Questions that include the tag "text" might refer to text layouting, styling and/or management in graphic software.
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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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Which is easier on the eyes: dark-on-light or light-on-dark?
While working on my latest website, I started actually wondering if what I learned in grade school was true. I've been taught that programs like Word default to use a white background with black text ...
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What are the best practices and techniques to fix rags?
What would be the best practices to fix the rags on a left aligned text for print.
Besides breaking lines and hyphenations, should you use tracking, and if so how much.
Also, how would you judged a ...
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Convert text to paragraph text in Illustrator
Is there any quick way to convert text created at point (automatically resizable boundaries) to a area (paragraph) text (with fixed boundaries) in Illustrator CS3?
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Readability and appeal of justified text
If I write a document that I have to hand in to somebody (a report, summary, draft, whatever) I usually justify the text because it seems more appealing (at least to me) if it all finishes at the same ...
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Recommended column width for text reading, digital vs printed
Coming form a digital background, I have often read different kinds of suggestions (for example 35-50 ems) for how wide a column of body text should be to still maintain a good readability.
Is there ...
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How do I break apart text in Photoshop?
I have a word in a text layer in photoshop. I want each character to be on a separate layer, how can I do that?
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How long of a name do you budget for in a template?
I'm designing a name overlay for a series of videos and I'm curious how long of a name I should budget for without knowing what ones might come my way.
As it's for a video it should be reasonably ...
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How to construct “lowercase digits” (i.e. text figures)?
Is there an accepted way to adjust font glyphs in order to simulate text figures?
Background
Text figures are "lowercase" digits. You normally use lowercase digits where you also use lowercase ...
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Is it good practice to add additional space before a punctuation mark after emphazised text?
Is there a typographic convention or practice about placing punctuation marks after emphazised text?
I ran across this example on a website today that adds an additional space after emphazised text ...
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Text effect on any background color
I want to display a text over a video. However, the video may include any color from white to black. What is the best text effect (color/stroke/shadow/glow ... etc) that can be applied on the text so ...
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Is there a way to tell InDesign not to break words in a Paragraph? (hyphenation)
I am pasting this text into a text box in InDesign, I have a Paragraph Style set for that box and I am using "Justify with last line aligned left" (you can see in the screenshot, the red circles)
The ...
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Is using a portion of quoted text on a poster a derivative work?
I made a poster, for my own use, that uses a few lines from a well known song and I liked the outcome so much I'd like to share it. However, I'm not sure if taking part of a copyrighted material and ...
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advise on “copying” text effect from existing logo
I'm trying to copy the text effect on an existing logo to no avail.
I have been using Illustrator to work on the logo but cannot seem to get it workout the way I want.
It's not that I want to copy ...
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Is there a single text color that is acceptable on both dark and light background?
Is there a single text color that, when used on either dark or light background, produces a readable (or at least tolerable) output?
If it makes it easier, constraints can be put on the hue, ...
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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 design sites with dark colours (red and black palette)
The graphic designer for my club created a red and black logo (major color is black highlighted with red). Everyone thinks it looks great, and I agree. The issue lies with designing the site. We've ...
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Using Photoshop - how do I make text “wrap” (break) around an image like in the images linked in this post?
Example 1:
Example 2:
Is there a simple and semi-automatic way to do this? I know I can do it manually, but there ought to be some way to make the text automatically break when it reaches some ...
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Adobe Illustrator - Text Extrude Tips
I'm bit of a newbie in Adobe Illustrator and have been learning the application by trying to follow some tutorials and recreating some cool stuff I come across on the web.
That being said, I'm ...
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How to choose embossing color?
I'm using css to emboss text with this:
text-shadow: black 1px 1px 5px;
My site uses different font colors and background colors. I was wondering how I can choose the "best" embossing color based ...
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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 to show background texture through text placed on background in Photoshop?
Say you have an image of a wall or an old, creased piece of paper and you want to add text on that background. How can you make the texture of the background come through the new text in Photoshop so ...
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What is the difference between “wrapped” text and “constrained” text?
This question is based on the comments on this answer to another question.
What is the technical difference between text that is "wrapped around" a shape as opposed to text that is "constrained by" a ...
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Editable two side text
Here's what I want to achieve:
pretty simple right? BUT, I'd like the text to remain editable in a simple manner, that is:
Editable text (no outlined font);
Only one line of text (any change has ...
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Text wrapping fill-last-line-first
I have a peculiar design for a web page that I have to implement from an already made design, and some of the text wrappings are filled bottom-up (in my case it's for bottom-left aligned thin text ...
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Adobe Indesign automatic deletion of overflow text
Indesign CS5.5 (v7.5.2)
Is there an automated method to simply remove all overset text in a text frame?
I don't want it hidden by a smaller frame. I want it gone.
I spend so much time simply ...
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Reduce image size in photoshop without compromising text readability
I found a similar thread that gave some great pointers, but still doesn't solve my issue.
