Questions tagged [fonts]
Questions about matching fonts, using fonts together, manipulating fonts, font selection and font purchase and usage rights. Please use a more specific tag if available.
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Which sans-serif pairs are good using typeface Foco for headlines?
I am kind of struggling with pairing right sans-serif typeface for body text. I need to use Foco for headlines for certain reasons. So far I didn't like anything I tried and I feel stuck. I would be ...
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Match font for an icon
Hi I am working with bootstrap navbar and I have 4 flat icons (very sharp outline) like below :
I need to make another one to show another menu option in the navbar. The new icon is only text with ...
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Why does Photoshop not render my font letter directly under its family letter?
This has bothered me for ages, a way out of the problem is to, of course, create the text in a new layer, and then position that where you need it. My question is, however, why does Photoshop render (...
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Differences between Proxima Nova Cond and Proxima Nova A Cond?
Trying to get this font for a client and got stuck trying to figure out the difference(s) between Proxima Nova Cond and Proxima Nova A Cond?
I notice the lowercase 'a' is different (together with all ...
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How to Create Compound Characters Inside a Font
Wondering if it's possible to organize a font to have features such as combining characters.
Basically, I'm wondering if you can design a font in a modular way so that it can have these features:
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Ideas how to create oldschool gold logo similar to Labyrinth
I need to create Labyrinth style logo, but with the text "Puzzled Pint" for the small event I'm hosting. It should be similar to this:
Does anyone have any tutorial? Or even some advice?
I extracted ...
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The dimensions of a monospaced font
I have never made a font so bare with me if this is a beginner question. I am wondering what the dimensions are of a monospaced font. I understand that since it is monospaced every glyph has the same ...
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What font is used in these wooden trail signs?
I originally thought the standard was Helvetica, but looking at these examples we see the font is narrower and the 'R' doesn't look like Helvetica.
Also, these signs are typically routed -- so the ...
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Font for representing Unicode non‐printable characters
I need a good font for representing control characters. And it seems one is installed on my system and that my keyboard layout creator software use it as it’s default installed font (I have thousands ...
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Can anyone tell me what font it is? [closed]
a friend of mine want's me to find what font is used in this image.
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What is this font? The word "Fall" Specifically
What is this font? The word "Fall" Specifically.
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How long it takes to design a nice font
Wondering how long (rough estimate) it would take one who is skilled with vector tools to design a full featured font with font hinting and everything.
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Font replacement for DR Agu Sans Black
There's that beautiful DR Agu Sans Black:
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/rastvortsev/dr-agu-sans/black/
Do you know any free/cheaper replacements for that?
I've tried ObelixPro and LuckiestGuy, but ...
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Bold Sans Font Identification
Does anyone recognize this font? I have found quite a few that are similar but no exact matches. I've run through every automatic font-ID site listed here and the closest I've found is Twentieth ...
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Why have different font faces for title, text body and graphs in texts?
I have read several recommendations, e.g. this one to use different font families for titles (sans-serif), the text body (serif) and graphs (sans-serif). This is also what the default article document ...
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Is there a way to select OpenType features in Inkscape?
Today's OpenType fonts have a lot of features included like:
kerning, capital spacing, ligatures, old style figures and stylistic sets.
I miss these features a lot. Is there a way to select ...
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Why is Corbel listed as bad font for body text in Butterick's Practical Typography?
We are creating branding guidelines for a nonprofit voluntary organization. Only around 10 people will create content, but a lot more people will need to be able to view documents and publications ...
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Pixel Width of characters in a font
Is there any easy way to figure out the width of each character in a font? I'm trying to line up two tables of data with data scraped from a website. The issue is that the text in one section of the ...
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Is it ok to mix fonts in Japanese documents?
If careful, reading, understanding, and form can be improved when mixing fonts carefully. For example, using carefully matched sans-serif fonts for titles with serif-fonts for text can achieve a ...
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Help Me Find a Matching Font for My Logo [closed]
I have designed the logo below for a social network and am looking to put the name "UMMATI" beside it. I'm trying to decide on a font that looks good beside it and to decide whether the text should be ...
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Can you identify this Art Nouveau font in a metal plate?
I have seen this before but I cannot find it via Google Images, nor via other font identifiers. I know I used it before, back when my workstation was Windows. I have already traced the other object ...
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How to make a font file bold/italic
Basically, I downloaded Google fonts, that do not have bold/italic variants. I can make them bold/italic with css, but I also have to use the .ttf file (which is only normal) in ffmpeg. There is no ...
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Central, simplified, "pen" strokes of a font glyph
Take a look at this picture:
The red lines inside a glyph is what I'm referring to as "central" or "pen" strokes. Imagine you drawing the letter using a pen, so you only have thin strokes which ...
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Are all characters equal-width in a monospace font?
