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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How do I compare the widths of two different fonts?
I would like to see numerical values of how different the character widths of strings taken from two different fonts MS Gothic and Liberation Mono are.
So I used FontForge's metrics, which worked ...
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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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;
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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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