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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What Font is being used in this SKITCHS logo?
Can someone please help me identify this font or typeface?
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Font appears in Illustrator but not in InDesign
I am using a font (the lovely Sprat by Ethan Nakache) for a project and cannot get it to work in InDesign – it doesn't show up in the Type menu. It appears and works fine in Illustrator as well as ...
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Looking for a font to imitate dementia / dyslexia
I'm trying to produce an image from the point of view of a person with dementia who can no longer make sense of signage. The feeling is that the forms are very familiar, but don't come together as ...
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How I type Arabic text without error boxes?
I want to use the Arabic text in Photoshop v22.0.1 but it only types in as error boxes. I have tried the Preferences > Type > World-Ready Layout. and Paragraph's World-Ready Layout with Middle ...
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Which classes of font are generally the most readable at a glance?
When I say "classes of font", I'm referring to categories and styles such as geometric, gothic, grotesk, handwriting, humanist, etc. Out of all of these, which would be the most readable - ...
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Need help finding Pokemon Sword logo font
Hello I’m trying to find the font used in the logo for Pokemon Sword. I’ve attempted to find the font using likefont, whatisfont and my font to no avail.
All that I’m sure of is that the logo use a ...
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(Screenshots) What fonts are those?
I have been using this Android program - no longer in the Google store (implying: support discontinued) - and I have noticed it uses (what looks to me like) two distinct types of fonts, respectively, ...
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How to reduce space between text lines?
I set the number in red rectangle to zero, but the space between lines is still large. Is there a way to do more?
The font is Libre Baskerville.
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All superscript (and subscript) font
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I am creating an app with React Native which needs to be able to display super/subscript. For some reason, there is no way of doing this on Android because the View cannot be nested in the ...
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How is this ‘humanist’ font named?
Sorry, I'm not a font expert but I saw on Wikipedia a font I'd really like to use. I'm confused because I saw the name ‘humanist’ at the left but I discovered that it's a family; there isn't such font ...
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How to link variable font axes to characters position?
I need to build an algorithm that will automatically interpolate a variable font in the layout based on the positions of the characters in space. It doesn't matter in which software it will be ...
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May I use Google Fonts for creating a logo with commercial purposes?
I want to create a logo for a contest, the winner will be paid and the winning logo will be the institutional logo of an academic entity, so I need a font which can be used freely or at a cheap cost ...
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Trying to find this typeface or one similar
Can you tell me what this typeface is? Thanks! You can see more of it here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/101146789/POVEMENT
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Is it possible to add new characters to a font?
I've got a font called Lato, and I need to add the characters İ, Ğ, ğ, Ş and ş. How can I do this?
1st photo is the original. 2nd photo is the same font that I upgraded:
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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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Typeface identification: Garamond variant
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I’m trying to identify the precise typeface used in the following document:
Context and current state of my investigations
I know this document was generated using LaTeX; unfortunately I do ...
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Looking alterantive font similar to "Visigoth"
Im looking for an alternative similar to the font Visigoth by Arthur Baker, but with smother and less rough. Similar to the Sonic and the Secret rings in how smoothness.
and the Secret rings logo
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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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Rotate a character from the character map in word and excel
I'm not sure where to post this question, but I am looking for a "pulled in reverse" character set of the runic alphabet and cannot find one, or how to rotate just a single item. Does anyone ...
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How to find out in Inkscape which fonts are used in specific locations for imported PDFs?
I use Inkscape to extract images and identify fonts from PDF files. I recall in an older version of Inkscape I could click on a piece of text in Inkscape and it would tell me the font name used for ...
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Outline text duplicate characters
I have a large document in which I am converting texts to outlines using Adobe Acrobat Pro. But when I do so, the file size increases significantly. It is because it turns every character into a ...
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How can I add a hyperlink to a text in adobe xd?
I cannot add a hyperlink in adobe xd text. I want a text which should show a hyperlink on drag or onclick of it.
Like we can do in Figma by clicking the (CTRL + K) key.
So my question is how can we do ...
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Anyone know the font on this Dustsilver keybord?
If not is there maby some with a similar feeling or vibe as this one?
Ive tried myfonts.com and whatfontis.com but neither worked.
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Can't get my cursive font to connect fluidly (FontForge)
I've made a cursive, Arabic-esque font in FontForge and everything works great, but the letters don't quite connect right, there's almost always a little gap.
I've tried messing with kerning and ...
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Looking for Pokemon Let’s go font
Hello I’m trying to find the font used in the logo for Pokemon Pikachu / Evee. I’ve attempted to find the font using likefont, whatisfont and my font to no avail.