My boss asked me to create a corporate presentation, and I had the unfortunate idea of doing it all in ...
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Highlighting text in Adobe InDesign
I want to have inline code snippets in my InDesign document. Similar to how StackExchange does it, like this. So the gray background is perfect. Basically I just want to highlight certain text. ...
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Creating flexible text boxes in Illustrator
I'm going to be making images that include hundreds of lines of text of varying lengths, each of which will have the same "background", with the exception of the length of the background, which will ...
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Gimp: export XCF as a list of commands?
It took me a lot of time to create a graphic in GIMP, and now I need to make some variations of the same graphic that actually only require the change of the FG color twice in the process.
The GIMP ...
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Improper kerning in iOS app, using Helvetica Neue
I think I'm posting this question in the proper SE site, as it pertains more to designers than programmers.
I developed an iOS app with a programmer (I'm the artist), and we're using Helvetica Neue.
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How to write distinctive letters?
This is more of a handwritten or drawing style question. Lets say I draw letters. How do I make letters and numbers distinct? For example the number 0 has a line through it as well as 7. If I looked ...
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Disappearing InDesign Text
I am working on a page someone else created as a master page, and want to add a text box to the page. I created the box and placed my text in it, but the text is not visible. If I drag the text box ...
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Illustrator Text Bounding Box Resize
I have an illustrator file, and I need to resize the bounding box of all the components, without changing the size of the text. Is there an easy way to do this, or do I have to go and rewrite all of ...
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How do I create a professional quality desktop icon?
I would like to create a professional quality icon. Currently, I have created an icon with IcoFX. The icon looks great -- when it is scaled at the right size. When it gets scaled to the wrong size, ...
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How to accomodate different text lengths in translated web content?
I was recently working on a website design and I naturally based my work on the content supplied by my customer.
I knew from the beginning that the site will be accessible in different languages but ...
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Formating Text added via Data Sets in Photoshop
I've been using Data Sets to fill alot of my graphics with Text. However I want the text to have different formatting styles (New Lines, Tabs, Bold and Italic to be specific) with certain words. For ...
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Flash CS6 - how to replace a playing card index (i.e. how to type into same bounding box)?
I've purchased a stock set of playing cards in .ai format and have successfully imported it into a Flash CS6 file.
However I have the problem, that the cards have english indices: J, Q, K, A - while ...
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GIMP: “Joined” arabic text
I'm trying to create an image which contains Arab text.
This is the (HTML entities for the) text: العربية
Raw, it is العربية
When I paste the text into ...
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Using an invert mask on one single layer
I'm stuck with this little thing, which should be extremely easy but I simply cannot achieve it the way I want it.
Working with Photoshop CS5, I have a PSD with several layers, most of them being ...
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How do I achieve this gradient effect on type in Illustrator?
I'm trying to achieve the gradient effect shown in the below examples on each letter of the type I'm using in a logo design. I don't really know what this style is called, so I can't effectively look ...
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Why is text on microsoft site not smooth in non-IE browser?
The following link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/buy.aspx and possibly all other links in MS site does not render text smoothly in Chrome and Firefox. Why so?
IE7:
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What is this outline around text and how do I get rid of it? (Adobe Illustrator CS5)
I'm a beginner in Illustrator so please excuse me if this is a very noob question.
There's this thin orange-ish outline around the text. I'm 100% certain it is not a stroke. I'm guessing it is ...
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how do I fix this blur issue on my text logo in photoshop
I have a logo in PS but I'm having a small issue.
I see this small blur at the bottom of my logo text which i cant seem to get rid of.
Zoomed in:
can you see that small blur at the bottom of ...
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Save as PDF creates ghost images of my text behind the text
I'm an Illustrator Novice (I'm more experienced with Photoshop) but I need to create a vector version of our company logo.
The logo looks fine in Illustrator and if I export a png version it looks ...
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Will text laid out on an image in Photoshop, when printed look pixelated? Or sharp enough?
The title really says it all. I want to design a poster for my home. But here's my question, if I lay out the text in photoshop, save it and then print it - will the text look pixelated? Or sharp ...
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Why do most comics have uppercase text in their balloons?
While it's well known in design that lowercase is easier to read.
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How to create a Bitmap Font, with Photoshop?
I want to create a custom font to use for a game, and it must be a Bitmap font. So the spacing etc between characters must be equal. Now I don't know much of Bitmap fonts.
The font itself will be a ...
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Change Background Color of Text Box in Illustrator CS5
Any way to change the background color of a text box without all the workarounds such as placing another shape behind the text.
I need to have a textbox filled with color of 249, 249, 249 and a ...
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Why do html/css texts appear so “pixelated” compared to texts from photoshop or gimp?
Here is an example to explain what I mean:
Text created in Gimp:
Text created in html/CSS code:
font: 60px "anchor-web-1","anchor-web-2", 'Impact', sans-serif;
font-weight: 900;
Why do ...
