Everything you ever wanted to know about typefaces but were afraid to ask.
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Is Optima Roman or Optima Medium the Optima.ttc found in Mac OS X?
I'm currently working with a relatively small event run by volunteers and we want to be consistent across our publications. Currently we use Optima for the body text in our publications, but it's ...
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Font needed for 30's comic strip
Greetings from a beginner! I am part of a team trying to restore a 1930's newspaper comic strip for possible publication. We have to use newspaper scans, and the text is often very messy. It has to be ...
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How do you export a font from Glyphs
I just made some small tweaks to an OTF icon-font (iconic) and now I'm having trouble exporting this modified font. Have I missed something? Can you export from Glyphs to an OTF or TTF?
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Is a 10 point font big enough to use for small descriptions in a cv?
I am creating my CV on an A4 and I am wondering whether a 10 point font size is big enough. here is screenshot and I am talking about the content next to the crosses: http://d.pr/i/LDKK.
in fact do ...
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Database of font information
I'm looking for a database of font information, specifically limited to those found on Linotype. For example, given the typeface CRONOS, I'd like to be able to know if it is:
(sans/slab) serif?
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Standard Helvetica font
I'm loading a .psd that's missing Helvetica and I'm trying to determine if any one of these fonts matches the original one used (I just installed a Helvetica font family pack).
My choices in ...
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What are Google Webfonts or Typekit alternatives to Avenir Next Pro?
I'm looking for fonts, available from Google Webfonts (ideally) or Typekit, that would look similar to Avenir Next Pro, specifically, Bold and Demi:
Any similar-looking fonts, with good ...
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Is the Kaneiwa font freeware and can be used commercially?
I'm creating a logo design for a franchise I'm developing. To start it'll probably just be a webcomic, but eventually I'd like to take it commercially. I'd only use it in the logo, but I believe it ...
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A safe Chinese font similar to Facsimile (monospace) font
I am looking for a safe web font for chinese, similar to Facsimile font.
The concept is old fashion arcade games.
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Best calculation for leading in web design
This is an area I always dislike when in the design process of a website. That being said I'm trying to be more efficient and I wanted to know when some use a sans serif or serif font how do you ...
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Font and Color scheme [closed]
Greeting guys, I am looking for good color scheme and free for commercial use font for website associated with clubs festivals and electronic music. Thank you. I want to do it myself as I all have now ...
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How can I apply the outlines and curves of a font to a logo?
I'm playing with a logo and I'd like to be able to use the font outlines to create the basic symbol. For example, I'm trying to create new leaf utilizing a slab serif font.
What is the best way to ...
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Fonts not combining correctly into a family (PC)
I'm using FontCreator 6.5 professional. I have two fonts in the same family, and in "naming" I've given them the same Font Family Name, and in Subfamily one is called Regular and the other is called ...
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Good font for a rest home logo?
I need to make a logo for an old age home, but I've had trouble selecting a font. It needs to be friendly, but not too cartoony. Does anyone have a good font idea?
This is the logo (it is WIP, and my ...
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Does anyone know of any font families that 6, 9, 8, 0 look the same upside down as right side up?
Does anyone know of any font families that 6, 9, 8, 0 look exactly the same upside down as right side up? The 6 upside down would look like 9 and vice-verse. Thanks!
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Open type sans serif fonts with true small caps
I am designing the front cover page for my book in Adobe Illustrator. I would like to have a nice sans serif font for my main title. I chose Lucida Sans (font style = Demibold Roman). However, I have ...
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Inline Text in Photoshop [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I create a solid line of uniform thickness inside of a letterform in Illustrator?
I have been messing around in Photoshop trying to re-create this effect!
I ...
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The most legible sans-serif question mark for small sizes?
Trying to come up with the most legible sans-serif question mark for my Google reCAPTCHA's help icon. The ones that Google use are either too retro or too unreadable (below).
I want a question mark ...
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Best Arabic Font for Mobile Websites?
I'm wondering which is the best arabic font to use in mobile websites that renders well on both android and iOS. I've tried Arial and Verdana and both are quite "crowded" on the default browser on ...
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Where can I find a font with numbers, letters and symbols to use in a design of a calculator?
I am looking for a font to use in a calculator. It needs to have alphabetic characters (a-z), and hopefully mathematics symbols like:
+ − x ÷ ( )
It's for using it in a calculator app design. Any ...
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Creating a Cyrillic font with OSX Glyphs.app fails when made web safe
I have a full Latin alphanumeric font made and am attempting to add Cyrillic characters to the mix.
I am using OSX Glyphs.app.
I am able to make the Cyrillic characters and export the font as an ...
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Is the : (colon) and . (fullstop) a bit oversized in Courier font?
Today I came across a blog post on daring fireball about a new font: Courier Prime. From the font preview, I found that the : and . are a bit oversized.
Then I checked the Courier font in Mac Font ...
