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: How to know which second typeface should be used, given a contextual typeface? When searching for how to "italicize" a word in an italic context, I come up with an idea that changing the typeface

@Carla748

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: Exported a map from an .MXD (ArcGIS) to .AI, why did some textboxes including '≤' come in as '='? I will post the area in question below. Here is the "before" of the legend in ArcGIS,

@Rambettina927

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: Dots placing incorrectly in multiple language document I'm translating a book from English to Persian where some of the words need to still be in English and it's a mix of Right to Left and

@Turnbaugh909

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: What is it called when all the characters are typed out for typeface examination? Sometimes when choosing typefaces, it is helpful to examine all the characters so you aren't surprised when (for

@Angela777

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: Illustrator: Quotation marks not working for Google Font Karla I'm using the Google Font Karla in Adobe Illustrator CC and whenever I try to type quotation marks it changes them to the default

@Samaraweera207

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: How do you decide on a typeface? Do you go through all your fonts and choose the best one? Do you find a typeface you like and get variations of it? Do you copy your favorite typeface combination

@Ravi4787994

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: Illustrator: weird blobs when using Inconsolata from Google Fonts Does anyone else get these blobs on the corners of some characters when using the Inconsolata Font in Illustrator? Is this intentional

@Carla748

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: Where can I create and publish a font? I appreciate good and professional typefaces, but always think that I can improve or customize them for my needs. But where can I design and possibly

@Cofer715

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: Roman type in MS Mincho/SimSun Some time ago I had drawn attention to the font MS Mincho, namely its Latin set. Same (or very close) Latin set is used also in SimSun font and some others

@Deb5748823

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: DAVID JONES logo. Serif or Slab-serif? I'm trying to accurately work out the font category for the "DAVID JONES" logo. Would it be considered a Serif or Slab-serif font and why? Thanks:)

@Berumen635

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: How do typefaces become taboo? I'm watching a live Adobe UX design webinar right now and they're taking community submissions. One of the submissions used Lobster for their title typeface and

@Michele215

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: Can I sell a template that uses the fonts on my computer? I'm selling templates online and I was wondering if I could use the typefaces I already have on my computer (Mac) or the ones that

@Debbie163

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: Helvetica: trailing leg in lowercase "a" Why sometimes I find Helvetica with the letter "a" with the right leg straight and other times I find it with the right leg turned to the right: Letter

@Lengel450

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: FONT - Can't find a font used in psd After a lot of search looking for this font it seems that there is no trace for it in the web. this is the type-face UPPERCASE-> lowercase in the

@Rivera951

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: What is this calligraphic font? Does anyone know what this font is called? I have tried the font identifier programs online, but it wouldn't work because of all the swishes. I really love this

@Angie364

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: Type Design: Background and guidelines for designing the Umlaute (ä Ä, ü Ü, ö Ö) of a serif typeface I am working on the editorial design of a book and Lucas Bihan of Bretagne Type Foundry

@Moriarity648

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: Does anyone know what happened to moorstation.org? the 90s type foundry Does anyone know what the status is of moorstation.org's type collection? There were probably hundreds of typefaces designed

@YK2262411

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: Does Myriad exist Unicode TFF format? I am trying to display the non-breaking dash with itextpdf. However, it can't not display in normal myriad font. But I really want to use Myraid. Therefore

@Yeniel278

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: Type Research: »Die Rettung des Abendlandes« by Ernst Otto Montanus Recently, I came across this book cover in an old antiquarian shop and I was immediately struck by the typeface used. All

@Kristi927

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: Some good fully-featured OpenType typeface for body text What are some good serif typefaces for body text which have at least Roman and Italic, and support small caps, old-style figures, ligatures,

@RJPawlick971

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: Adjusting font alignment and size I'm in the middle of picking a font for a rather sizeable project, and we've largely landed on Migrena Grotesque. Unfortunately, the alignment of this font seems

@Odierno310

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: Name of this font i want the name of font and possible link to get it from

@Chiappetta793

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: How to explain to a client the font in their logo is not to be used for anything else I have delivered an identity for a client. We are using one font in the logo and another complete

@Ravi4787994

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: Difference between a Font attribute and a Typeface attribute Background: So, I am getting UI development in Android and as I started reading TextView attributes, I found an attribute called typeface.

@Angela777

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: Fonts with slanted e Someone know where we can find or style name of this typefaces with slanted e?

