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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Can someone help me identify the font used in this video game logo
Can anyone help me identify the font used in the logo for Persona 3 Social (ペルソナ3ソーシャル). I've alot of the font identification sites like myfonts.com, squrielfonts.com, whatisfont.com and likefont.com, ...
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Can someone tell me that base font used in this Persona q logo
Can someone help me identify the base font used in the Persona Q. I tried to usual machine identifers such as fonts.com and likefont.com, but no luck. I know it may me hard to identify since the logo ...
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Can someone identify the font for English text in this love plus logo
Can someone identify the font for English text in this love plus logo. I've tried sites likefont.com and myfonts.com but have have no luck. It would be very much appreciated.
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Help me identify a japanese font
Can someone please help me identify this japanese font? Need it for a little project I'm doing. Thank you in advance
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What font(s) produce the best looking lambda symbol? [closed]
Most fonts produce a pretty poor looking lambda, i.e., λ. I want one that has a more "serif" feel as shown in the image below. The Wikipedia page for lambda also has this image alongside the ...
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Any justification for default PowerPoint 2019 fonts?
I am using MS PowerPoint 2019 with the default settings and with these, my slide looks like this:
It by default uses Calibri Light 44 for the slide caption, and Calibri for the rest of the text (...
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Why was the Handel Gothic BT typeface specified for use on signs by fire codes?
...so I've been noticing that all the Fire Department signs in the Phoenix, Arizona area seem to be the same "Star Trek TNG"-ish font, which I looked up and identified as Handel Gothic, and ...
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What small caps and text figures go well with Times New Roman?
I'm reading Robert Bringhurst's excellent book The Elements of Typographic Style. He says that when Times New Roman is all you've got you should make the most of its limited virtues but that adding ...
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What is the best substitute font for Calibri within Microsoft Office?
I have read that there are a number of issues with the MS designed and default font Calibri. For instance, what is a Calibri replacement that will not change size when opened in say Pages, Docs, or ...
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Can anyone help identify the font used in this game logo
The logo for this game is for "Sakura Wars V". I pretty sure the logo slightly edited version of a certain font, but Im having a hard time finding what is the unmodified version of the font ...
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Can someone recommend some a font for a technology blog? Or atleast should it be serif ot sans-serif?
I'm looking for fonts suggestions for a tech blog.
Should the font be serif or sans-serif?
Thanks for any help.
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Minimum printable font size readable under a microscope
I'm a mechanical engineer about to invest in a new A3 laser printer but won't have the chance to try it out before buying.
It's main function will be to print technical drawings for checking. The ...
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Identification of Serif Font with round "a"
Can anyone identify the font in the image below. Finding a Serif font with a round a has proven difficult for me. thanks
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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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What font is this [closed]
Just a simple question: what font is this and where can I find it for free?
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How to select stylistic set for a font in Krita?
I have a font with few stylistic sets. How do I select a specific stylistic set of it in Krita? I have found some information about it only for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, but it seems I cannot ...
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Font with a particular style for the letter "x"
I'd like to find a font in which the letter "x" looks like the unicode character U+1D4CD: MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL X, that is,
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in the style which you would write by hand with two curved ...
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Can someone help me identify the font used in this game logo, for my personal project
Can someone help in with my personal project by identify the font used for "PORTABLE" in this logo. I've tried sites likefont.com but have have no luck. It would be very much appreciated.
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How to test what your PDF looks like without installed (special) fonts
I remember that Adobe Acrobat used to allow to switch between a view of your document based on installed and embedded fonts and a view based on embedded fonts only.
That option no longer seems to be ...
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How to design cover page/template for infographic?
I want to design a cover page for my analytical report, which contains 6-7 charts + information. So, I need advanced/professional software in order to design text, font size/design, place charts .... ...
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What is the best way to add missing glyph to an existing font automatically
I need to expand an existing font (consola) to add these characters ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █, and more in the future, for a programming project. I've searched and found a couple tools (birdfont and fontlab) ...
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Can someone indentify this font, please?
So, I've been looking this font everywhere on the internet as I can, like WhatTheFont, Font Finder, Google Lens, but I can't find anything, not even close to it.
Can someone please indentify it?
It's ...
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What font is used in this computer academy certificate? Check the attached image
I am trying to find the font of text "Creative COMPUTER" that surrounds the logo. They are two different fonts, I need both of them.
Guys I have already tried all the online font ...
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop stops responding when Font Library accessed
I am having an issue with Illustrator & Photoshop when it comes to font time.
I can click the font tool and type using the default font, no problem.
As soon as I search for a font or scroll for ...
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Are there any Japanese fonts with a similar style to the English font "Diploma Regular"?
For my small personal graphic design project I'm doing a Japanese cover of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas", but I am having trouble finding any Japanese font with a similar style to the ...
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How creative can a person get when the icons are only uploaded as a WOFF icon font?