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free 'Helvetica Neue' alternative
Does anyone know any other fonts similar to Helvetica Neue (free for commercial use)? I'm working on a big website project where 'Helvetica Neue' is used heavily. I need a font that looks almost the ...
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Problems altering font icon set in Fontlab
I found a nice social icon set as font: http://www.tajfa.com/projects/rondo/
What I now want is to remove the circular borders around them, but when I open them with Fontlab Studio 5 I only see a ...
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CharterBT/CMSans complementary monospaced font
I am writing a technical documentation in LaTeX which will also include code listings and in-text keywords set in Monospace. After reading this post i chose a combination of CharterBT for text and ...
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Anyone knows the fonts used in this Resume?
I found a really creative resume when I was surfing the web this morning, and it uses some awesome sans-serif typefaces, but I don't know the fonts. Has anyone seen them before? (WhatTheFont was no ...
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How to copy a character from Font Book on Max OS X Lion?
I'll like to use a symbol font character (upper right in the image, Glyph 5081). How can I copy the character from the Font Book and paste to another app?
UPDATE: I can find the character at left, ...
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Add an outline around type in Illustrator and then delete it from the letterform?
I have a font that I want to be marginally thinner. I've typed out the word and then added a white outline around it.
What I want to do is delete the outline, whilst maintaining the thinner font. How ...
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Polish characters indesign CS3
I got a word document translated into Polish which I am supposed to put into an idesign file. The indesign file already exists in English and the font used is Corporate SBQ. When I copy paste the ...
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What Font is Grand St? Good practice to reverse-engineer fonts in General?
https://grandst.com/
I'm really attracted to that kind of vintage look. Does anyone know any similar type fonts that I can play around with? Is there a good practice to go about understanding ...
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What are the more respected sans serif fonts that come standard on most computers?
I've been tasked with making a powerpoint theme for the company I work for and one of the requirements is that it uses a font that comes standard with most computers. What are some of the built-in ...
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Illustrator CS5 crashes when I open fonts menu
Does anyone know of a way to fix this? Googling reveals only solutions for older versions.
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Identify the font in the King's Hawaiian logo
I was recently enjoying some tasty King's Hawaiian Bread. I noticed their font for their logo and would like find a font with a similar look. I ran their logo through What The Font and it returned ...
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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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Considerations when using multiple font faces (on webpage or CD cover)
I’m experimenting with fonts for learning purposes, and I noticed that using only one font type looks many times plain, but using more can easily make a mess out of my webpage and CD cover (these are ...
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Can anyone identify the font in this image?
could anyone identify the font in the image below? I've found a lot of fonts that are very similar, but none that are dead on matches.
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What considerations are there in designing pixel fonts?
I'm designing monospace pixel fonts for a game, and so far I've only been able to work with extremely small sizes (largest I've managed is 5x9) because those ones are the easiest to try and err with. ...
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What is the best way to browse a large font collection?
I needed one font...then i found 24000. I installed all of them. My computer started to take minutes to do everything. So ...
How do i browse all fonts without crashing everything..not that i think ...
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What font to enhance 1-2 words within block of Helvetica/Arial?
I'm trying to find an alternative to simply "bold/italic" words that I want to enhance within a continuous block of Helvetica/Arial text.
For example:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur ...
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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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Vector pasting in wrong spot / Font Lab and Illustrator
I built out some shapes to test out a font icon idea.
I drew them in Illustrator. I set my art-board to pt at 1000 x 1000.
I filled the objects and moved the ruler so that 0 was the baseline.
From ...
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Are Google Web-Fonts okay for printing?
Do Google's fonts function just like any other font? I've only gotten a few but they look a little poor in quality when used in print applications. Has anyone used them for a print design and did it ...
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Alternative to font “x” chart or service?
I have a number of typefaces for which I'd like to find free or open licence alternatives to. Rather than ask a series of "What is the best open license font to substitute for 'Goudy Catalogue'? ...
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What is this font effect called?
The title says it all. What is the effect used in this image and how are there any good tutorials to do it in Photoshop?
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Convert OpenType (PostScript flavor) to OpenType (TrueType flavor)
I want to convert a OpenType (PostScript flavor) font to an OpenType (TrueType flavor) font. This is because Office Word cannot make pdf´s using a OpenType (PostScript flavor) font. To make it more ...
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Help identify this crazy ugly font…please!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90769238@N04/8244823596/
Please help me either identify this font from the Genz-Ryan logo or suggest a company that provides the service of identifying fonts. Please ...
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Which font have the same width for every character?
I would like to have a font that have same width of every character....
For example, a W width is wider than the i in most of the font...Is there any font have the same size for that? Thanks.
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Freely available old-style serif fonts with multiple weights
When I typeset text, I love to be able to choose from a large array of different weights (and, if possible, expansions). Having light and semi-bold variants in addition to the regular and bold weights ...
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Ascender and descender heights: all equal?
Are all ascender and descender heights typically equal in well-designed typefaces? Does using identical ascenders and descenders increase readability, or is it not an issue at all?
