So I started playing around with the light box idea... First I cut out 3 inch letter forms of A and B. I tried using the B on the light box. I knew that having a sheet of thick mat board cutout in front of the light source may not be very legible since there could be a lot of light coming out from the sides.
So I grabbed a big chip box and cut out a hole on one end to tape up the letter to. I flipped it the box upsidedown and popped a lamp into a small opening at the bottom.
It was really hard getting the light to come out and give clean lines and a legible letter... This is supposed to be a B... Even with the box only 1 foot in front of the wall, the B was extremely hard to make out.
While I was moving things I around I placed my letters against my laptop monitor and noticed that I could try seeing what it'd look like with light coming from my laptop... I used a plain white background as well as an image.
Then I decided that the 3 inch letters were too big and tried cutting out a smaller piece of cardboard to possibly get a better sample.
Also figured it may be better to try using a flashlight, so I got out a LED flashlight and finally got better results...
The handy dandy LED flashlight.
I am pretty happy with how that turned out and am sure I can get the rest of the letter forums. I just need to stay away from cutting with thick mat board since it'd be too difficult at that smaller size.
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