Questions about choosing the right font for the job, matching fonts, using fonts together, manipulating fonts, and font purchase and usage rights.
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Font GM Londinium
I need to use the font "GM Londinium" in a certificate header. But I can't find the downloadable font. Could anyone suggest some alternate fonts similar to GM Londinium or else suggestions as to where ...
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DejaVu Sans Condensed not showing up in Inkscape, despite installed
My system came with DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Sans Condensed installed by default.
PROBLEM: Inkscape only shows DejaVu Sans.
Do I have to configure something special in Inkscape?
Or is DejaVu Sans ...
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Identifying font type
I tried searching on WhatTheFont Site and asked in the forum to identify the font.
Here is the Logo:
The font type of the "MSB" 3D text needs to be identified.
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Which font would be best for titles and text in my promo video. [closed]
I made a promo video for my app and i am having a hard time picking a font for titles and text. Can you please suggest what would be best for it. Here is the link to the video. ...
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What retro font is this? All the sites I tried could not identify it
Im not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but what font is this? I am only interested in the numbers 0-9. Thanks!
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Help identifying a font family
I'm all new at Graphic Design, so correct me if you can. I found this graphic picture today from Earth Hour's website for 2012:
I really want some fonts that looks a bit like them. Someone having a ...
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How to find open source alternatives to commercial fonts?
What is the best way to find an open source alternative to a commercial font? I was thinking as some service as alternativeto.net or a whatthefont.com that would spit out fonts that are similar to the ...
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Identifying a couple more fonts
These two fonts are a pain to identify because of the formatting (one is partially masked) and the other is on a background that makes it hard to identify. There are two different images for the 2nd ...
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Identifying several fonts
I am trying to identify several fonts but hitting a brick wall.
Can anyone help me identify these fonts please?
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How to change the line height of a font
I want to change the "line height" of a font, that is the space between lines when the font is typed. I'd like to increase the space. (I need to use several fonts font in a text app with a fixed (non ...
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Hiding symbol (and other weird) fonts from Photoshop
In my Photoshop fonts menu there's a lot of fonts I'll never use, and these get in the way of finding the fonts I do use. Can I hide those never-use fonts from Photoshop? (I'm not sure font management ...
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How do I know if my downloaded font is legal
My graphic designer has specified Gotham Thin for the font in the iOS app that I'm writing. I googled around and found a site that will sell it to me, and I found some sites that just will let me ...
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What font does Apple use for printed document?
Serif font such as Times New Roman is usually used in printing document in Windows.
What is the equivalent font in Apple?
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Justification and hyphenation without proper time and tools?
In my computer science studies we are being forced to write a report every now and then. I have a background in web development and have worked closely with both print and web designers for many years ...
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What is the boldest version of the font Neuzeit?
What's the boldest variant of the "Neuzeit?"
Neuzeit Grotesk (or "GroT") is the boldest I've found online, but I just came across a sample in an illustration that was even bolder than that. I need to ...
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Fonts used by The New Yorker's iOS app?
Can somebody perhaps identify the exact fonts in use by The New Yorker's iOS app, esp. those shown the sample below? I find the whole app very well designed (both in terms of graphic design, ...
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Are there any free tools to convert .eot files to .ttf, .otf or any other font formats?
I've been given a .eot font file that needs to be used in a desktop program. So far none of the programs that I use (Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape) can read this font type. Are there any ways to convert it ...
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Any font pairing sites outside of Google?
I love how Google fonts allows you to pair fonts for great eye candy when designing but after time I have gotten tired of just seeing what Google suggests. I wanted to know if anyone has scene any ...
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Font copyright when used in images (Helvetica)
I have a specific Helvetica font that I use for text within graphics I am creating for my website, i.e. buttons, pictures.
Do I need a licence or is it sufficient just to have purchased the specific ...
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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 ...
