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What are the good and free alternative to Helvetica when use as web font? [duplicate]
Sans-serif typeface is usually in web, so what are the free/open/cross-platform choices that can replace Helvetica?
By replacing Helvetica I mean are there any font which is better than Helvetica for ...
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What's a good replacement font for ITC Avant Garde Std?
I got a psd comp for a website and the titles are in ITC Avant Garde Std. What's a good replacement font? It should be available for the web, either free or on TypeKit.
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What license do I need for a font, which is used as a base for commercial icon font?
What licensing is appropriate for a font to be used as a base for an icon font?
So basically I need to use the UNICODE table of that font to include custom icons and sell that font.
Most of the ...
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Need name for font used for the Office 2013 Icons
I need to create a logo design similar to the icons for Office 2013:
Can anyone help me with font name as I am not able to find it
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What is the effect of ligatures in web, regarding SEO
All designers love ligatures but vanilla web typography just sucks. I heard of smartypants that solves many of thoses issues, bringing sexy quotes, gorgeous ampersands and all. It's just perfect, ...
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Advice about fallback font stacks for Proxima Nova and Adobe Garamond Pro
Can anyone suggest a good stack of fallback fonts for Adobe Garamond Pro (serif) and Proxima Nova (sans-serif)?
The obvious choices are of course:
"Garamond Pro","Hoefler Text","Times New ...
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How can I make these links more obvious to click on?
Currently working on a redesign for a dental laboratory.
While testing the home page with a user, they never clicked on the links in the subnavigation. They clicked on the larger buttons in the links ...
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What is a quick and concise way to explain online font licensing to a customer?
Customers are usually proud of their (offline) identities. As webdesigner, I regularly find myself having to explain that I can't legally use their licensed font in their webdesign. When I do, it ...
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Instructions to give a print designer looking to use non-system fonts for websites
So we often run into print designers who choose all these crazy fonts that don't look good for the web.
As a backend web programmer, what do I tell print designers to help them select non-system ...
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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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Free for commercial font like windows metro
I need a "free for commercial use" font that looks like the font used in Windows Metro.
It will be used for display on website, both titles and text. With bold and 'slim' version.
Do you know of ...
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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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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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Fontsquirrel and webfont conversion
I've been trying to convert the font M+ 2p with fontsquirrel, and I have searched their website about the converter's limitations, but, no matter what I do, it seems their converter hangs on 0% ...
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How to design a websites using thin fonts that will look good in a web browser?
I recently quite repetitively encounter the same problem - the fonts in photoshop don't look even close to the fonts embedded onto the websites.
Obviously - it's mostly about external, 3rd party ...
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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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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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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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Do you have a “formula” for the webfont vs graphic type threshold?
Disclaimer:
I realize there is not a perfect "formula" for this question. I'm looking for your experiential working practices. If you don't have any, I won't hold it against you.
Over the last ...
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Does Firefox support .ttc fonts? [closed]
I have the following css:
@font-face {
font-family: 'font name';
src: url('../font/fontname.ttc');
}
In Chrome it is working but in the firefox the font style doesn't apply, font get too bold not ...
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Can anyone suggest an alternative to Copperplate Gothic for web use?
Designer sent comps for a site using copperplate, I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good alternative that exists either on google fonts or as a font squirrel kit (preferably the former).
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Free font similar to Viga with Polish characters?
I'm looking for a font similar to Viga with Polish characters (Latin), preferably one from Google Web Fonts.
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How do I use a custom font in an SVG image on my site?
I created a custom Facebook icon using Inkscape and saved it as an svg. It uses the same font as the title of my page, which uses the font "ubuntutitling-bold-webfont", which I have referenced as a ...
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Extract glyphs and make a new font
I have a web font that i'm using but I only need 0123456789. Is there a way to extract glyphs from that font and generate a new font?
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How to work out font-size setting by counting pixels?
I have an image of a proposed website.
How do I work out what px font-size value to set text to by counting pixels?
E.g. I have font-size: 14px, (in Arial) but counting from the top of an "L" and ...
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How good is the fonts.com webfont solution compared to the current @font-face standard?
I guess the title says it all. I've been successfully working with @font-face (with near-perfect cross-browser support, if you use all the hacks).
However, a client really wants to use Helvetica, and ...
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What fonts are similar to Candara, but available on Google Docs?
I've got several documents using Candara that I'd like to shift from Microsoft Word to Google Docs for collaboration; which font is going to be the closest match when using Google?
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Can FontLab edit and output a webfont without losing data?
A font vendor who shall remain nameless sold me a webfont under the premise that all modern browsers would support switching the old style figures to lining figures without any trouble. Well, by "all ...