@Frith110

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: Can I identify a font family from an image using any Adobe program? I have an image of a logo and want to find out which font family is used using an Adobe program or any other program,

@Cody3331749

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: Developing a Typeface I have some typefaces in Illustrator and would like to export them as a font. Is there a free program that people could recommend? Or a database of font designers I can

@Correia448

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: Typeface identification – old-style I saw this page (shown below) on Facebook earlier and I found no results when I put it through WhatTheFont. What are the Roman and Italic weights of type

@Berryessa866

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: Design issues concerning header and body fonts with a different x-height I've heard it's harmonious to have the header and body text have similar x-heights. What if your headers have a lower

@Hamm6457569

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: JVC labeling typefaces I've tried using WhatTheFont and other tools, but nothing clear has come through. What are the typefaces used for labeling in the late-1970s on hi-fi devices such as the

@Speyer780

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: What are the differences between OFL and Apache License for fonts? SIL Open Font License is very clear and easy to understand, but I can't understand Apache License. Can anyone tell me the

@Kaufman565

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: Is this Dutch IJ ligature suitable and readable to native speakers? I'm designing a display typeface and have designed, for the Dutch capital IJ digraph, a ligature that combines the "I" and

@Turnbaugh909

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: Remap characters in a TTF or OTF file I've noticed that some of my typefaces have weird character mapping. For example, I have a few types designed by Dieter Steffmann, whose work is beautiful,

@Speyer780

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: Custom kerning of an existing typeface? I'm a designer working with developers to create a mobile app. A central part of the app involves showing the number "100" as a central element of focus.

@Ogunnowo857

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: How to prevent fractional text dimensions in Photoshop to be "pixel perfect"? Is there any way to make Adobe Photoshop text dimensions (e.g. height and width) be non-fractional? For example,

@Sarah814

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: What is the actual problem with Calibri? Recently I've been seeing many pages and blogs with some sour distaste for Microsoft's Calibri typeface, mashing it as if it was the new Comic Sans

@Rivera951

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: Is there anything wrong with using foreign language typeface in English? I'm working on a CV design and came across Gulim, which is a Korean typeface. I like the way it renders Roman characters

@Chiappetta793

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: How to account for a space in OpenType ligature? Let's say that I want to replace the character's " ab" with a new character ("_AB"); is it possible to account for this space so that the

@Jessie844

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: What do I need to know about fonts I am interested in selling my designs/doing some freelance work, but I'm not sure how most designers handle fonts. Do graphic designers make their own fonts?

@Pierce403

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: What typeface to use based on personality traits? I want to make my own online resumé website, so that I could show it to future employers. I'm currently working on choosing typefaces based

@Radia289

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: Name for types of fonts (sans-serif with bevelled stems) I want to find fonts like the one used here, which is SuperGroteskWebPro. It is notable that in this font the f, T and t have cuts

@Gretchen549

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: Generating font files from SVG files I am trying to make an installable font (trueType, openType + web) from different svg files containing the characters. The tricky part is that the letter

@Cooney243

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: Why is Verdana's lower-case pi symbol so similar to an n? Verdana (the default font of a lot of sites for Windows users) has a symbol that looks like an n for pi: In Arial, another common

@Kevin459

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: Are there fonts whose licence allows me to edit them and then resell the edited version? I am looking for a way to start from a base font and create another font from it, that I could eventually

@Margaret771

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: How one finds out the alphabet length or individual character width of a typeface? I would like a quick way to determine the column width necessary to create the optimal 65 characters per line

@Cugini998

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: What process do you go through when creating a typeface to make sure that it is not too similar to something that already exists? From the comments and answers I received from a previous question

@Barnes313

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: How to check if font or other product name has been used? I have used trademark searches before, such as http://www.uspto.gov/ but each country has their own, which means more searching than

@Hamm6457569

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: Why is it still common to use too similar glyphs for "1" and "l" in monospace? I have difficulty differentiating "l" and "1" when reading source code, i.e. monospace serif types. I am able

@Hamm6457569

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: Is Typeface and Type Family the same thing? I'm currently taking a graphic design course on Coursera, and the instructor uses these words interchangeably. Therefore, does Typeface and Type Family

@Kristi927

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: What does True Type Flavored means? I need to work with Open Type Fonts only, as it is mandatory by my company. I used Open Sans, which is google font, and even though it says it's an Open

