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  1. Font Ideas

    It's custom lettering for the updated Detroit Lions branding scheme.
  2. Corel: Embed Spot Colors in Bitmap for PDF ????

    Spot colors are not good to use in a gradient fill, not unless the gradient is merely varying percentage tints of one single spot color. Mixing different spot colors in a gradient fill or mixing spot colors and CMYK/RGB colors in a gradient fill will lead to unpredictable, unreliable results...
  3. Help with a font

    Heading Now Variable can get very close, but the "4" is wrong.
  4. Flexi vs Onyx

    We have Onyx Thrive driving two HP latex-based printers in our shop. I don't have any complaints. The RIP has an Adobe certified PDF "engine" that (when kept up to date) can process any of the native effects that can be baked into an Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop file. There are other RIPs that...
  5. Newbie Designer Here

    Welcome to the forum! If you haven't already been doing so, look at a LOT of signs. Not just to admire the ones that look really good for inspiration, but to break down what makes a good sign effective. I've seen really cool looking signs that are sadly ineffective because they're not legible...
  6. my apostrophes are wrong?

    Straight up and down apostrophes and quotes are what some call "dumb quotes." The apostrophes and quotation marks that curl to the left or right are typographically superior in appearance. Applications such as CorelDRAW usually have those kinds of marks override the dumb quote marks by default...
  7. Raster and Vector Image Customer Rant

    Mileage is going to vary on third party vectorizing services. Fans of Canva won't learn until they have to trouble-shoot the artwork in real graphic design applications to get it ready for production.
  8. Raster and Vector Image Customer Rant

    That all depends on a couple of factors. If you have plenty of spare time to spend on piddly crap like fixing/converting amateur artwork then, yeah, it's a money making opportunity. When you're busy you can make even more money with that time doing more productive things. Let's also not forget...
  9. Raster and Vector Image Customer Rant

    I see that stunt at least a few times a year. They literally think re-naming a pixel-based image with the word "vector" in it will make it so. It's a digital form of gaslighting.
  10. Raster and Vector Image Customer Rant

    That's one of the growing problems. Some office workers get tasked with graphic design related chores by higher ups. So they just figure out something quickly as possible, even if it means cobbling together some junk in MS Word, Powerpoint or (lately) using an online thing like Canva. Then...
  11. Raster and Vector Image Customer Rant

    There is no easy to get it into their heads. Every one of these amateurs has to learn the hard way. I see the same thing over and over again. Someone emails a copy of their "logo." The file is basically the first JPEG image they find on their computer or on the Internet. We respond asking for...
  12. Question about "Brand Guidelines"

    I'd tell him to go ahead and use his label maker. If the guy is that unprofessional about things then he is very likely not ethical or trustworthy either. When these kinds of clients get busted by the higher ups for violating brand standards and are forced to remove and replace the signs they...
  13. Thinking about adding a Wacom (or similar)

    I've been using Wacom tablets for a long time on my home computer setups. They're great for some tasks. But the steaming pile of crap known as Windows Ink has ruined any tasks involving pressure sensitive functions. For some stupid reason I don't understand Wacom's tablet drivers require Windows...
  14. Question about "Brand Guidelines"

    I've seen a lot of guidelines documents for regional or national brands. I've never seen any of them state it was okay to stretch or squeeze a logo out of its normal proportions. Most of us have seen the pages in these documents where they show illustrated "do not do this" examples of their...
  15. Question about "Brand Guidelines"

    If the customer is operating a franchise of a national brand he really needs to follow the rules of that company's branding guidelines. The brand is property of that national company, not the local customer. If the customer insists on putting his own creative choices into the sign work go ahead...
  16. How long have you been on here?

    February of 2005.
  17. VFW Logo

    The Cross of Malta logo on Page 53 of the VFW Style Guide (2018) is really quite a mess. Technically, it's a vector logo. But it has dozens of unfilled, unpainted paths that are working as clipping masks to how really low resolution pixel-based texture images. It would be some time consuming...
  18. S101 slow for anyone else?

    The ads are pretty annoying (pop-up ads in the middle of the screen from time to time and a new pop-up ad along the bottom of the window every time a new page loads).
  19. S101 slow for anyone else?

    The site is lagging really bad here in Oklahoma. It failed loading initially when I first clicked my bookmarked link this morning.
  20. Another Font ID Request

    Dyna? As in being short for Dynamo? If so, that isn't a match. There is a script type family called Dyna Pro and apparently another different typeface called Dynascript.
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