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Closest thing to a Mac I have is a 12.9" 2nd gen iPad Pro. It's a great device to have for anything that involves drawing or sketching directly on the screen. I used to hand draw a lot of sketches and elements on paper and run them through a flat bed scanner. Not anymore. The Apple Pencil...

The easiest thing to do is use "chromatic" types of fonts where multiple copies of the same text string are stacked on top of each other using different styles of that font family. Industry Inc by Fort Foundry is one example. It has bevel, shadow, inline and other styles to stack on each other...

Our shop passes on sign projects somewhat frequently. The most common thing is installation jobs we just can't fit into our schedule and/or the customer wants too much PITA red tape paperwork and leg work to go with it. We're not desperate for install jobs, but some of those kinds of customers...

It's definitely Rockwell Bold with a good bit of squeezing and stretching done to the letters.

Generally, I try to avoid distorting fonts out of their normal proportions. This can be especially critical for something like a channel letter sign. Years later if the sign gets damaged and needs cracked or broken letter faces replaced it will still be a fairly simple job even in the event of...

I have seen plenty of sign codes from cities or shopping centers dictate size maximums, either in terms of inches or percentage of a store front's width or height. But I have never seen a city require a sign be built exactly to a specific length in order to get an installation permit. I size...

Like the subject line says, Serif is having a 50% off Spring Sale for its Affinity creative software products (Designer, Photo and Publisher) plus 50% off for software add-ons. Designer, Photo and Publisher are each normally priced at $54.99, but are now marked down to $26.99. The iPad versions...

A city's sign code requires a 3D rendering of the sign depicted on the building? Really? If that's the case then I'm 100% sure the rule is there as an attempt to prevent businesses installing channel letter signs at all. Some municipal sign codes are deliberately crafted like that. Bury the sign...

Truly valuable clients usually have their s*** together and don't insult people by re-sending the same JPEG image they sent the first time wrapped inside an AI file container. At least for us the clients ordering pretty serious packages of work not only provide vector artwork of their logos, but...

This topic is a never-ending struggle for my company. Most of the people providing their "logo" for a sign project ARE LAZY AND COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT DETAILS. They especially don't want to be troubled with nonsense such as the difference between pixel-based artwork and vector-based artwork...

Typically, channel letter sign designs are all done in 2D form, rarely 3D. 99% of channel letter sign projects are not worth the time required to model out in 3D. The front view is a given, maybe with both close-up "detail" front and side views of the sign and then front views of the sign on the...

Yeah, it looks like CocoMat Ultralight, with the slightest bit of an outline stroke applied to it. I didn't know this "free" CocoMat typeface existed. I bought copies of CocoGoose, CocoSharp and CocoGothic Pro a year or so ago (on sale). The really strange thing is What The Font didn't give any...

Nexa is another typeface that is close but not quite right. The thin weight of Nexa has the proper stroke thickness, but the proportions are a bit too wide. Plus the stems in Nexa are squared off, the stems in these letters are slightly rounded.

I'm stumped by this one. What the Font is not turning up any exact matches. So I figured it must be something from the free fonts realm. At first glance I thought it might be Raleway, but nope. About the nearest thing I can find to a match is Quicksand, which unfortunately is not it either. VAG...

It looks like a bad knock-off of Desire Pro.

What kind of content is in this CorelDRAW layout? Does it have a bunch of embedded photographs or any other pixel-based stuff? Or is all the content vector-based? Either way PDF will be a better choice than JPEG. Any vector-based objects (such as type elements) can be maintained as vector-based...

Yep. I'm pretty well convinced this person is a troll. I'm out.

My shop had a Signmaker 4B when I first started there. It had about a dozen or so different plug-in font modules. We had it hooked up where it could run passively, driven by a MS-DOS version of CASmate. Those were some quaint times back then. Arial is actually an ugly-looking hodge-podge of...

There is far more motivation for residents of a town to enter data from old analog records into digital form than get a bunch of random people to agree to build a fonts database. This is basically a very apples to oranges comparison. Throwing up other examples (FedEX history, Lotto operations...

What you're asking for is not realistic at all. The "What The Font" tool at MyFonts' web site already does the things you describe. I think there are other tools online that serve a similar purpose. I'm skeptical a crowd-sourced rival to MyFonts' What The Font tool is going to be any better...