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Various styles in the German "DIN" families would look similar. Pretty difficult to get an exact match based on someone's pencil sketch.

That one is close, but it doesn't have as much "detail" as the pixel-based source image.

I thought the lettering in the attached sample might be Caslon Antique (aka "Casablanca Antique" for longtime CorelDRAW users). But that's way off. What the Font isn't delivering any matching IDs. Need help figuring out this one in order to duplicate some customer provided artwork. Thanks in...

It looks like Handel Gothic, perhaps with some alterations made to the characters.

I'm trying to figure out the identity of the typeface used in the attached sample. I have vectors of some of the artwork in question. Unfortunately I need the original source typeface because geometry issues require a new arrangement. I've scrolled through pages of square techno looking fonts at...

I don't like outright bans on any sign categories. LED variable message signs (aka electronic message centers) are a worthwhile upgrade to changeable copy cabinets, billboard faces and several other display types. But the point is cities like Edmond, OK have gone well past just banning EMC's...

Graphic design and designing signs in particular takes a little more skill, talent and expertise than: "hold my beer." But just about anyone thinks they can do graphic design work because just about anyone thinks "graphic designer" is a phony job anyone can do. It's not like being a diesel...

There is a couple of possible problems. What typeface is it and what format? Most of the fonts in the Adobe Fonts service are in OpenType format, but a growing number are available in OpenType Variable format. A few are even in OpenType-SVG (aka color fonts). As far as I can tell Flexi and most...

For a 2.3MB PDF I expected to see something more complicated. I placed it in Adobe Illustrator, did the Flatten Transparency trick to convert the fonts to outlines. I also ran it through Vector First Aid to delete any unnecessary clipping masks or groups and fix small issues with anchor points...

I would have to try out a new Frosty to experience the difference. I worked at a Wendy's location in Quantico, VA back in the mid 1980's. Frosties were definitely the "old school" variety then. They were great fresh out of the Frosy machine. They weren't so good after being "saved for later" in...

I've rarely ever eaten at a Wendy's restaurant since working at one for a few months back in high school. I learned how the chili was made for one thing. All the extra meat patties that would burn too long on the grill were re-used for the chili meat. The over-grilled patties would all go into a...

Gill Sans and Gotham? Not a good combination. At least it's not friggin' Arial.

Just a late comment here regarding large-capital small-capital treatments, faked small capitals just suck. There is little excuse for anyone to keep doing faked small capitals. So many OpenType fonts have native small cap character sets, even the more recent versions of default Arial. As much...

Acropolis-HTF is very similar, but not an exact match to the posted sample image. The "R" is different for one thing. The actual font could be some sort of knock-off of Acropolis with some minor changes made.

I first learned graphics production the analog way back in the 1980's. That made it a bit easier diving into very early (and very primitive) versions of CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator over 30 years ago. Lots of terms in the applications were already familiar. So many years and version releases...

One reason Illustrator files tend to be larger is they embed a bunch of PDF data by default. Most Illustrator-generated AI files can be opened and viewed in Adobe Reader (unless defaults are changed). Depending on the document's raster effects resolution settings certain "live" effects like drop...

I've seen the syndrome a few times where a long time customer is suddenly getting signs from elsewhere. The other day a young lady called up asking for their hardware store logo. I've sent these folks copies of their logo before, but it's pretty common for customers to lose art files. Anyway, I...

The geometric sans font used in the attached image looks familiar, but I can't seem to ID it. I'm pretty sure it's a free font, probably somewhere in the giant pile of sans fonts at DaFont or something like that. Thanks in advance for any help.

Overprints have their place in actual process printing, where multiple ink plates are being produced. The basics of overprinting is you'll print one ink color over the top of another ink color without the overprinted object knocking a hole through the objects underneath it. Overprinting is in a...

OpenGL is totally irrelevant to what I was talking about. I was talking about how various tools behave in either application and the keyboard shortcuts associated with them. OpenGL doesn't have anything to do with that. The things I said about CorelDRAW having better object aligning &...