Everything you ever wanted to know about typefaces but were afraid to ask.
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What font is used in the first slide of this slidedeck?
Really would love to know the name of this font, and where to get it, or a similar free equivalent?
First slide:
Here is all presentation.
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Replacement for Hoefler Text
I have a resume that was designed on a Mac, which came with Hoefler Text pre-installed. I no longer have access to the Mac, but I need to edit the resume (done in Open Office Draw). It's not really an ...
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Noteworthy: Web Font and Its (Possible) Alternatives
I am trying to use Noteworthy font (available on Mac OS X 10.7.2) for my web application. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it on MyFonts nor typekit; I mentioned these two sites just because so far they ...
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How do I embed Google Web Fonts into an SVG?
I'm new to SVGs, and just made my first decent graphic in Illustrator. I've embedded it into a page (using the ) with the GWF script for the Ubuntu font in the tag, but as it turns out, the Ubuntu ...
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Where can I find a similar font?
I created this (partial) logo at least 3 years ago. I'm a programmer, not a designer, so when the site was complete all the image files were handed off to an actual designer. The designer has left the ...
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Where could I find free PostScript Type 1 font?
Where could I find free PostScript Type 1 fonts? Nowadays, the font are either TrueType or OpenType format. There are few Type 1 fonts.
Thanks.
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What font can I use for a Japanese book? [duplicate]
(I already asked the question on graphicdesign but people redirected me here. I guess there are people with that kind of expertise here.)
I have a PDF book to be translated in Japanese, and what ...
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What font can I use for a Japanese book?
I have a PDF book to be translated in Japanese, and what wondering which fonts to use. My main languages are French and English and I have no experience with asian fonts. I would not be able to say ...
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What font might this be?
I'm designing a website for a client for which I need to redesign his (same) logo based up on the scanned letter head. I'm not that good at identifying fonts. Can anyone kindly tell what might this ...
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Whatever happened to opensourceampersand.com
It's gone, which is a real shame, I should've made more use of it. Where's the best place to go to get free ampersands that I can then embed using @font-face in CSS?
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Tools for comparing logo fonts
I'm starting with a logo design and want to know what tools are available that an quickly compare different fonts. Take the word "Google" for example how can i quickly compare how it appears using ...
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How to fix buggy anti-alias font in Photoshop CS5?
Look this pic:
The font looks wrong, it shouldn't have black background with alpha letters, i had no idea what happened to this font system.
The font is Arial, the size is 80 pixel and the ...
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Getting fonts for design mockups
I'd like to expand my use of fonts in my web designs. I know that there are a variety of services available like Google Web Fonts to include fonts onto my site, but I would also like to be able to use ...
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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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CSS - Using different fonts within a typeface?
After exploring typography more I've learnt the different between a typeface and a font :)
I'd like to know how I can call the fonts 'Arial Black' or 'Arial Narrow' within CSS? The font-family ...
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What is the font in the headings on this site?
I've just run across Lovely Things, and I can't for the life of me figure out what the font is in their headings and navigation links. What is it? I only ask, of course, because it's embedded solely ...
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Which Avenir Next typefaces are most versatile?
Having a limited budget, which 2-3 out of the 24 Avenir Next typefaces are most useful for web design?
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Recommend a good font management software for Windows 7
I am looking for a good Font Mangement Software for Windows 7.
Can you guys please recommend a good professional one, something that has options like:
install/uninstall a font at the touch of a ...
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Good resource for non-Latin character based fonts?
I was wondering if there were any good resources for fonts using non-Latin characters, specifically Japanese or Chinese type (Kanji or any other character-based font).
I know plenty of resources for ...
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Find a good contrast font?
So this isn't a font identification question - instead it's a font contrast question.
I'm not a graphic designer, but I'd like to make my site look nice. I've read the primers on picking fonts that ...
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What Font does the logo of Soundtracker.com Use
Trying to determine which font is used in this logo:
Anyone have a good eye?
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To What Extent Should Overused Fonts Be Avoided?
Conventional wisdom says to avoid overused fonts, because they start to lose their flair, and then your work ceases to stand out from the crowd, or adopts unwanted connotations. But what if an ...
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Font identification, again
Can anyone identify this font in the image?
