Questions tagged [fonts]
Questions about matching fonts, using fonts together, manipulating fonts, font selection and font purchase and usage rights. Please use a more specific tag if available.
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In print, what's a good serifed display typeface (with these criteria) to pair with body text in Times?
What typeface would work well for display text, paired with body text in Times?
The criteria are that it should be
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with similar contrast to Times itself, certainly no greater contrast;
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GNC 255 display font
What's the font used on the display of the Garmin GNC 255 ?
(image taken from the user manual for the GNC 255)
I tried WhatTheFont already, but none of the fonts it showed really matched.
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Problems with uploading to font forge from illustrator
I’m relatively new in the font business so I guess please try to keep it fairly simple. I just finished designing my font in illustrator and whenever I go to export it as SVG and then upload it into ...
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"Non-Intentional Lifeform" logo font identification
I'm trying to identify a font used by a short lived Australian metal band back in the '90s for their logo, as below. They had a 1996 EP and 1997 LP on Roadrunner before disbanding - both used the same ...
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Suggestions for Widening Lowercase 'i', 'j', and 'l' in a Children's Font?
I am currently using a sans serif variable-width font in software I've developed to help teach kids to read.
The font is fairly similar to children's handwriting, so it works great for my readers. ...
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Anchor points were lost while copying and pasting glyphs from one TTF file to another using Font Forge
I am copying the glyph from a ttf file of the same emsize 1024 to another ttf file. I get an Anchor lost popup saying that at least one anchor point is lost while copying the glyph. How do I fix this? ...
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How can I fix the height difference between letters in a custom ttf that is rendered in HTML?
I am trying to create a custom ttf file using font forge. The purpose of building a single custom ttf file is to use all alpha-numeric characters (a-zA-Z0-9) of the 3 fonts as 1 font file. . The fonts ...
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Is there a way to create a font where only part of it is recolorable?
Basically, if you highlighted it and changed the color to, say, red, only parts of glyphs would turn red - the rest would stay black no matter what.
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Graphic Design software with Variable Font support
Which Graphic Design software have you found to work well with Variable Fonts?
How are you making use of Variable Fonts for projects, that involve software, that isn't compatible, yet?
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Where can I get Fonts for Adobe InDesign CS5 software? I do not have Creative Cloud
I have an older mac pro 1.1 and Adobe Indesign CS5 software that is about 10 years old. I would like to add some new fonts to use. Is that possible? & where would I purchase them? I do not have ...
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Find Illustrator files with missing fonts without opening the files
I have over 2000 adobe illustrator files and some of them have missing fonts (i don't know which). Is it possible to search through the files without opening them in adobe illustrator to determine ...
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what is the name of the font used by Walt Disney in their advertisement "Magic is here"?
The graphic designer im working with asked me to choose a Font. i really like the font used in this advertisement. however im not able to detect the font used in this video. can anyone help me with ...
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Is my logo kerned correctly?
Is my logo kerned correctly? Especially looking for the areas around the "A" and the "S".
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What font is used in this image
What font is used in the following image (the target font):
I used multiple online tools, such as https://www.whatfontis.com and https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont, to find the matching font, ...
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Can this font style naming be fixed?
I am relatively new to "Fonts".
I assumed this was a Google thing.
I think the idea of these font libraries is great!
A naming convention like this that crosses the boundaries into other ...
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How to describe different styles of pixel fonts?
I came across this problem while trying to search through Google Fonts for an alternative to the Press Start 2P font (reason being that it is not well supported elsewhere).
I know that even though the ...
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Why do some fonts alternate the vertical placement of numerical glyphs in relation to baseline?
I recently discovered a curious feature in a font called Raleway. Some of the glyphs for decimal digits ( 0 - 9 ) are placed above or below the baseline. Numbers displayed using the font seem to be ...
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On Recommended Textwidth, Textheight, and Odd/Evenside Margin Values for 5.5" x 8.25" Book
I plan on self-publishing a book with dimensions Width=5.5'' and Height=8.25" and with a Cardo font.
Can anyone suggest, generally speaking, numerical values for (1) textheight (inches), (2) ...
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Inkscape font size: what is its meaning / how is it related to text height?
I had always known that font size is related to height of the text: What is Font Size?
A font is often measured in pt (points). Points dictate the height of the lettering.
(In my mind, I always it ...
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A complete cyrillic opentype font
I am currently looking for a cyrillic font (for russian typewritting). It must be an opentype font usable with lualatex and fontspec, and must be complete : roman, italic, bold, small caps, superiors ...
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How do I make the letters seem as a part of the entire type set?
Tldr; Help me identify elements/qualities in "I" that makes it seem belonged to this set
Greetings
I am a design enthusiast, and to understand typefaces, I started 36 days of type.
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How can I obtain/generate a pair of fonts differring only on ascenders?
I'm doing some QA work on the LibreOffice free software office suite w.r.t. vertical alignment behavior in some scenarios.
To illustrate a point, and perhaps to test a theory, I need to use two fonts ...
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Does there exist a mono-spaced (fixed-width) font for all Unicode characters?
Does there exist a font for all 149,186 characters in Unicode such that every character, or symbol, in the font has the same width as any other character?
It is very difficult to write python scripts ...
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Help needed to Identify Japanese font
It's from a Casio electronic toy from the mid-nineties and I've been searching everywhere without any luck. If anyone has an idea of the name or why I can find it I'd be very grateful! Thanks in ...
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Connecting horizontal curve for a font like in Times New Roman font character "O"
I am learning to create fonts in Kannada language. I made a image in "fontstruct" and exported to further modify in inkscape, as fontstruct does not support Kannada language.