@Steve758

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: What is this typeface with a very high A crossbar? Anyone knows what typeface this is? Tried WhatTheFont and all the other font ID robots out there and couldn't find out what it was. I can't

@Shelton719

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: What characteristics define a technical typeface? I was reading this other question in GD.SE and suddenly realized that I don't know what exactly defines a technical typeface. It is very clear

@BetL875

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: Borrowing punctuation from another typeface I am designing a piece of editorial and using Univers throughout, except for the pull quotes where I have used the quotation marks from Gotham instead

@Annie732

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: Would Using the Star Wars typeface for a Website be considered copyright infringement? My client wants a logo that uses the Star Wars font called Star Jedi, however I'm sure using a Star Wars

@Annie732

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: What's the meaning of Std and WGL on Typefaces? Taking for example the Rockwell OTF typeface. There are three "classes" inside of it: Rockwell Rockwell Std Rockwell WGL Are those particular

@Lee3735518

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: How to design the letter ß (eszett or sharp S) When designing a typeface, how should I design the letter ß? Looking at existing typefaces there seems to be a some variations of how the

@Turnbaugh909

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: Why are there so many variations on the ampersand design? Most characters have a single shape or form - for instance the letter C always looks like a C. The end caps may be different, it

@Nimeshi706

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: How should I approach designing special characters I am unfamiliar with when designing a typeface? When designing a typeface there are a number of characters that I, as an English speaker, have

@Berryessa866

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: Hand Lettering style? (not sure this type of question belongs on this forum but thought i would ask) So I'm looking at learning a particular style of hand letter, for the life of me i cant

@Welton168

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: Is there a formula for the largest readable font size? I'm working on a project about "creating rules" about design and text sizes in a layout... even when you do not have the size of the

@Gonzalez368

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: What font to use add text to picture, when there is no white background? It's like making an internet meme, except it's not about meme. I am learning English vocabulary, and I think that a

@Carla748

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: Using OpenType Stylistic Sets in Squarespace via CSS I would like to use characters from a certain typeface's Stylistic Sets, but can't figure out how to do so with CSS. Specifically, I'm trying

@Shanna688

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: What are the different stroke widths (e.g. in a W) in serif fonts called, and why do they have a particular orientation? Certain serif fonts have distinctly different stroke widths for parts

@Cooney243

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: 1976 TRW Defense and Space Systems Group font Is there a freely available rendering of the font used in this Paper? Is it some "standard" typewriter font used in 70s by any chance?

@Radia289

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: Fonts question [need help] I have been reading around and trying to find a solid answer about Fonts and their Licensing. What I don't understand is what type of license do I get with software

@Tiffany317

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: Sticker font - what is it? Searched a number of tools both automatic and manual and can't identify what this font is. Closest I came were an OCR (but the numbers were wrong) or New Letter

@Connie430

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: When are typefaces considered conflicting with each other? I have been reading a lot about font pairing lately, but I’m still missing to identify when fonts don’t complement and contrast with

@Reiling762

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: What are the symmetry-in-pair symbols usually appear in Wingdings fonts? For example, in Wingdings font: What is the symbols in boxes used for? I have checked the wiki pages of Wingdings,

@Correia448

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: Libre font databases with fine-grained faceted search I'm having difficulty finding suitable libre typefaces. Some sites, like Google Fonts, provide a small amount of faceted searching (or search

@Barnes313

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: Problems looking for a specific sans-serif typeface I've had a peek at your question guidelines, it looks like my question is on-topic. I really have no idea how to even research this problem,

@Nickens508

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: There is any font which have same from centerline I'm Prasann. I'm Graphic Designer ("Fresher"). I'm Designing my portfolio right Now. I'm creating Box to Put All Things(Brochure, Business card,

@Shelley591

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: What's name of this font which I can't find on what the font? Quick question, I couldn't find the name of this font even on WhatTheFont. Here's an image: Thanks in advance!