It's also here :
http://livedemo00.template-help.com/wordpress_34886/
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What font is this in the image?
Sorry for the lame question, but I can't figure out what font is used in image below?
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Problem with using Google fonts - Coda, the font looks not rendered and unreadable
i have a problem with using Google fonts - Coda, the font looks not rendered (without sharp) . I cant understand if its something connected to Windows or Browser type. Im using mac so it looks great. ...
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Should Logotype Be Considered Part of the Heading Hierarchy?
I'm in the process of an identity design for an online magazine and I've come up with what I feel is appropriate logotype, and a heading/body copy pair that I also think work well. But when treating ...
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Help me identify this font or something close to it?
I'm looking for the font 1:30 in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plhgyp0KNQQ:
The Adam Tensta text is in a font that I think is used in the old game Street Fighter, but I'm not sure, and I ...
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Photoshop Fonts Always Italic
I've recently exported an image from Microsoft Expression Design to a PSD format, but when I open the exported PSD & attempt to create a new font layer, any font I choose will be italicized but ...
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Font used as stripe.com logo
I am trying to find out, but I am having a hard time. I would like to know what the font type used to create the logo at http://stripe.com is? Does anyone happen to know?
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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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What does “letterfit” mean?
I started reading The Elements of Typographic Style and found the term "letterfit". I'm unsure as to what it means. It doesn't appear in the glossary of terms of the book. Is it related to kerning?
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What are the various fonts / typefaces used here?
I love kinetic typography, and the latest video by David Guetta, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO9THtRWb2s uses it in an interesting way. Instead of just using text as a 2D element, they've made ...
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How to manually identify a font when the automatic services fail?
A common problem: Designer has spotted a delicious font being used on/offline, but there are no references what is the name of the font. The designer either gets unsatisfactory results from automatic ...
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OSX: Thousands of fonts
How can I access the thousands of font files on my Mac without "installing" them and thereby slowing the machine to a crawl?
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What does the size of the font translate to exactly?
I have a 40 pixel font that I'm trying to translate into custom images. I'm trying to match the size of the image exactly, but I'm having some problems getting exactly the right size. Basically, what ...
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Create a font comparison sheet
Is there an application that will take a string, like my company name, and produce a comparison of that string in many different typefaces?
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How to mimic this text in Gimp?
I found this really cool text, and would like to use the style but for a different word. How can I do it in GIMP or pixlr.com?
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Medieval gothic font with cyrillic characters
There are plenty fonts with latin characters, but I can't found medieval gothic fonts with cyrillic characters.
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Photoshop edit text problem [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I identify what font was used in a Photoshop layer when the font is not installed on my computer?
I have a psd file and i want to edit a text from a particular ...
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Font suggestion(motion/speed/sports)
I am looking for an oblique, slanted font that suggest motion/speed/sports but in a very subtle way.
What I was thinking of is something like any font in italic mode but instead of the text leaning ...
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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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Where to find free, high-quality, letterpress/woodblock type fonts?
I may be asking for too much but...I'm trying to find fonts that look in the style of letterpress and/or woodblock type printing. I'm only a graphic designer in my free time, and am just working on a ...
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which is the best web fonts for HTML Heading tags? [closed]
Can anybody please suggest which is the best commercial OR Free web fonts for HTML heading tags ?
Thanks In Advance.
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Help me identify the font used by the New York MoMA
What font is used in this logo?
Here is logo in the footer of this page.
It's a very basic typeface, but I love how wide and solid it is. Also, similar fonts work too.
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Why do some letters look odd at 100% but not 200%?
I'm looking at a document both in InDesign and, after exporting to PDF, in Acrobat, and the strangest thing is happening to my font; some letters are looking different than they should when shown at ...
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What is the state of cross platform web safe fonts in 2011?
You can see the traditional cross platform system fonts like Arial and these , but in 2011 with Leopard/Lion and Vista/7, surely there are a load more fonts we can use reliably?
Thanks!
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Web safe font for Chinese similar to Trebuchet?
I have created a Flash banner to be used on a site that is localised across Asia-Pacific region, and according to provided brand guidelines I need to use Trebuchet as the base font and theres 3 ...
