Everything you ever wanted to know about typefaces but were afraid to ask.
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Segoe UI font licensing
I am planning to use the font:
Segoe UI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe
(Included with Vista/Windows 7 and Office products)
In my new businesses logo and website. I've tried my hardest to find ...
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How to create SVG for good typography on the web without buying Illustrator?
I have a web font which I would like to display using SVG instead of in HTML. The reason for this is that I want to display large typographically beautiful text, and I don't see any way of getting the ...
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Can anyone name this font?
WhatTheFont and Identifont have been unable to recognize it. I'm sure it's something really obvious. Thanks!
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Smallest font size for small print?
I'm setting up a document and the document has some * and footnotes. The document itself is A6 size, which is pretty small (postcard size). What font-size should I assign to the smallprint footnotes?
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Fonts with ticks and crosses
Have you come across a font with good ticks and crosses?
The reason I ask is that I'm making a sprite for the uniform.js form plugin (http://uniformjs.com/) and they use Lucida Grande for their ...
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Simplifying an initial before tracing it
In order to trace an initial to make a font, I need to simplify the original picture as much as possible. I've already vectorized it, but I wonder how I could clean it up a bit more to make it easier ...
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Which font for a tactics video game?
I want to create various titles to use on books, web site and packaging in general for a video game that is of the squad based tactic type and in the Tron like, uncluttered dark and light blue style.
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Can't see all the font styles installed in Windows 7
I've installed a font that has different styles (bold, italics, thin, medium, ultra and so on...), but I can't use them all because I can't see them in Photoshop. The fonts are installed, but seem in ...
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How to scale a Character without changing its width?
I have to recreate a logo which has been made many years ago and all that is left is a tiny rasterized picture. I want to make a vector file in Illustrator. The logo contains text in, lets say 100 pt, ...
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Could you please help me out identifying the typeface (font)?
Could you please help me out identifying the typeface (font) used to design the logo presented below?
What about ornaments/emblems? Is there any font I could use to design similar style ...
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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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What is the Font used in Amazon Kindle Android?
What is the font used by Amazon Kindle in the image below?
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Free/libre equivalent fonts for a cover
I'm working on a book cover for a translated book. I want to keep the style of the original book, but I'd also like to use free/libre fonts if possible.
Using the original fonts, this is what it ...
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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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What is the best font for use in legal contracts?
What are the best font for legal contracts, and why?
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Creating a list of favourite fonts in Photoshop
I do a lot of design work, and I'm constantly using different fonts. Therefore I've built up a list of over 200 fonts in my directory.
Is there a way in Photoshop of creating a favourites short list ...
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Can URW Garamond N°8 be used in a printed book?
Is it possible to use the URW Garamond N°8 in a printed book (for sale)?
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What is the best way to obtain physical letterpress metal fonts?
(Note: This is an odd question to be asking on a website in this day and age. But it is something that those with a historical bent might care about, and I'm not sure where else to ask!)
As a ...
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Suitable font for Japanese-language text in comic?
What's a suitable font for Japanese-language text in a western-style comic?
Comic sans serif doesn't seem to handle Japanese. (I deliberately chose it in part to be contrarian, and in part because it ...
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PDF font embedding; any utility to batch test font collection?
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Is there a utility that will batch test fonts to check which CAN and/or CANNOT be embedded in an Export to PDF?
Why?
I want to organise a (too large) collection of fonts so that when ...
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What can I do with AFM - Adobe font metrics file?
I received zip containing font in .afm format. Is this some sort of source-code of a font that can be converted TTF/OTF or so?
How can I actually read and use this file?
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What's a good resource on learning Opentype?
So in my spare time I like working with fonts. During the creation process it's hard to remember all the possible features offered by Opentype at one time. What's a good resource (maybe a primer of ...
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Typography combination for Georgia
I want to use Serif font Georgia. Which Sans Serif fonts go well with Georgia. I am using Impact for my Logo.
Can some one help in identifying a good Sans Serif font that can go well with Headers ...
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Can I use OS fonts in logos?
When I design a logo, can I use a font that was included in my OS? That I downloaded for free? I'm perhaps less concerned with wordmarks than with other types of logos.
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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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When I buy a font, is there any limitations, except I cannot give it away to anyone?
Is it correct that, once bought a font, I'm not limited in time or number of projects I can use the font in?
Say, I own Helvetica. Does it mean that now I have a right to use it in any of my projects?
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EAN-13 Barcode Font
I've googled for over 30 mins now, I can't find a free barcode font for EAN-13. Anyone know of any? fontsquirrel have none, Dafont have a few, But none of them are EAN-13 (as far as I know).