All that I’m sure of is that the logo ...
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Proper optical size usage for variable typefaces
How do I know which optical size to use accordingly to pt/px size?
For example, Newsreader goes as low as "1" in the "optical size" axis in it's variable alternative. Does that ...
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Where is word spacing determined and how do I edit it?
I am editing a font in Font Forge but it seems there is no variable or property for word spacing. Applications all render this font with far too wide word spacing which led me to assume this was a ...
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What are typefaces similar to AMS Euler but suitable for text?
I like the shapes of AMS euler. I would like to use it for text, but it is made just of math typesetting, so it is missing some basic glyphs like hyphen, dashes, quotation marks and letters with ...
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Would these two fonts be different enough from each other for one not to be cosidered a copyright violation of the other one?
Not sure of the legal way of wording this; but here is my best guess. Wondering if design wise if these two fonts are different enough from each other as not to violate copyright law in the sense of ...
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How to merge or open a color OpenType SVG font (EmojiOne) in Font Forge?
I am trying to merge EmojiOne into a regular OTF font to give the basic OTF font Emoji support:
https://github.com/adobe-fonts/emojione-color
Typically I would open the regular OTF font, then go ...
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Eleven Paris font indentification
Can you identify these fonts or something extremely close to them?
Eleven Paris T-Shirt, Karl is My Father Collection
Eleven Paris website
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Can you please help identify these fonts? I need to find them for a project
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What font is used in these graphics? I tried putting them through different font identifiers but I couldn't find it. probably wasn't in their catalogue. One of ...
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What font has this weird H?
Can anyone tell me what font this is? I have looked everywhere and I can't find it. I tried some of the websites for finding the font in an image but they all get it wrong. The "H" is what I have been ...
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Which font does the Genz-Ryan logo use?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90769238@N04/8244823596/
Please help me either identify this font from the Genz-Ryan logo.
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1960s Technical Diagrams fonts used by NASA
It's 1960, and technical diagrams are of top design quality, despite the limited technical means available at the time.
Which font would likely be used for the main text in such a diagram?
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Help me find a non-commercial alternative to this commercial geometric sans serif?
I am trying to identify this font:
Specifically, I would like to find a similar free font.
I have tried the identify font services described in graphicdesign.stackexchange but I get only commercial ...
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How do I make sure the unicode box drawing characters work properly in my font?
Unicode has a set of characters for drawing simple graphics. Here is an example from Wikipedia:
┌─┬┐ ╔═╦╗ ╓─╥╖ ╒═╤╕
│ ││ ║ ║║ ║ ║║ │ ││
├─┼┤ ╠═╬╣ ╟─╫╢ ╞═╪╡
└─┴┘ ╚═╩╝ ╙─╨╜ ╘═╧╛
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Inkscape - how to change double lines font inside the rectangle box?
I am new to inkscape. I'm primarily using it for make flow diagrams. I've put landscape orientation of the page.
When I add text inside rectangles created they come to be of double lines. I've font ...
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Workflow for making stroke animations for any script out of existing fonts?
I am looking to make this Hanzi stroke animator, which has JSON data such as this, work for any language (as of now, Tibetan, Devanagari, and Tamil). Basically I want to show an animation of how to ...
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How to convert a regular font to a UI font?
I have an Android device and its language is Arabic. I want to replace its font with my own one (which is nicer!), but the default font for Arabic in Android is NotoNaskhArabicUI (which is a UI font; ...
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Gaps between overlapping letters
I am using Inkscape 1.3. Trying to use the "Milkshake" font, I see weird gaps between the overlapping letters, as can be seen below:
What is going wrong?
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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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I am working with Photoshop CC 2019 and I tried to write in Gujarati with Shruti font so it's not showing joined and non of them are working for me
I am working with Photoshop CC 2019 and I tried to write in Gujarati with Shruti font so it's not showing joined and non of them are working for me.
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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
serifed;
with similar contrast to Times itself, certainly no greater contrast;
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Font top gets cut off when converting PSD to PDF
We used a lovely font across several PSD files (see image below) and are now ready to print (PDF).
After saving as Adobe PDF, this is what we get (top of the G is cut off).
After reading some ...
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How to obtain single-stroke fonts for laser cutting
I’ve been looking for single-stroke fonts for a while. I need these for laser cutting. I have found many “single-stroke” fonts online, however none are really single stroke: once I Create Outlines, ...
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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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How do I create an emoji font?
I've got some svg/ai files that I'd like to turn into an emoji font. Is there a way to do this? Every time I try to import into FontLab, it only imports as a black and white glyph.
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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 ...