies and NONE have been returned!
Click here to order!
(with online ordering you could be playing with it in minutes!)
  
With the Font and Microsoft Word, you can make all kinds of fancy shapes and color combinations!
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Our NEW 3D
style!
The original
OUTLINE style.
The FILLED
style.
The INVERSE
style.
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NEW
3D STYLE!
We
are extremely pleased to announce the release of our latest new
Style!
In addition to our original Outline, Filled and Inverse
Styles, we now have a new 3D Style
Font to add to your Celtic knotwork tool boxes. I've been working
on this one for over 2 years! I have put in hundreds of hours of
drawing and tweeking to perfect the realistic carved look of this
new style. Each character has intricately constructed shading. As
one of our Beta testers said: "It really makes the knotwork
come alive!" It's as easy to use as any of the previous 3 styles,
but it produces a realistic carved look WITHOUT THE USE OF ANY SPECIAL
EFFECTS OR PHOTOSHOP TRICKS! The
shading is created with a series of gradually thickening lines so
that even at HUGE sizes it looks GREAT!
It
is precisely created to work with all of the other styles or it
can be used alone giving a striking raised look even in simple word
processor documents.
The
original Outline style is still
the best for general purpose use, especially for crafts. If your
hobby is leatherwork or quilting or wood carving (or any craft where
you want to transfer the knotwork patterns to your craft media)
chances are that you will want to transfer just the outline to your
project.
If
you intend to use the Celtic Knot Font for computer graphics or
print purposes consider getting the Filled
style to complement the Outline style. They have been
specifically engineered to work together! You can use the Outline
style in one color and use the Filled style in another color. It
is also usually the best choice for machine embroidery and CNC machining.
The
Inverse style was created to
allow the creation of another historically popular type of knotwork.
This style is characterized by a black or colored background with
the knotwork bands being left the color of the paper that they are
printed on. This style was used almost exclusively by Iain Bain
in the classic handbook Celtic Knotwork. It
is also very popular for
borders on flyers and posters. The Inverse style was also designed
to work with the Filled and Outline version, so you can easily fill
the knotwork bands with a color other than the background, just
by selecting a text color.
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All four styles work together seamlessly. They have been carefully laid out with the same character mapping so that if you create a knotwork pattern with any of the four styles you can change the font to any of the other styles to remake your knotwork in that style!
This is especially useful in Photoshop projects; you can create a design in one layer, duplicate the layer and then change the font style in one of the layers (to Filled for instance) and the two layers will line up exactly! With the Outline version alone, if you wanted to fill the bands of a knotwork pattern you would have had to meticulously select each little section of the bands and fill them. With the Filled version, you can select all of the pieces at once and fill them all at once. This is especially handy with Photoshop plugins like EyeCandy (great chrome, silver & bevels), and Super Blade Pro (unbelievable textures, colors, rust, dust, cracks, 3D shapes). The image below is an example of the Filled and Inverse styles used together in Photoshop with Super Blade Pro:
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For
a limited time we will be offering 4 styles in a discount package,
which includes 270 ready-made royalty free designs! - click
here to find out more!
It
works with the programs that you already have to create Celtic Knots.
FREE
Celtic lettering font included!
One of the
difficult aspects of the traditional methods of Knotwork design
is that you almost need to know what the knots will look like before
you even begin the layout. With this font there is no layout stage!
You can create and experiment and let the font do the work for you.
You never need to worry about which line goes over or under! That
part is done for you already. Think about how much your time is
worth, and think about how much time you will save using this font
as your layout tool. Even knotwork experts can save hours of time
even if you only use it to create few knots.
If you are
partial to a particular form of knotwork ornamentation, those aspects
can be added to a design created with the font more easily than
creating the entire design from scratch. Whether you use doubled
lines, dots, zoomorphics, or other styles, you can hand draw or
paint those elements into the designs once you have them worked
out with the font.
Please click on the links below to see some examples:
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What
our customers are saying:
(unsolicited comments)
"This is one of the most incredible things I have ever used on the computer. I've done graphic arts for 20+ years and you did a superb job creating this!"
"I am having more fun with this than any computer game!"
"I
love the program and feel it's one of the best twenty dollars I've ever
spent."
"I
downloaded everything successfully, installed it and was producing wonderful
knotwork on my screen, all inside of seven minutes!...The advent of sliced
bread doesn't even come close. Geeze, I'm having fun...!"
"Every
one of the artists here that I've shown it to thinks it's incredible."
"I
am so happy with the program....You have already saved me numerous hours
of prepwork. Again, money very well spent."
"I have installed the font on my PC
and I think its great. It's so easy to use and being able to transfer
it into 'paint' and colour in each section is terrific. Thank you very
much for an excellent piece of work."
"Just a big thank you for your new
Celtic Font!!!! I love it."
"I was very impressed with your packaging
and the booklet supplied...very nice! If you ever need a testimonial to
how fantastic your font is I will gladly give it. I have been using it
left and right and I cannot even begin to tell you how much time it has
saved me, as well as how inspiring it has been! I am constantly coming
up with new projects that I want to use it with...now if you can devise
a font that will give me TIME to do them all... Thank you again for your
time and work, you did a great thing!"
Received my fonts and wow what a trip.
I have been playing with it since it arrived, and what fun."
"Very simple, easy to understand,
and well thought out....Looks like you're detail oriented in your instructions
for use, which isn't surprising from someone interested in Celtic knotwork!"
"This is going to become one of the favorite fonts on my system!"
"I'm having a lot of fun with it."
"You really did a great job with this extraordinary font collection."
"I've done several beadwork designs in my books with the Celtic Knot theme and this would have made my life much, much easier!"
"I
absolutely love playing with this, and I only started today!"
"We're
having so much fun with your font. We have created all kinds of really
neat stuff."
"I can't believe how glued I am to the computer screen, and it's not a game! My brother likes it, too, and we don't usually like the same things".
"I understand several of the other
members have either purchased your fonts or are planning to do so. I know
that those who already have them are singing your praises. If you
decide to add to your collection, please let me know as I would be very
interested in adding it on."
"I appreciate your program and think
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"I am endlessly impressed with how well made this font is."
"That is really a good idea. I am
an industrial designer and I was actually searching the web for Celtic
knot examples to use as an etched detail.... Just what I was looking for."
"Had to tell ya...I am so pleased with my Celtic Knot font purchase! I had a coffee table I've been aching to finish as a hobby project. Celtic knots have always been fascinating to me, and I really wanted to include a stenciled celtic knot motif into a pseudo antique look....As a professional illustrator/graphic designer, I really appreciate the difficulty of designing precision patterns that are repeatable or tiled....When Google brought up your site,
I was extremely impressed with your solution...it's
a modular system for generating knot patterns! Wow! I knew I'd found my
solution....I purchased your font, downloaded it, and had it running
without issue, in probably 20 minutes. Using your outline font and your
tip sheet, I was able to do what I hoped...visualize in very short order
several potential designs on my Mac..."(continued here)
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