Everything you ever wanted to know about typefaces but were afraid to ask.
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how to export and import from and to fontographer
I am trying to do something that seems like it should be easy, but is proving to be difficult. I want to export certain glyphs from a font, modify them in a vector graphics program and then re-import ...
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What are great fonts for information-heavy data tables?
I'm designing a web application which has lots of data tables with business information both as numbers (sales, hours etc) and text (product names, region names etc).
What fonts are great for dense ...
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Newspaper Title Font?
Does anyone know of a font for the title of a newspaper? The type that's used for the first letter of a chapter of a book, and is so calligraphic, you can't tell if it has serifs or not. Something ...
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Optimum line height in relation to font size
Is there an agreement on the optimum mathematical proportion of line height and the size of a text? And if there is, is it the same for print and web?
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What font is used in this logo?
Can anybody help me figure out what font is used in the logo on this site:
I tried identifont.com but got no joy there.
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Photoshop - finding a font
I don't know if any of you had this problem, I'm using photoshop CS3,
And sometimes in order to choose a font quickly, while the text tool is selected, I click on the text field that shows the ...
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The selection and use of typefaces for the non-designer
I am looking for a short, concise resource that will help me better choose and use typefaces.
I think the ideal resource would have a thoughtfully chosen list of about a dozen of the most important ...
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What's wrong with Droid fonts?
I have seen on various places that people consider Droid font family with contempt. In latest Android it has been replaced with another family called Roboto.
I'm interested in why is that, from ...
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What are the differences between Helvetica and Arial?
I've heard there are a number of slight differences between these two similar fonts, is one better than the other for different contexts?
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What are good sources for Open-Source fonts?
What are good sources for Open-Source fonts?
Note that by "Open-Source" I don't mean only free, but truly "open, free to modify and published under an Open Source license" fonts. These are still very ...
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Which cut of Gill Sans is it that is included on a Mac?
Like many classic fonts, there are several different cuts of Gill Sans by various publishers. Monotype distribute it as 'Gill Sans MT', and Adobe and ITC have their own versions.
Which version is the ...
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Pixels in PSD not accurate for fonts [duplicate]
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What does the size of the font translate to exactly?
I'm trying to figure out why my fonts in a PSD are not telling me the accurate pixel height.
I set up a new ...
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Font with transparent holes-fill in and outline in illustrator
I'm using a font called Nashville. I want to outline only the most outside of the paths. If I try to use the outline tool, it outlines all of the small holes in the font, too. I want to fill in the ...
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Have the IPA characters from Sylfaen ever been released?
Sylfaen as originally designed had a full set of International Phonetic Alphabet characters, and they appear in a paper on the designers' website. But the version that was free with Windows XP ...
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Can you help me identify this font?
What is the font used in this image?
It is too squat to be arial, verdana, tahoma, or any of the other typical non-serif fonts, and the image isn't crisp enough for me to make any headway on ...
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Thin font output
I have an illustrator text in Myriad Pro light 8 pt that I need to output to a png or gif. The quality degrades tremendously.
What is the best practice to get a good quality screen output on thin and ...
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Text Alignment Issues When Opening Adobe Illustrator CS5 File in CorelDRAW X6
I have a file in Adobe Illustrator CS5 (AI-CS5) which I open in CorelDRAW X6 (CD-X6) because it has to go to commercial printers which only accept CD-X6 files. The problem is that when I open the file ...
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How to revert to Windows original font list
I started working as a freelance graphic designer and I have many fonts installed from the era when I was just doing stuff for entertainment and learning. I don't want to use these fonts for my ...
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After purchasing fonts, what further “permissions” are necessary to use them in commercial design work?
There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding font "licensing" and "permissions". Isn't the license to design with it what we are purchasing when buying the font? For basic commercial design work, ...
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Is there a term for vertically low typefaces?
I am looking for a choice of fonts where (in capitals) the horizontal lines are relatively low. For example in this Martini logo:
The horizontal in the A and R are way below the middle of the ...
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What does “PDF-compatible glyph names” mean?
In Fontographer 5, when I want to generate font files, it asks me do I want to "Keep glyph names as they are" or make glyph names "PDF-compatible".
What does the "PDF-compatible glyph name" mean ...
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Building hand-written fonts for lettering
I am looking to build a custom font from my handwriting for lettering a comic.
what professional tools exist to build such a font and export it into one of the mainstream formats (TTF, OpenType, or ...
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What is the best .otf file editor? [closed]
What is the best .otf font file editor ? i have try font lab studio but i can' t save in .otf file...
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“Cutout” effect in Fontographer 5
When I paste a thinner version of a letter on a bolder one, I get this cutout effect inside it, somewhat similar to this:
(please note that this is not my image, not my font and that I do not claim ...
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What's the difference between fonts Meta OT Bold and Meta Pro Bold?
