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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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Photoshop - Text to stone engraving effect

I have a oil painting style monastery wall to start with. I would like to add a customizable text onto it, line by line, starting with something like "the following is an epic tale". I'm ...
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Inkscape Showing all Fonts as Thick Bubble Letters [duplicate]

Inkscape 1.2.2 is displaying all the default fonts as unreadable and very big undefined letters similar to bubble letters. This happened on my original install of inkscape on Win 11, then I ...
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Looking for font similar to futura bold and this logo

Found a font that looks similar to the Persona 5 Royal logo call Futura STD Bold but the ‘5’ is not the same. Does anyone know of a font that looks almost identical to Futura but has the right ‘5’?
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Font where if an 8 is rotated 180 degrees it is unchanged

In most fonts the “8” is asymmetric - for example, with the upper circle being smaller than the lower one. I need a font where if you flip the 8 upside down by rotating it 180 degrees what you get ...
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Leading space/padding in sans-serif fonts

Notice the small space before the letter L in the first two lines in the following image. It's more notable the larger the font size, but it's there in the second line too. The fonts in this example ...
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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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Font identification - Interesting federal gov. typeface that's simple, but hard for me to ID

Found this interesting font on a government letter in an archive. Would love to learn the type face!
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Which font is used in this 'Google Fonts' image?

The typeface is the following: Which is being used in an image within an article in Google Fonts: Emotive considerations for choosing typefaces It's from the first image that appears in the article: ...
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Monospaced fonts with small capitals

I'm currently working on a project. I'm looking for free monospaced fonts that have built-in small capitals. So far I have found only the following: Fragment Mono, Roboto Mono, Noto Sans Mono, and ...
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how to calculate font ascenders and descenders in Adobe Photoshop?

I am trying to position text at the top-left corner of a canvas in Adobe Photoshop by setting its x and y coordinates to 0. However, due to the font's ascenders, the text is not aligned to the top-...
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Monospace Blackletter Typefaces

Do you know of any good quality Fraktur monospace typefaces, and if so, are perhaps any of them open-source? Background: I was thinking recently that the the blocky nature of Blackletter typefaces (e....
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Is there an open font that has the same length per letter as Amazon's Bookerly?

I'm writing in Google Docs and want to see where the line breaks would be for Amazon's Bookerly. Is there a free font available with the same horizontal length for every letter so that I could change ...
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Looking for a Font That "Speaks" with a Brooklyn Accent

I am in the process of a designing a cover for a book. I have been searching for a font that "speaks" with a Brooklyn accent, if you know what I mean, for use in the title. I thought of the ...
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Opentype features in Microsoft Word

I'm keen to use an Opentype font in Word that has a "swash" feature. However, the swash feature isn't under a numbered stylistic set (see below). Can someone help me select it in Word? All I ...
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Should Arabic fonts be upscaled to account for diacratics

Arabic fonts tend to appear smaller than Latin fonts because of the vertical space taken up by diacratics. This is especially noticeable when typesetting the Quran, which has much more of these than ...
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Can anyone identify the name of this font or a closer looking font? i am working on a project & am failing to identify the font name

can anyone please identify the font name below
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How to design musical characters in a font?

As a programmer, I was doing some Unicode testing and I figured out that the 𝄞-character gives an awesome testing candidate. Now, 2 weeks later, I was wondering how these Unicode symbols would be ...
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Which font are these numbers made of?

I tried to search online for these texts (with all font ID sites recommended), but couldn't find the correct one, please help me. I don't have characters, only numbers, that's the hard part: , , ...
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What is the codepoint of the RIGHT HALF CIRCLE in Unicode?

There are 9 characters are found with Left Half Circle in Unicode: 🤇 Left Half Circle 🤆 Left Half Circle With Dot 🤃 Left Half Circle With Four Dots 🤄 Left Half Circle With Three Dots 🤅 Left Half ...
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Can you help me identify these pixel fonts?

I'm looking for the font for "Los Koopalings Han Raptado a la Princesa... Esto es obra de Bowser." Can you help me identify this font as well Update I know what one of them is now the ...
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Why does the extended version of the Lato font have different proportions to the original version?

I have downloaded Lato from Google Fonts, which is the original version. Lato was later extended to include more characters, and this version can be found at latofonts.com (among other locations). I'...
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Similar icons to SF Pro Symbols

If I good understand developer can use SF Pro symbols in Apple products only, on iPhone, Mac, iPad. But if we develop something also for web, it can not be used, do you know any similar icon set can ...
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how would you find out what font this is?

help appreciated, don't have enough experience with fonts to get a good idea of how to copy one
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Change default font numeral format

I am using a font I like in a program that doesn't have access to all opentype features so I get no choice as to how numerals are displayed. By default they are old style where I'd rather them appear ...
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Can you create a font that changes based on what size you use?

In other words, I want to use different letters when it's under 20pt, which are optimized for smaller rendering. Is this possible with a TTF font?
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how do I stretch a letter S of an already existing font as smoothly as possible across a large page?

The font is called Anton and the S needs to be stretched to a large page, I already tried illustrator and indesign but can't figured it out...
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What percentage of page does/should a text occupy “inkwise”

I am interested what is the total area of a book page that is occupied by text. Basically, how much ink do I need to spend to print a page with text. I have experimented with different fonts like ...
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Help with identifying a serif font with slanted e

So I'm designing an Odia font based on old letterpress types from early 1900s. Matching Latin isnt exactly necessary but would be nice to have. Those old books used a variety of Latin types but I ...
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Font/Type fill-rule issue with intersecting shapes in InDesign PDFs

With some fonts in InDesign (in this case, HEX Franklin), the PDFs that are exported show weird rendering issues (see screenshot). I tried reading up on this, but couldn't find a clear answer as to ...
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Identify this 'Cinderella' font

Can anyone help me identify the font used for 'Cinderella'. I can't seem to place it. Thanks!
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