When converting SVG icons to a font, the conversion seems to strip away everything but the SVG paths.
This makes sense, as that's what a font is, a collection of numerically (or mathematically) ...
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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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Font metric-compatible with Calibri Light?
MS's font Calibri is not legally usable outside of MS (and opening a .doc document with Libre Office will break the structure of the file). To solve that a new font named Carlito was designed to be ...
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What style is this font?
What's the name for this style of lettering? It makes me think of Victorian, but I wonder if there's a name for this particular style?
Also, can anyone help me find this font?
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Does somebody know the typeface BREAD AND BUTTER Type that the Life Magazine used?
The font for the headlines and the “bread-and-butter type”… it would be awesome, if there's somebody, some design historian expert who knows it.
Here's a (bad) PDF to look at: Page 10 for example.
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How to remove spaces present after some letters but not others in PowerPoint
Some letters in my PowerPoint have a space after them that is seemingly impossible to remove. I've tried changing font, adjusting kerning, and character spacing. Nothing removes the spaces. An example ...
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Need help identifying Japanese font used in logo
I looking to make a custom/higher quality version of the logo for Hanagumi Taisen Columns. I've tried many different japanese font sites and font identification sites such as likefont.com but so far I ...
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Font with variable characters: Different variants of the letters
I was just wondering if there are actually fonts where the individual characters are used variably. An example: There are beautiful fonts which simulate that a text was written with a typewriter. The ...
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Fonts for personal use [closed]
Can I use fonts from da fonts that are used for personal use in edits to post on tiktok? I don't make any money, so would it be okay for me to use it. I found a lot of cute fonts on da fonts that I ...
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How do I correct the user Interface font rendering pixels-per-inch (PPI) setting in Indesign to match my target device?
I have a document set up for intent "Mobile" with resolution of 1125px 2436px, iPhone X.
I'm using an eBook template I downloaded from Adobe Stock.
At 14 points, the font is rendering to the ...
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Help me identify Japanese font!
I'm looking for this font for a project but I don't know what the name of the font is nor does any website to help identify it works. If you know please do tell me!
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Convert variable font to static font
I've been playing around with the new https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Flex?query=roboto#standard-styles font from Google, and found myself a style I really like (screenshot below). I would ...
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Small caps and text figures in titlecase
I'm currently typing up some lecture notes for a university course, and I'm having trouble deciding how exactly I should typeset the title of the document.
The title consists of the subject ...
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"Pitch" when we talk about /computer/ monospaced fonts
Pitch is the number of (monospaced) letters, numbers and spaces in one inch (25.4 mm) of running text, that is, characters per inch (abbreviated cpi). The pitch was most often used as a measurement of ...
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What is the benefit of variable fonts?
Is there actually a typographical benefit to variable fonts? Or is it just the font companies trying to justify new purchases?
I remember Adobe Multiple Masters (and Apple's GX fonts too), which were ...
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Fill the inside of a hollow/outline font in AFX
I have a text animation (animated letters) in AFX with an "outline" font (that has no fill).
There has to be a way to fill the inside of the font somehow? Are there any workarounds?
I know I ...
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Font Awesome like characters without installing anything locally
I am looking for something like Font Awesome characters but which isn't needed to be installed locally.
Something free and gratis which one is welcome to just copy and paste and then give some CSS ...
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Strange fonts and keyboard input in some cells of power point
I an forced to use a template in ppt and in some cells of the template I get a very extrange behaviour:
"Click to add subtitle" appears in very rare fonts
When I press some letters in my ...
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Can you identify this font on metal plate?
I have seen this before but I cannot find it via Google Images, nor via other font identifiers. I know I used it before, back when my workstation was Windows. I have already traced the other object ...
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Can Someone Identify This Serif Font?
I'm trying to figure out what this font is. It looks similar to Cormorant and Adobe Jenson, but it's not quite it. I've attached the example. Thank you! I really appreciate it!
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Create equal spacing inside font/object for my son's LED strip
Good Morning,
I am wanting to make a LED sign that uses a 6mm wide led strip with the text "Mi Frijolito", that looks like this, which is 1.5m long and 0.5m wide.
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So the main issue I am ...
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Editing Adobe stock Editable Font files
Nearly all of my Adobe Stock Editable Font files are easy to replace the starter text with new text and all font design and effects are immediately applied. Online tutorials focus on creating these ...
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Font Creation - Ligatures between greek (θ) and latin vowels
I'm currently designing a custom font that includes a large number of ligatures using FontForge. While nearly all the defined ligatures function, there's one class that doesn't render as expected in ...
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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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Microsoft Sans Serif, comma character ',' hardly distinguishable from period '.'?
I am trying to use the font "Microsoft Sans Serif" in an application where numbers are of high importance, and am facing one single issue:
Using the development tool's default font size, the ...
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