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https://www.dafont.com/hemi-head.font and Eurostile and a forum for Mastercraft fans, where it seems someone has posted a Dropbox of all sorts of files you might find useful. https://teamtalk.mastercraft.com/showthread.php?t=51858&t=51858

That photo is cropped. Where's the rest of it? Most tombstones have dates on them (for obvious reasons), which is a good clue to help find a matching typeface.

In the dropdown menu in Illustrator's Character panel, enable Show Font Height Options, then change the Font Height Reference from Em Box to Cap Height. Then you can type "2in" into the font size box and your capital letters will be exactly 2 inches tall (plus overshoots on round letters like C...

That is possible, and I have heard of applications that determine metrics by measuring certain glyphs, but in most cases it's a stupid way to get vertical metrics, since all fonts have vertical metrics defined in the font file. Perhaps the app developers found it easier to measure an "H" than to...

I can't imagine many sans-serif fonts that are less alike than Arial and Century Gothic. Here's a tool that's really helpful in learning the differences between fonts: http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=arial&second=century+gothic&q=Go

Expanding on my previous comment... EPS files have supported gradients since PostScript Level 3 was introduced in 1997. If your application is rasterizing or stratifying gradients in EPS files, it's either because A) you're using a very outdated application, or B) some other complexity in your...

For what it's worth, I was a Windows-only user from 1992–2017, when I got my first Mac after 25 years of Windows PCs. I was leery about it, since I have always been a computer nerd, and I knew Windows inside and out. Three years later, I love MacOS – I had always thought Windows was better for...

Why is this even a problem? It's quite common for gradients to become stratified or rasterized in various vector formats, but the outlines that you need for contour cutting are always still there, in my experience.

I don't mean to derail the thread, but what on earth do you mean by secular and religious sign shops? Is that some weird metaphor for professional shop vs. an amateur (guy with a plotter in his garage) shop? Or an actual "religious" sign shop, like they only supply to churches and businesses...

Best advice I ever got about printing the colour blue: Blue shifts to purple very easily, and is a common problem across digital printing. Always make sure there's a good amount less magenta than cyan in your formula. "CMYK Blue" often refers to a 100-100-0-0 mix, but that formula is asking for...

Biggest question is whether your design work is primarily done in Photoshop, or primarily done in Illustrator/InDesign. We don't get clients asking for Photoshop-heavy designs with endless layers and effects, so I'm quite happy doing 100% of our design work on a little Macbook Air. It's a 2017...

Fellow typeface designer here. How much do you know about vertical metrics? Operating systems and applications have many different ways of interpreting them, due to a lack of standardization that spiralled out of control over the years. So, the way to troubleshoot this is to get yourself a copy...

The font is in Gemini's PDF catalogue – that's where your screenshot came from. Here's what the whole page looks like. It's all vector, so just pop the PDF into Illustrator and take the letters you want to use. Gemini does not provide installable "fonts" for their marquee letters, so this is...

Core Circus is not a free font. You got duped by a pirate site. https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/s-core/core-circus

The lunacy in this thread has left me speechless.

The Unite button in the Pathfinder panel is what you're looking for. It'll merge all the selected paths together into one, which effectively eliminates double lines, which are usually caused by two paths butting up against each other.

We always charge for design, but for small jobs we just estimate the time and wrap it into the same line item as the sign, and we mention that design work is included in the description. No one complains. If we find out after the quote that they need design work done, we tell them the extra...

If you want to show the relative depth of dimensional letters, you need to show an isometric view, so that all three dimensions/planes are the same scale on the page. 20° or 45° won't do the job here – isometric views are always in 60°/120° with zero perspective. Illustrator makes this easy...

If you straighten that photo out in Photoshop, you should be able to easily identify it on WhatFontIs, FindMyFont, WhatTheFont. PS: it's Calibri.

The downvotes I got for this, plus Bobby H's response that has nothing to do with my comments, are making me wonder if I didn't explain myself clearly. I get annoyed by clients sending poorly built PDF files just as much as anyone here, but that doesn't change the fact that it's the printer's...