@Cody3331749

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: Advice about expanding a wordmark into a full typeface - best practices for shoulders in letters Does anyone know of typefaces where the lowercase r has a shoulder, but the lowercase n does

@Jamie315

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: Is there anyway to convert all texts to outlines in Sketch App? I was using Sketch to make a cover photo, and there are many words in it. I have to convert every text to online, so I have

@Radia289

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: Why does Consolas scale so well on Windows? I was trying to make a font from scratch. I always admired Consolas and I wanted a clean style similar to it. The problem is that my font doesn't

@Steve758

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: To use Myriad pro on website, but light or other? Sorry for my english and for my question.. (I don't know more about font) I would like to change the font on my website. I like "san francisco

@Gail6891361

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: Keeping track of outlined fonts in Illustrator I'm interested in best practices for keeping track of typefaces in an Illustrator project once the text is converted to outlines. Is information

@Gloria351

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: Typeface with little space needs for package design I got a package-design job where I am a bit stuck in a problem, and this is it: The company must (due to legal things) display an enormous

@Pope1402555

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: Recognizing font differences I’m making a flyer in Adobe InDesign. I’ve studied InDesign on my own, but I still need to learn about typography. I want to learn how to recognize fonts differences,

@Kristi927

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: Is there research on the preference of sans-serif fonts in printed text for Western European countries? According to an answer on: How are Serif and Sans-serif fonts different, and when should

@Holmes874

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: Is there a term for roman-type Arabic numerals? There are Roman numerals and Arabic numerals (perhaps more accurately Indo-Arabic numerals) and there also are three main branches of typefaces for

@Reiling762

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: Why don't upper case numbers exist? Capital letters add a lot to text in various ways, for names, brands, emphasis (although capitalisation for emphasis is frowned upon) Why then, are there no

@Si6392903

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: Will typeface design ever "stop"? This mainly refers to serif and sans serif typefaces used for everyday body text, not "wacky" display typefaces. I've been looking at a lot of typefaces today

@Chiappetta793

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: How can I create a batch action/macro to show lots of different typefaces to a client"? I have prepared a logo for a client and for the typeface I want to just change the type and show

@Heady304

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: Page header/footer in sans-serif font; body in serif? I want to use for chapter titles/section a sans-serif font and for the normal text a serif font. To be consistent: Should page header/footer

@Welton168

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: OpenType Features - Adaptable typefaces I have a typeface I've developed that comes in two variations, one spans horizontally whilst the other vertically. At the moment they sit as two OTFs.

@Margaret771

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: How to choose the "right" font size for a given page I asked a similar question in TeX.SE and I am not 100% happy with the answers. I find it strange that there's no standard formula that

@Candy945

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: What advantages/disadvantages do specific font formats have for print production? Fonts can be purchased or downloaded in several formats: TrueType OpenType Postscript Type 1 Postscript Type 3 Multiple

@Turnbaugh909

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: What things should I consider when using my own custom fonts on a client's project? When creating printed media for a corporation/legal entity, what exactly should I consider when using my own,

@Kimberly620

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: Is there software for comparing fonts side-by-side? Is there an application (or website) that allows you to select multiple fonts from a list and displays Lorem ipsum side-by-side for test purposes?

@Tiffany317

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: What is so good about Helvetica? For as long as I have known, a majority of designers have been beyond enamoured with Helvetica. While I can see that it's a nice typeface, I really don't

@Merenda852

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: How to determine a typeface's origin and whether I have a license? I am currently working on the cover of a book. I'd really like to include the typeface Rockwell Extra Bold which is installed

@Sue6373160

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: Licensing ' Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold' for a logo I used "Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold" in a logo project. Now I need to deliver the original files including the font to my client. The

@Si6392903

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: Is HelveticaNeue a good web/e-mail typeface if it can successfully embedded? I need to send some professional/commercial e-mails, my design currently look like this: Helvetica is very widely

@Holmes874

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: Is Marcellus a serif font? I was searching for serif fonts on Google Fonts and happened across Marcellus. However, if I were shown it out of any context, I'd call it a sans-serif font. I

@Hamaas979

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: Term for upward slant of horizontals in a typeface I've noticed that in a lot of typefaces simulating upright hand lettering, the horizontal strokes slant upward. In Comic Sans and Comic Neue,

@Vandalay110

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: Are there "bi-form" fonts that don't have descenders? Is there a font that displays the entire image of each and every one of the 52 English alphabet shapes ➝ and ➝

@Shelley591

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: What design resources should I expect to get from a client? I've just been approached to create some t-shirt designs for a tech company and I was just wondering whether I should expect anything

@Dunderdale640

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: What is wrong with Comic Sans? There's a great TEDxExeter talk by a colleague of mine, Simon Peyton-Jones, about the recent advances in the English lower school 'computer science' curriculum.

@Frith110

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: Webfont alternatives to Gotham The Brand Guidelines have specified the use of Gotham and Arial as the typeface, and I can see that in the past people have had various experiences with using

@Barnes313

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