Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27340559-20160321065257

In the absence of being able to carve blocks, and in the stead of annoying signs, I suggest lettering.

– Lettering would be a new block similar to a sign.

– It would be invisible except for the letters.

– It would be square, unlike signs, which are rectangular, leaving those little spaces on top and on the bottom where one can't write.

– The writing on the block would be able to extend completely to the sides of the lettering block, unlike signs again, which leave an unavoidable too-big gap when one tries to write a sentence over adjacent signs.

– The lettering would be as close to the block as possible, unlike signs and item frames, which stick out.

– They would come in varients of bronze, silver, iron, gold, ithildin, and mithril. Ithildin lettering would glow similarly to orcs' eyes.

– They would be able to be placed flat on the ground and on walls, on any solid block.

– Dashes, vertical slashes and diagonal slashes would be enlongated when writing with the lettering block, as lettering, especially ithildin lettering, could also be used to make pictures like the west-gate of Moria. Elongated dashes and slashes would mean unbroken lines would be able to be drawn, further unlike signs, where often the best you can do is this: --

– The ability to write in Tengwar and Cirth on lettering blocks would be useful, but probably rather hard to add.

– Inside the lettering block writing screen there would be a toggleable option for large letters, each of which would take over the entire block.

– They would be craftable with four of the respective nuggets on a normal crafting table, except for ithildin lettering blocks, craftable on a High Elven or Dwarven crafting table with normal ithildin. The recipe is this:

Nothing  Nugget  Nothing

Nugget  Nothing  Nugget

Nothing  Nugget  Nothing

– Ithildin would be crafted with two glowstone dust and one mithril nugget on a High Elven or Dwarven crafting table, in a shapeless recipe.

Uses: Lettering blocks could be used for engraved writing, large dwarven doors (as already mentioned), and as replacement for annoying signs. The could also be used simply to decorate blocks, especially those of thrones and chairs. 