OT Bold vs Pro Bold
More generally, when two fonts differ only by the last bit of their name, what does it mean? Is it "the same font", but by different foundries?
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Clearly display small font size
What techniques (or different fonts) could I use to fonts to make small text (about 10px) look nice in Photoshop?
Here is what I tried, but every time it looks blurry, or too bold:
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Why does Twitter app use different fonts in two screens?
I'm sure that this is not a coincidence, that it was very well thought out by the designers of this app, but I can't seem to understand why. In the timeline, they use a sans-serif font, while in the ...
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How do I convert leading and kerning expressed to CSS styles
I have been given a design / style guide for a website that has the fonts expressed in point (pt) measurements, and additional leading and kerning adjustments - e.g. 40pt font, 60pt leading, -30pt ...
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Fixed width character subset in proportional fonts?
In many proportional fonts, numerals (i.e. 0123456789) have identical width to facilitate vertical alignment. My question is simple: are there any characters that conventionally share the exact same ...
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How can I keep the font-width consistent in SVG across different operating systems and browsers?
I'm trying to add some text to a SVG file. The text is dynamic and shown over a rectangle which acts as background.
Since the text is dynamic, the width of background rectangle also needs to be ...
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Web font that supports some basic music symbols
I am working on a web page that displays some music note names such as "B", "Bb" (B flat), or C# (C sharp). For a better readability I would prefer to display the correct flat and sharp symbols.
It ...
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Anticipating problems with a Google Webfont's rendering cross-platform
Web fonts can sometimes look great on one machine, but awful on another, due to differences in rendering not just between browsers, but also with the same browser between operating systems.
Most ...
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Font licensing for a web app hosted on clients servers
Frutiger 55 was the winner of the crude typo-battle I hosted in my mind this week (I felt really sorry for poor Gill Sans, one of my top-5 of all time). I want to use it for a Web App that is hosted ...
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What Font Is Being Used In This Image?
Can anybody help me figure out what font this is being used in this image?
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This font has evaded me for too long! 'Arvo'? [closed]
there is a link to the page that has 'Arvo' on. I am looking for this font! I checked the css, and it is Avro on font family. Anyone know where I can nab it?
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What are the consequences of using unlicensed fonts?
I know that whenever somebody makes something and we want to use it, it is better to contribute to them and pay for it. But I have nothing to hide: I have used fonts illegally a few times. Is it ...
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IS ALL CAPS EVER OK?
I'm recreating a Character Sheet for an RPG, but it might as well be a form.
In the original sheet
I notice that all the text is in capital letters.
At first I thought it was in small-caps, but it ...
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How to identify fantasy fonts
I can clearly identify wacky fonts like this one:
to be of the "fantasy" type, but some fonts look almost like regular serif or sans serif fonts only with some strange things going on. As an ...
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Help me find a font that looks something like this…
Ok, this is a horrible drawing I know but looking for font recommendations that might get me close. Basically I am looking for a font that uses 3 stripes to create connecting letters. The letters in ...
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Free, downloadable Helvetica small caps? Well, then, how about Arial or even Tahoma?
I'm looking for Arial non-fake small-caps. Free, downloadable, and TrueType or OpenType.
A free Helvetica would be great but I don't know that Mono ever made small caps for this typeface. I will also ...
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Is there a font face in which all glyphs are identical?
As strange as it seems, I am looking for a font in which all characters look exactly the same.
The goal is to obfuscate the text of passwords generated on http://enlargeyourpassword.com to the casual ...
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Can I manage the fonts that appear on Illustrator's Type drop down
On mac, I have many more fonts on my computer than I use daily. Is there a way to control which ones appear on Illustrator etc.'s menus?
I see that I can use Font Book to 'disable' the fonts. Is that ...
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Do a lot of freelance designers buy fonts?
A lot of the fonts I see are pretty darn expensive, of course you can find some awesome ones for free, but do freelance designers usually buy fonts? Or is buying fonts a practice reserved mostly for ...
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Replacing a font in many illustrator files
I have several hundred Illustrator files that are formatted similarly, and for legal reasons I need to replace a font in all of them. Even with the 'Find font' tool, that's a hell of a lot of fonts to ...
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Establishing the real copyright owner of a font
An increasing collection of fonts are being released for free, but the majority of fonts require a license. For any given font, it's possible to find many versions online, both legal and not. There ...
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Font or technique needed to recreate newspaper article from 1873
I work for an animal shelter that traces its history back to 1873. With the help of the local library, my colleagues and I were able to find the original newspaper article that discussed the initial ...
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Creating a font for a new language
Suppose somebody develops a new language, with totally new characters.
And a font for the same has to be created.
How does one do that?
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What makes a font a “gothic” font?
This seems like simple question... but I cannot track down any useful answers.
It's easy to find lots of fonts with "gothic" in their names. But what makes a font a "gothic" font?