I need to ...
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Inkscape Issues Importing PDF Text: Case and 'fi' Rendering
I am trying to make minor edits to an existing PDF that I have imported into Inkscape, but am having issues with the rendering of the text from the PDF.
Letters that are combined in certain, such as '...
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Truly-handrwriting monospaced font
Is there a truly-handrwriting monospaced font? Does it exist at all?
I know there is a Marista by Zephyris, but it is not what I really looking for. It still looks as a font produced by a typewriter, ...
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Why do some fonts have em dash not equal to 1 em and an en dash not equal to 1 en
As their names imply, an em dash should be 1 em wide and an en dash should be 1 en wide (1/2 em). But a lot of typefaces have the em dash not exactly 1 em wide and the en dash not exactly 1/2 wide. ...
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How to convert a vector TTF font to a bitmap FON file?
I've been at this for nearly two days now, so it's time to ask for help.
Following the instructions on this Stack Overflow answer, How to convert TTF to FNT with Fontforge, I've tried saving my font ...
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How to put multiple Katakana or Latin letters in a single CJK block?
In the Unicode Standard document, v. 13, it says on p. 877 (bold-facing mine):
Squared Katakana words are Katakana-spelled words that fill a single display cell (em-square) when intermixed with CJK ...
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Typeface with curved vertical strokes?
Does anyone know of a typeface where the Capital "B" has a concave curve to the stem? (Where the vertical line dips curves inward to the right.)
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How to extend descent on font in FontForge so exported SVG contains all paths?
Following this, I run this command to generate the SVGs:
fontforge -lang=ff -c 'Open($1); SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export("svg"); endloop;' font.ttf
My font is this. When I open ...
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Why does an Arabic font have multiple glyphs of the same shape but slightly different heights?
Here is a Kufi-like Arabic script font, and here are most of the main glyphs:
Notice how some of them are extremely similar, only differing by height. Also you'll note that some are similar but ...
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Can I use Times New Roman in my web app without license?
I want to use Times New Roman (which has proprietary license) as main font of my commercial product (web app).
As it is pre-installed on most of the devices, I have no need to supply font files, so ...
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Open and convert woff variable font to ttf
I have a variable font in type woff and I want open all weights in fontforge (or other software) to convert every weight to the single ttf font.
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I want to use a font's "bold" variant as "regular" (for example in Keynote), how can I do this?
I found a really lovely font that I want to use. It has several variants:
Sadly, the "Bold" options feels much too heavy for me, I'd rather use "Semibold" instead. And while I can ...
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How to use an Adobe fresco vector image save in PNG format and uploaded through flutterflow's custom icon button
When designing apps using the flutterflow program there is a section on the home page of the app project you are building that is able to upload images as a truetype font file , otherwise if I instead ...
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Which font is used in this Wordpress image?
I updated WordPress to the latest version and this image (the website https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/dolphy) and I'd like to know what font is this. It seems Inter but I am not sure.
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Help identify a fixed witdth font
I am interested by the font and haven't seem any fonts similar. http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont gave me some weird clues that didn't help. Can someone help identify the font?
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How do I use the offset path function to create ligatures with even white space where they overlap like this? [duplicate]
The tutorial I saw has he guy use the expand feature then use the offset path feature and then he uses a tool to remove the expanded areas and create this effect. I have been trying to figure it our ...
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What font collections can cover the entire unicode glyph spectrum?
I am using google noto fonts, falling back to system fonts (on a Mac), but it doesn't seem to have many of the "edge-case" characters in each Unicode block (like some Arabic extended ...
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Does anyone know the name of this Japanese font? [closed]
[![Adult Swim AcTN Logo from 2002-2012][The font is from Japan, it's from Cartoon Networks Adult Swim block, I've looked everywhere, but i could not find it. If someone could help me identify the ...
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Font identification of this curvy serif
does anyone know what typeface/font this is? I have tried whatthefont and whatfontis but no luck.
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Missing font on Adobe Illustrator CS5 and macOS High Sierra
I have an old computer running macOS High Sierra (the latest available for that hardware) and Adobe Illustrator CS5 (yes, it's possible). I still use it because I purchased the software and this way I ...
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80s typography book with red apple on the cover
I am looking for a book from the eighties (or potentially older), a sort of font catalog. It was white, large format (approximately A4), and had a picture of a red apple on the cover.
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What is the font used in japanese postage stamps for the word NIPPON (日本郵便)?
Japan postage stamps all use the same font for the word NIPPON (日本郵便). I could not find a font that matches the second symbol on stamps. Tried the main Identification sites: WhatTheFont
Identifont
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Hebrew typeface that appears to be a Latin typeface at first glance
The famous font Sefard is a “faux Hebrew” Latin font: It looks like Hebrew script at first glance on account of incorporating typical Hebrew typographic elements, but actually it is a Latin-script ...
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Is there a monospaced typeface with kerning?
The problem with monospaced typefaces is that all glyphs have to have the same width, but different characters need various amount of space. For example, fitting ‘m’ to the same width as ‘i’ results ...
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Looking for info on obscure font used in video game
I'm currently looking for the font used in the "Nocturne" of the SMT Nocturne logo and someone told me to look into a font called Mael by Utopia fonts (aka Dale Harris, formerly known as: ...
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Help me identifying this japanese font
Can someone help me identifying this japanese font?
I have tried font identification site like likefont but still haven't found the exact same one.
This image is from a T-Shirt image, and this is the ...
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