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I'm not having any luck with any of the various Font ID filters getting an ID on the attached image. It kind of looks like a cross between Roboto and Dynamo. Thanks in advance for help!

I'm trying to ID the two fonts used in the attached image and not really getting anywhere scrolling through page after page of brush and handwritten font samples at DaFont and Google Fonts. There's a decent number of fonts that are close, but just not right. Thanks in advance for any help!

Your PC's hardware should be more than enough to run the latest version of CorelDRAW really well. I'd check for the usual driver updates for the graphics board and other pieces of hardware. Another issue that can really screw with CorelDRAW: fonts. The quantity and especially quality of fonts...

Looks like Lydian Cursive. And it's seriously squeezed out of its normal proportions (of course).

One area where I'm going to have a difficult time hiding my hatred: these ****king "sign brokers." A bunch of these guys are doing nothing short of running a get-rich-quick scheme out of a second bedroom in their house. They claim to be a sign company, but don't have an actual fabrication shop...

Hate is a pretty strong word. Still, the clients shouldn't get a free ride when we have to repair their bull$#1t "artwork." I mean, we could print it as is, if the project is something that would be printed. Then you have an angry customer. He thinks it's our fault the finished product looks...

Neon signs like that need proper ballasts. And they need right type or amount of ballast(s) to specifically match the amount of current the neon tubes need to draw. It's important to know the the thickness of the neon tube and the tube length. One ballast can power only so many feet of...

You gotta be a hard-a$$ with clients who want to D-I-Y their artwork these days. There is just so much completely unprofessional garbage being produced. Everyone thinks he's a "professional graphic designer" simply because he gets his hands on some applications. These numb-skulls don't know what...

If the machine is smart enough to develop creative, right-side-of-brain thoughts it might develop its own sense of visual taste and decide which fonts are attractive and useful. Very often hand-drawn or hand-painted lettering can still look more natural after being vectorized than some stock...

I'll re-create pixel-based images of lettering in vector form only if there's just a couple or so words involved. And that's only after exhausting all resources to find the fonts that were used in the original. The source image needs to have a reasonably good level of resolution. Also, this kind...

You're quoting a post I wrote 12 years ago.:oops: In 2011 Adobe Illustrator was at version CS5.5. Since then we've gone thru CS6 and a decade's worth of Creative Cloud releases. The newest full version of Illustrator (v 28.0) and other Adobe apps) will be released next week, timed with Adobe's...

The script looks like Shelley, but really a mix of the sub-styles of that script (Allegro, Andante and Volante). That's from when Shelley consisted of three separate Postscript Type 1 fonts. This is why some letters aren't matching up. Various alternate characters are being used. The OpenType...

That's terrible news. My prayers go out to Fred and his family.

This crap is all the more reason to just not buy Flexi and go with some other alternatives. It doesn't take fancy software to run a vinyl cutter. Most routing tables need their own applications; Flexi isn't running them directly. The software is pretty limited as a design tool. I removed the...

Race to the bottom economics!

And you talk about me making up things? You're assuming our shop is not up front about what is agreed to or not in a price quote. In this discussion I'm looking at it from the perspective of the original poster. If it was me I probably wouldn't be in that situation in the first place. First of...

I'm not running for President. And I wouldn't do anything to make it easier for a bitter not-client to have a rival sign company or someone else working out of his garage to take on the project. The other guys can start out as close to square one as I did. They'll likely already have something...

Customers cannot automatically claim any ownership of a sign company's production files. The original poster said the only thing the customer paid for was print work, not any design fees. If a customer gave me a design idea (usually in the form of some crappy JPEG image) he would have no right...

If the client didn't pay for the design work and ties are being cut (for whatever reason) the client doesn't need to get squat. If he didn't pay for the files he doesn't have any right to them. Make the next person he hires to print his cornhole boards do like what you had to do: start from...

Where is the finished sign going to be displayed? Inside the restaurant/bar or outdoors? If it's going to be mounted indoors and visible to patrons fairly up close I would use a wood panel and maybe even go so far as to seal the wood and hand paint the graphics on it. If the panel is going to be...