Clock Face

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I am designing a clock face using roman numerals in Illustrator CS4. I am using Bodoni FLF font, which has a thin serif. I want to make the serifs follow the radius of the clock face. I tried using the Arch effect, which was not entirely successful, so I then added an Arc effect. This gave me the result I wanted in regards to the serif following the radius, but it also made the letters wider at the top than at the bottom, which my client does not want. If it helps at all, I am trying to replicate a large (abt 24" diameter) Seth Thomas wall clock from the early 1900s (or maybe somewhat earlier). I ultimately want to be able to cut this design on my Graphtec plotter, so the numbers/letters have to be outlined. Does anyone know an easier way to do this than to go back and manipulate each letter/number individually? Thanks!

Hello Irene,

I used Bodini FLF as well in the illustrations below, but also squished it together a bit to sort of match one of your image's numerals.

Should be more or less self explanatory.