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Wow. That rip-off of Metallica branding is pretty shameless. And then the rest of the lettering combined with it is pretty hideous.

Impuls. There's a Bitstream make of it bundled with CorelDRAW.

U axis?

Nevertheless, Arial is the go-to typeface for badly designed signs. When Arial is squeezed and stretched out of normal proportions it adds an extra level of stink to the design. The only resemblence to Cooper is the heavyweight proportions of the sample lettering on that YouTube video...

We've been able to do that in the past, but not now. Every other day we get emails from sign supply companies telling us about yet another price hike on yet another material. We have to call up and get current prices on everything so we don't wind up in the red on a bid.

Just a spit-balling guess, but are there any unique plugins in use on the computer used to create the artwork and generate the PDF? That's really the only other factor I can think of which could possibly cause a layer structure to collapse in an Illustrator-generated PDF or EPS file opened on...

Our company doesn't require any deposits (especially anything non-refundable) just to work up designs and/or bids for most kinds of projects. If the client has production ready logos, artwork or other assets that need no additional work we'll create sketches and bids without charging them...

It's very common for customers to feel insulted if they get hit with any design charges. They don't think sign designers are doing any real work. Part of that attitude comes from all the bull$#!t depictions of computer use they see in movies and TV shows. Finger-rattle some gibberish into the...

Cooper Black? It doesn't look like that, or any other weight of Cooper at all. It's funny to see sign makers bitching about a very elaborate, flexible type family that's available for free when too many of us don't bother going past Arial in the font menu.

Roboto Serif is a pretty impressive type family. But, wow, the ZIP download from Google Fonts weighs a whopping 68.2MB, 132MB unzipped. That includes two OTF Variable fonts with FOUR variable axes (weight, width, optical size and grade). There's also 40 static font folders with 18 fonts files in...

The old VersaCAMM VP540 printer we used years ago was notorious for having unstable grays. There was this one vehicle graphics job we had where there was this silvery-gray diamond plate texture in the background. That gray would shift between having a green or red cast. Literally one end of the...

Wow, I guess I should consider myself lucky. So far our company hasn't had to get installation permits for full window wraps. I'm used to having to deal with all sorts of sign ordinance limits and install permit requirements in regard to permanent building signs, but not window graphics. A few...

Usually when someone is first diagnosed with ALS they're still able to walk, chew gum and do all sorts of other manual things. Pulling a trigger would still be very possible. When my Uncle Jim was diagnosed with ALS he was still able bodied. But then it was a steady decline downhill over a 2...

Gotham Black.

Our shop won't making "peeing Calvin" vinyl graphics because it's cheap, rot gut work not worth the trouble and it's not worth the legal risk either. I'll happily point those customers to the flea markets. We kind of take things on a case by case basis for projects we'll refuse based on moral...

Too many religious leaders in the US are failing miserably at being the shepherd to people in need of help. Instead there is too much of this fire and brimstone judgment belching out, along with way too much politics from the pulpit. It's no wonder so many Americans are turned off by the idea of...

With unplanned pregnancies far more often than not it is the biological father pushing for an abortion. Not the mother. The man doesn't want to be saddled with child support payments, among other obligations like suddenly having to be a parent. Many pregnant women have been beaten up and even...

Here in Lawton, OK we've been able to fill a few positions in different roles via students from Cameron University and Great Plains Technology Center. We have contacts at both schools. I participate on an advisory panel in GPTC's graphic design and photography department. We have a few employees...

I have a fairly big collection of old CASmate SCF fonts, some of which were copied from stacks of 3.5" floppy discs. Way back then CASmate had a font conversion utility that could convert True Type fonts to SCF format. I don't remember if the utility worked with Postscript Type 1 fonts. I don't...

I don't know what the cause could be. But something is causing the dot sizes in that halftone to go from big to small in a suddenly uneven shift. If it's not something related to original art or software settings then it has to be something involved in the hardware. That's the only other factor...