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Why do so many graphic designers suck at making gears?
Firstly, not everyone who creates a page/layout is necessarily a graphic designer. Many people who create such documents will just use some clip art. Basically it's copy and paste, scale and re-use. ...
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Is there a way to 'unsymbol' an artboard in sketch?
Select the artboard/symbol, go to: Layer → Convert Symbol to Artboard.
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What symbols have been used to represent planets (in the solar system, or other)
All of the planets, as well as the sun and the moon, have symbols ....
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/680/solar-system-symbols/
In fact, some planets have multiple symbols, depending on ...
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Why do so many graphic designers suck at making gears?
Form v function...
For a designer..... the Function would be a visual metaphor. The Form (if gears would work) is unimportant.
For an engineer that's reversed - an engineer would be concerned if the ...
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Why do so many graphic designers suck at making gears?
Disclaimer: This answer, too long to be a comment has definitely sarcasm.
//sarcasm mode on
Gee. I wonder why icons of people very often do not have ears, eyes, noses, or mouths. Oh, people also have ...
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Does a symbol like this or a similar thing already exsist and has its meaning or not?
This is called a Trefoil knot and it's a rather common symbol in both arts and iconography. If the outer 'leaves' are pointed, it's known as a Triquetra.
Both symbols have seen a lot of use, as ...
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How do you make a multiplication sign in Illustrator?
×
If you don't know how to use Glyphs panel, the quicker way is to google "multiplication sign" and you will get this character "×".
Copy paste this character "×" into ...
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Unable to draw logo with correct strokes and shadow
I assume you're trying to do all this with a single stroke?? Things really depend upon how you currently have objects constructed.
In order to get the appearance of an "overlap" you need an overlap. ...
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Image gets squished when overriding in a symbol in Sketch App
You can do this by adding an image fill to your shape.
Make sure you select Fill (and not Fit, Stretch or Tile).
You can then override the image just like you would any other.
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How to improve performance with multiple duplicated objects?
Use symbols as explained in the Adobe manual. It can save you time and greatly reduce file size.
To create a symbol do one of the following:
Click the New Symbol button in the Symbols panel.
Drag ...
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Typography/Character ID; Semicircle with bracket
It looks like some stylized form of a pilcrow sign U+00B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN or rather the earlier capitulum U+2E3F ⸿ CAPITULUM.
See the Wikipedia article on Pilcrow.
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Helvetica character for an empty checkbox
Plain, standard Helvetica does not contain a box glyph. (And if yours does: be careful, if it appears to do, that may actually be the .notdef glyph! Such a character is not suitable to use in a ...
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Does a symbol like this or a similar thing already exsist and has its meaning or not?
This looks (to my eyes at least) rather like a very basic Celtic Knot aka a Triquesta or Trinity Knot. There are lots of references to these things to be found on the internet if you search for the ...
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Masking a shape out of symbol in Sketch 3
Here is a tutorial I just created for you. I made it step by step since I didn't know how comfortable you feel with Sketch.
See that the important part is how you create your initial logo. Always on ...
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Sketch: As a symbol, adding text will resize the text block height
I'm desperately looking for an overall solution for this as well. The little workaround I've found until now, is a solution where you at least can compensate the look for one text object dropping to 2 ...
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Why circular 8 looks better than square 8
Not sure what you mean. Who says one is better than the other and in what context? The 'circular' 8 has a long history tracing back to the 3rd-4th-5th century in modern day India and Iraq, while the '...
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How do you make a multiplication sign in Illustrator?
I cheat....
Make a + in practically any font. Then using the Character Panel rotate it 45°
Some typefaces work better than others. This often aids in the x remaining visually consistent with any ...
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Sketch: Object moves relative to another object/text in symbol
With a bit of trial and error I've narrowed down the requirements.
The alignment of the text needs to be set to Auto
The horizontal space between the text and the other layer needs to be ≥ 0 and ≤ ...
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Sketch: Object moves relative to another object/text in symbol
Many thanks to twitter user @kieranpblack !
You must have at least 1px between the text layer and the second layer for it to work.
Works on any resizing option, including default stretch!
(Can't ...
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How can I avoid icons with double meanings?
A rule of thumb with icons is to keep it as simple as possible.
It's important that users get the idea by the first look, not by the second and third until the 'AHA' moment occurs. In general, you ...
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How to work around 100 artboard limitation in Illustrator for large project with many symbols?
As far as I'm aware there is no way around this limit. A limit is a limit in this case... So let's just deal with it. This is thinking inside the box...
So for example if you have 176 objects, just ...
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Simple icon to represent 'presets'?
Given the specific nature of the presets you're working with, I'd suggest reconceptualising them from the top, and using that new concept to derive the icon - I'm talking about your switching your ...
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What is the name of this extinct type symbol?
vſqꝫ
It is a ligature between q and ꝫ U+A76B LATIN SMALL LETTER ET. The ligature itself in encoded in the private use area of the Medieval Unicode Font Initative MUFI as U+E8BF LATIN SMALL LETTER Q ...
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Typography/Character ID; Semicircle with bracket
I've never seen anything like that before. Sorry. It could be something completely unique to the book you mention. You might have to face the possibility that it isn't a glyph from a font, or any ...
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Does a symbol like this or a similar thing already exsist and has its meaning or not?
"Trefoil" is a name for a sort of universal three-lobed shape that is based on a type of plant, like a clover. Google's definition and images are here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=trefoil&rlz=...
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Illustrator: Change the colors of a symbol
Dynamic symbols were introduced with Illustrator CC 2015 which let you change the fill/stroke/etc without breaking the link to the master. You just select the placed symbol with the Direct Selection ...
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Width of unicode musical symbols vis a vis fixed width font
You could just use a table with a cell for each glyph.
So, this is how it renders with your current markup:
This is how it looks with each glyph in its own cell:
The markup for that is:
<table ...
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Width of unicode musical symbols vis a vis fixed width font
It boils down to: you need (to find) a monospaced font that contains musical symbols and load this as a webfont into your document.
If such a font does not exist (or you do not want to pay for it)...
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