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Does anyone know what font this is?
Tried searching on MyFont's 'What the font' but no luck.
Hoping it's a free font.
Thanks.
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I want to learn how to select appropriate colors and fonts for a new site
I'm developing a new site, and although I know enough basic programming to make the site, I'm not artistically inclined enough to make the site look nice. So, I was hoping I could get some suggestions ...
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Can anyone recongize the font from showoff.io
I like the font (or style of font) used for the logo of the site:
https://showoff.io/.
Is there a place to find such fonts?
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Can anyone recognize this font (or know the similar one) ?
I would like to know the name of this font and where can I get it. Can anyone recognize it or advise me the similar one ? I found this just as an image preview in one document.
Thanks a lot
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Is there a way to sort fonts inside Photoshop, as “serif,” “sans-serif,” “script,” etc.?
In my years as a graphic designer (and now web designer and developer,) I've acquired a great number of fonts; inasmuch as backing them up was a responsibility paramount attendant upon formatting my ...
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Font suggestions for a church site [closed]
Do you guys have any font suggestions for a ministry website (for headlines, logo etc.) ?
So far I found this one:
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Should one mix serif and sans-serif type fonts on the same Webpage, for plain text elements (not headlines)?
There are "rules" that sans-serif look better for headlines, serif for plain text.
Are there "rules" that specify what to do if I'd wanted to mix serif and sans-serif on plain text elements (not ...
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What is a good font for a CV?
A recent article in Nature discusses the effect of typeface on credibility, and points to another study suggesting that
resumes displayed in a high
appropriate typeface (Corbel),
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Headlines font choices for Graphics and/or CSS Embedding?
I'm trying to identify the attached image font so we can use for artwork and web embedding.
Any other similar or better fonts for headlines will be great as well that could be used for embedding or ...
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How to create a new glyph = letter + ogonek in InDesign
I've got a font, which doesn't have polish diacritic chars which I need. I'm trying to construct them, by merging two glyphs - a letter and ogonek or acute accent, which are provided by my font.
I ...
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Does x-height really matter when choosing fonts in using for readability and legibility?
If using a typeface with a low x-height at a large point size, wouldn't it has the same result as using a medium or large x-height smaller point size. So does it means x-height only useful when ...
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Font (anti)aliasing in Photoshop
I'm using Photoshop for designing websites and whenever I compare a photoshop design with the live browser preview the fonts appear to be rendered differently.
Basically any anti-aliasing method I ...
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How can I make this text (slightly) more 'Chinese-looking'?
How can I make this text (slightly) more Chinese looking?
(examples will be appreciated if possible).
(I think the purpose of doing this is obvious).
EDIT: This is option two:
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Is it possible to render readable screen type at a size of 3px?
I just created an icon in fireworks with a size 17*15 (which is small) and when i try to label the icon the minimum size of the text is 8 pixels which is very big . I want to have a label with text ...
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What font is used in the Best Western Hotels logo?
I'm interested in making a joke t-shirt for a friend that changes the text on the "Best Western" logo. Does anyone know what font that is (pictured below), or what font most closely simulates it?
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Thick “Initial” font, with a particular “S”
I want wondering if anyone knew of any commercial-free fonts where the "S" doesn't curve down, but instead the ends go horizontally? I'm having a hard time searching for something with that kind of ...
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Sans-Serif font suggestions for small (11pt) , bold, uppercase heading text
I need some suggestions for a font to use as a Heading/Label. I'm looking at small 11pt text, which is all uppercase and bold.
I'm writing my app using WPF on Windows XP and none of the fonts I've ...
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Which font should I use when I do not have a lot of real estate , and anti-aliasing turned off
I have been developing a lot of Windows 7 gadgets lately.
The max suggested height and width are 400x400 but ideally 300x400 is the area I develop a gadget in.
Now a lot of rendering is being done in ...
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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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Guidelines for logos using multiple typefaces
I was wondering there were any helpful guidelines and/or tips for designing logos with multiple fonts. It seems to be a dangerous area to enter into, but can lead to some great results.
Often times ...
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What font does bitly use in their logo?
What font is used in this logo?
Editor's note: while this was their logo at the time this question was written, bit.ly have since adopted a new logo.
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How can I automatically determine multiple fonts used in a single image?
I am looking for a tool that I can give it an image filled with different fonts and it will give me their font type.
I know of this tool:
http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Thing with this ...
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Popular serif and sans-serif browser compatible font combinations?
I was curious as to which combinations of serif and sans-serif fonts are preferable to use that are compatible with most browsers.
While I am aware that with the introduction of CSS3 importing ...
