FWIW, as a professional graphic designer/typographer my solution was to study each font I used, either acquiring a sample booklet — the Adobe Originals were wonderful for that, but unfortunately the page with the PDFs seems to be off-line:
https://www.adobe.com/products/type/adobe-type-specimens.html
(one could try instead: site:adobe.com filetype:pdf original - Google Search )
I would suggest instead, doing a V carve into a piece of scrap and amassing a collection of cut type samples organized by which ones work well (and at what sizes and materials) and which ones don’t.