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Looks like an odd rip-off of Gotham with a really terrible looking "J".

Some client-provided "logos" can look terrible or even unintentionally funny. But we won't act as the "Design Police" unless the artwork is going to create a problem with fabrication or will just be illegible. For example we've had customers want really modest sized channel letters yet expect...

Adobe isn't going to give away thousands of commercial fonts (quite a few of which are recent releases) for free, especially when the foundries who make those fonts are still charging quite a lot of money for them via normal channels. For most of my design work I end up converting the type to...

The fonts are "installed" through the Adobe Fonts website, which you can access directly at fonts.abobe.com/fonts or via the Creative Cloud desktop panel. The fonts do require an always on Internet connection. When Typekit was first made available to Creative Cloud there was a limit of 100...

Yeah, it's all fun and games for guys like that until someone at City Hall gets a bug in their @$$ about it and makes his operation an issue. Or someone from OSHA, DOT, EPA, etc shows up at his business wanting to inspect stuff and go over his books to see how he has been complying with...

Just to clarify, Adobe Fonts has over 1800 type families available. Most of the individual families have multiple fonts to use, some have dozens of weights available. Overall I think it adds up to several thousand font files. I have noticed some limitations though. A few families may have...

Adobe Fonts is a pretty good perk that comes with a Creative Cloud membership. Over 1800 type families are available to sync, many of which are commercial families that cost a lot to buy outright. They periodically add more commercial families to the collection from a pretty wide variety of type...

I guess it comes down to one's definition of what qualifies as a real sign company. My opinion is a real sign company is one that has an actual building/store front and is able to build, install and service permanent electrical signs of various types. Further, a real sign company will have...

Is there any attached image showing the sample typeface?

I was really surprised the Mac version of CorelDRAW 2019 turned out as bad as it did. Corel put out all of this hype that the Mac version was built from the ground up as a true OSX application and that they worked closely with Apple on the product's development. One complaint I've seen is from...

The current upgrade costs $199. To be able to upgrade that copy to the 2020 version you also have to add $99 for their "Upgrade Protection." The way it looks to me is that perpetual license owners would pay about $300 up front to be able to automatically upgrade each following year for $99...

I don't expect Corel to turn off activation servers for version X6 and later anytime soon. But I don't expect them to be kept online indefinitely. Corel could start doing like Adobe did years ago with its first versions of Creative Suite. They started by disconnecting the activation servers for...

You can buy a portable/external DVD-R/RW drive, which can connect to a notebook computer via USB, for around $20-$30. Higher end external drives that can read and write Blu-ray discs are available as well.

The past couple days I've been greeted with new CorelDRAW "upgrades are ending" pop-up ads. Now they're giving a specific deadline date when perpetual license owners must upgrade in order to be able to continue getting discounted upgrade pricing, via their "upgrade protection" program. The...

For the longest time the Pantone equivalent of the MUTCD brown color has been PMS 469. https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/kno-colorspec.htm But that's only for print purposes to approximate the color in illustrated diagrams. The brown background color on actual traffic signs is a specific Type III...

The only font-related thing I use where the fonts are stored remotely is Typekit, aka Adobe Fonts. In that particular case if I did leave certain text objects active and the fonts were synced from Adobe Fonts two other designers at my workplace could at least sync those fonts from their own...

Now the news is Astros Coach AJ Finch and GM Jeff Luhnow have been fired. Apparently stealing signs is a widespread problem in baseball. The Boston Red Sox are currently embroiled in their own sign stealing scandal.

I'm not using Corel's Font Manager over a network. It runs slow enough as it is just "seeing" fonts on the computer's local hard disc, never mind trying to sniff fonts out across a network.

That's one of the biggest reasons why I use Adobe Illustrator to open and manipulate artwork saved in PDF format. The Flatten Transparency trick works reliably at converting embedded fonts in the PDF to outlines, even if those fonts are not installed on the computer. As far as I can tell...

Why would I do that? Several reasons. For starters I work with several other people who have to pull up my artwork on other computers when fabricating the job. No one is going to have the same exact collection of fonts from one computer to the next. Leaving lettering as active editable text...