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| wow |
| O |
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Illustrator: noting fonts before creating outlines
Is there a way to keep a 'virtual notebook' of a file so I can remember which fonts I used after I've created outlines? I really like fonts and have far too many, so it's hard to remember which one I ...
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A good monospaced font to go with Computer Modern font
I am not that experienced with pairing fonts but am wondering if one could direct on which is a good monospaced font to go with Computer Modern, or at least the principles one could use to figure out ...
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Figuring out the Ligatures/Kernings of a Font
There are ways to measure text in the browser, taking into account the font size. However, you could get a performance improvement if you only measure the different characters, and then you combine ...
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Fully cursive font selection help
I am trying to 3D print some names for a wedding and I'm trying to make them all the same font. The issue I am having is that the cursive font that I have chosen (Milkshake) looks cursive but does not ...
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Can anyone help identify this font? [closed]
Can anyone help identify this font?
Cover of Esquire Singapore magazine in 2014, I'm trying to find the font used for the name George.
Thanks :)
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What is the difference between a logo with a certain "image" and logo with just the name of the company?
What is the difference between a company's logo that has a small picture beside the company's name like that of stackexchange beside which there is a small logo of something like a message icon and a ...
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How to fix this kerning pair
How do I fix a font with a problematic kerning pair.
The problematic pair is capital T preceded by a space, when set in Helvetica Neue 55, and with kerning set to 'Metrics', using InDesign. The ...
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Create metric-compatible font
How can I create a font that is metric-compatible with a commercial font?
I don't need actual glyphs, just rectangles that will preserve the document layout.
What properties are important?
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font substitution in Scribus
I'm trying to build a Scribus template for use by people who do not necessarily have some of the fonts that the template prefers.
In CSS one can define a "font-family", such as font-family: "Times ...
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Insert special characters as text in Illustrator
How do I insert the ∝ symbol and other special characters in illustrator text?
I tried and this is what I get instead of the ∝:
I searched here about special characters, but is there a way to just ...
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How is this Chinese character with boxes in the background font achieved on iOS?
I was wondering how this text effect was achieved? The characters appear with boxes behind them on desktop versions as well (this is from Instagram) and i’m wondering how this was achieved and where I ...
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What is the font used on Instagram story?
Just looking to see if anyone knows what the font is that Instagram stories is using for their "modern" typeface?
Here's an example that says "how artsy" in the modern font on Instagram's stories.
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Where to download Sketch’s version of the SF font?
I’ve been using Sketch’s default iOS UI library, which uses Apple’s SF font. I already have a version of the SF font, but it doesn’t seem to be the same one Sketch defaults to. I’m sick of getting the ...
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Tricky emphasis problem on a webpage - making it more subtle
I'm tweaking the design of this page on personal website. I'm not pleased with the way the publication author names with links are emphasized right now - with an underline. Other options I've ...
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can you tell me this font [closed]
I am trying to figure out this font. I can't get Whatthefont to come up with one like this.
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Some fonts in Inkscape don't display in Inkscape
I've noticed that some fonts don't display properly in Inkscape (0.92.3). Take Lato for example (downloaded from fontsquirrel). It contains 9 different weights (excluding Italics). Some display fine, ...
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What is this fonts name?
I can't find this font anywhere. Does anyone knows this font? Look how G, J, Q and R look.
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Font With 256 Distinguishable Characters (For Binary Files)
I am creating a hexadecimal binary file editor similar to https://hexed.it/. However, for my text editor, I would like to have there be a separate distinguishable character for each of the 256 ...
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Font identification(Does anyone know what this font is?)
Can anyone identify this font on the pic? or can at least give me a font that is close/similar to this one?
Thanks!
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Pairing the "Learning Curve" font
I'm trying to find a good pairing for the Learning Curve font, to use in a website. This particular font is used in the client's logo.
I must convey a stylish and elegant mood, and I've tried to pair ...
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Need help identifying a decorative font
Back in the 90s I used a small utility called "Bannermania" from Broderbund Software to make banners. It came with several fonts in a proprietary binary format and I need a TTF version of one of them ...
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Why can't I display all glyphs in some fonts?
Why some glyphs are not working from some fonts? They are showing "No Unicode" in the Glyphs panel and I can't access them. I tried also to edit the font and add codes for the glyphs I want, but this ...
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Does anyone know a good pixel font 7px tall?
I'm looking for a pixel font which I'll use later on to convert/use on an lcd type of display and the maximum height is 7px.
I've started by checking out dafont's bitmap fonts, but it takes quite a ...
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Should a typographical scale refer to line-height or to the font-size?
First of all, I want to apologize to any serious typographers for using the names of css-attributes instead of proper names. With "font-size" I mean here the defined font-size as one would in css (...
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Are Adobe Typekit fonts "free" to use?
Being a CC subscriber, is it ok to use Adobe Typekit fonts for commercial purposes?
And are there any other notable T's and C's one should be aware of when using Typekit fonts?
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