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I'm thankful I don't have any serious physical injuries. But 40 years of working with computers along with drawing/painting stuff has definitely left me a bit on the near-sighted end of the spectrum. Thankfully my eyesight is still pretty good, especially the color acuity side. However it is...

The colors in the RGB artwork have a wider gamut range than the CMYK result. A bunch of the more fiery, deeper colors disappear. That's why I used the word "collapsed." I really don't care what term is used. It's an artwork issue. Again, just within the Adobe Illustrator environment I can copy...

I'm using the term "collapsed" because the color appearances in the RGB-based artwork shift very dramatically when converted to CMYK. The conversion method doesn't really matter either. You still get wildly unpredictable results. So the only thing we can do is feed the artwork into the RIP at a...

We have to put up with so many problems involving customer provided artwork. Unacceptable JPEG and PNG images are emailed on a near-daily basis, if not even more often. Clients play games with those junk files, saving them inside a container file in AI, PDF, EPS or CDR format. I've seen a few...

It's always fun to get a PNG image from a customer with the file name changed to include the word "vector," as if typing that nonsense is enough to fix the problem.

It looks like Windsor Light, or a variant of it.

Anton Regular is one of the first fonts I pulled up for the 24/7 element. Anton looks like it could be in the same type family as those 24/7 numerals, but only if Anton had more styles than just the Regular weight. This one just doesn't line up, not even when distorting it. At any rate, I ended...

Oswald is a match for the "Service" letters. I used the variable version, set the weight at 600 and had to artificially squeeze it slightly. Then it lined up perfectly. Still trying to figure out the 24/7 letters. I swear I've seen that "7" before; the upper right end is odd looking for how it...

I'm having a heck of a time trying to match up the two sans serif typefaces used in the attached image. None of the online font ID services are providing any accurate hits. They're not any condensed/compressed version of Helvetica, Franklin Gothic, Impact or Haettenschweiler. I suspect they...

The "square 711" thing is Bitstream's knock-off of the City typeface by Berthold.

A sign company may not necessarily need to have a TDLR number in order to install a non-lighted sign in Texas. But I can't imagine many sign companies doing work in Texas without getting one. Our shop is in Oklahoma and we even have one since we do work in parts of Texas on a regular basis. The...

Stayed in town visiting relatives that live here. The weather was just too bad to risk driving to Colorado; the drive back Sunday could have been bad. I already have an outstanding hail damage claim on my truck (it finally goes in the shop in December). Don't need to risk getting another claim...

There is an enormous chasm between so-called Artificial Intelligence that we're seeing now and Artificial General Intelligence. The AI stuff we're seeing now is pretty dumb. It's automation taken to more sophisticated levels. Artificial General Intelligence is achieved when the machine becomes...

The "AI" feature (Text to Vector) in Adobe Illustrator is overrated. At best, Illustrator's Text to Vector feature is only worth using for brain-storming purposes. None of the vector imagery it produces is clean enough to be production-ready. Under the hood all of it is auto-traced from...

For old logos or labels that exist only in analog form the best approach is scanning an authentic print of it in a flatbed scanner and then using the scanned image as a guide to re-build a vector-based version of it. But, yeah, the process can be time consuming. Auto-trace filters are only good...

I use a Dell XPS desktop system at work and an Alienware X17 notebook at home. Good NVidia RTX graphics boards, 64GB of RAM and NVMe SSD boot drives in both. On the Windows side I have NOT been a fan of kit-built PCs. And those seem to be a favorite of many IT guys and local computer stores...

Yeah, gradients can be a real can of worms. Normal linear or spherical gradients can be enough of a pain. I wish the Gradient Annotator in Adobe Illustrator worked more like the one in CorelDRAW. The one in CorelDRAW is a lot easier to control. You can snap either end of a linear gradient to...

The only designers you're going to be able to hire that are ready to hit the ground running are people with previous sign company work experience. And not all of those people are any good either. Our industry does tend to be a catch-all for f***-ups. You'll need to look at examples of their work...

It's not Impact either. The vertical strokes on Impact are wider. The "5" is different. What is "405 Unified?" Something to do with the Oklahoma City area code?

The only thing that seems to be publicly available is re-creations of the older Detroit Lions font used prior to 2017.