You can use an online tool or a specialty printer, or you can create your own unique customized WANTED poster using free fonts, free papers, and tutorials. Use these custom posters as gifts, party invitations, decorations, and greeting cards. Use your favorite desktop publishing software to design and print your Old West style WANTED poster. Or come up with a completely different style.

Fonts, Paper Textures, and Tutorials

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These steps are the generic basics for an Old West style of poster. For detailed tutorials and all the resources you need, see the sections that follow.

• Use a paper texture that is old, faded, wrinkled, or torn.
• Add a photo. Turn a photo into a sepia print for that old, antique look.
• Add text. Type WANTED in a big bold slab serif Western font across the top of the poster.
• Add additional text such as the crime and any reward offered.
• Add a wood texture to the background if you want to make the poster appear to be plastered on the side of a building.

Free Papers and Wood Textures

You could print out your Wanted poster on some tan, brown, or gold parchment-style paper. Or, get free textures:

• Old Paper by Ayelie-stock (deviantART) is used in the example Wanted poster on the left. (Must sign in to view)
• Old paper by renguerra (morgueFile) is used in the example Wanted poster on the right.
• Old paper by andreyutzu (stock.XCHNG) is used in the Wanted poster Photoshop tutorial at Six Revisions (see tutorials, below).

If you want to put your poster up on the side of a building, you can get free wood plank textures for a background:

• Sue's Wood Pattern Textures Set for Photoshop includes some amazing wood patterns.

Mugshots

You don't have to use sepia-toned photographs or ugly mugshots if you don't want to but they can add a fun touch. Candid or posed photos are fine.

• These tips for making your own mug shots (police booking photos) can apply to your Wanted poster as well.
• Sepia Toned Photos are vital to giving your poster that aged and gritty look.
• Throw some props into the photo. Put the person behind bars. Add big black and white stripes across their clothing. For a birthday-themed poster add a silly party hat or scatter star-shaped confetti that looks like little Sheriff's badges.

Free Western Fonts

Slab serif fonts create the typical 'Old West Wanted' poster look. Commercial fonts you may already have installed that work well for a Western look includes Wanted, Playbill, Rockwell, Mesquite, and Ponderosa. Additionally, here are a handful of free slab serif fonts that also work especially well.

Make It Online

Upload a photo, then choose the other features you want and these online tools will create your Wanted poster for you.

• Glassgiant includes suggestions for lots of fun crimes such as cattle rustlin' or public intoxication or heart stealin' or flip-flopping or caffeine addiction.
• Tuxpi has a lot of different photo effects including Wanted poster.

Example of Text for Wanted Posters

We've created a few posters successfully in Serif PagePlus Starter Edition and Adobe Photoshop using the free fonts and textures described above. You could make a poster could be a fun invitation to a party honoring a certain person (or a couple in the case of an anniversary). A poster could include the following crime and reward text:

Wanted for Felony Font Abuse

Reward: The satisfaction of aiding in the eradication of bad kerning, font overload, use of Comic Sans, & other crimes against good design.