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Many of the higher quality free fonts, such as those found at Font Squirrel or Google Fonts, have extended character sets that go well beyond 1990's style fonts with no more than 256 glyphs. Many have character sets covering multiple languages (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Middle East and Far East...

The Dow Jones and NASDAQ got hit hard this week. That pretty much lived up to my worries from 4 weeks ago. There is still plenty of room for the market to find new lows. The press appears to be saying the level of contagion has peaked in China, although there are new reports saying some people...

I pretty much evaluate free fonts on a case by case basis. It's true that the vast majority of free or open source fonts out there are garbage. But there are truly free fonts (including for commercial use) out there that are actually really good and meet standards you see in commercial fonts...

FontSquirrel and Google Fonts.

What I'm talking about isn't some closed-minded "stance." A company's work flow will determine what computing platform it has to use. A full service sign company has to run software to control vinyl cutters, large format printers, routing tables and specialty devices like channel letter return...

I think the company name is probably a bigger problem than the choice of typeface. What is that anyway? It looks like a hybrid of Futura and Kabel. At this point I could probably give the sign guy a high five for not making his channel letters out the typical squeezed or stretched Arial garbage...

That's true. But the intersect trick does not actually delete any part of the image. Using the node editing tool you can pull nodes outward and reveal more of the image being hidden. The function is a crude alternative to merely Power-clipping an image inside a container shape. The full image...

What you can make work in your embroidery setup does not apply to everyone else here doing sign work. For industry specific sign design/production software the Windows platform has far more choices while the Mac platform has barely anything at all and Linux is even worse off than that. SAi...

That's still not doing anything to edit the pixel-based image from within CorelDRAW. The function is no different than editing "Smart Objects" or even old fashioned linked/placed objects between Illustrator and Photoshop.

Arial coming pre-loaded on OSX is usually not a big deal to most wannabe designers, just like it's not a big deal to the same people for Arial to be prevalent on Windows systems. The fact Arial is present on both platforms (and alphabetically near the top of the font menu) just makes Arial far...

CorelDRAW doesn't have any functions to actually delete portions of a placed pixel-based image, much less have any functions to knock-out white backgrounds of imported pixel-based images like a JPEG logo grabbed off the web. You can use the node editing tool to change the size of an image's...

Anyone working in a sign company is going to be stuck using the Windows OS. There is absolutely ZERO way around that anymore. It used to be possible to do it all from Mac OS, but those days are over. Most professional graphic design work is going to require a computer either running on the Mac...

Obviously Arial has always come along for the ride in Microsoft Windows (nearly all sign industry specific software runs only on Windows currently). Arial is also pre-loaded on Mac OSX and iOS as well. The only exception is iOS is missing the Black weight of Arial (along with other specialty...

Most customers are okay with "close" on font matching work. But some tasks require things to be right on the money, such as replacing something like a damaged channel letter face. A typeface of a given name may have variants that are not identical to each other. For instance there's two...

The "standard" OpenType super family (90 weights) is available to sync at Adobe Fonts. The Acumin Pro Variable Concept typeface is bundled in with Creative Cloud, but not visible to non-Adobe applications. CorelDRAW doesn't support OpenType Variable fonts (at least not yet). That's another...

It's easier and better from a licensing standpoint for the client to send you the artwork with any active type converted to outlines. It also avoids technical problems, such as fonts that are not cross platform compatible (such as the TTC files Apple uses for some of its system fonts). If they...

The Seek Logo web site is no better than Brands of the World. All of the same hazards are present (fanboy re-creations, out of date designs, no use guidelines, etc). If you're working on a legit project for any national company it is ALWAYS best to get the authentic artwork and use guidelines...

While it's pretty difficult for me to pick out a single favorite typeface, I can say the typeface I probably hate the most is Arial. There are various technical and stylistic reasons why Arial sucks. Type designer Mark Simonson explains the problems with Arial very well here...

It's in the old Flexi Fonts 2000 CD as well.

The fonts posted at the Font Squirrel web site are completely free for personal and commercial use. The same goes for the fonts posted at Google Fonts.