Questions tagged [fonts]
Questions about matching fonts, using fonts together, manipulating fonts, font selection and font purchase and usage rights. Please use a more specific tag if available.
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What should one keep in mind while creating a typographic sample?
For testing fonts, producing Lorem Ipsum text is a common practice. There are other attempts to creating such sample texts too. E.g., the "quick brown fox" line. I am aware that the primary ...
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What font was used on the Kane and Abel first edition by Jeffrey Archer?
Can anybody identify this font? Or something similar perhaps that I could use?
First edition proof: https://www.raptisrarebooks.com/product/kane-and-abel-jeffrey-archer-first-edition-signed/
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Does Naomi font work well for modern minimalist typography designs?
recently came across a font called Naomi and noticed it has a handwritten yet slightly elegant serif-like feel. I am trying to understand its design usage:
Is Naomi font better suited for branding or ...
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Custom font looks distorted at smaller sizes (FontLab 8)
I'm in the process of making my third display font. I've noticed that in the Windows font viewer, certain letters get distorted at smaller sizes. Look at the z at 24pt for example (fig1). I figured it ...
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engraving font optimized for clarity
I'm looking for a font that can be used for CNC engraving. Specifically, one that makes a single path for each stroke of a character instead of its outline. I'm going to be engraving this as small ...
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Mixing lining and old-style numerals in text
I was reading Layout in Advertising by W. A. Dwiggins, and I found this table with some typefaces (on page 23). The used font has old-style numerals, and it struck me that the ‘2’ in ‘20th Century ...
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Best hyperlegible font
everyone! I am looking for the best font for legibility that has the following features:
a lowercase q with a v-tail or u-tail
a double-story lowercase a
a capital I with bars on the top and bottom
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Need your expertise in identifying a font!
I've tried WhatTheFont, Identifont and the Font Squirrel Matcherator and while they've gotten me close, they haven't been able to identify the exact font in this logo. The identifiers with image ...
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To print a character map of a set font in .ttf
I have a set of font take from this website https://edu.casio.com/it/forteachers/er/fontsets/
after I have accepted the terms and conditions,
Graphic Models
fx-CG series
fx-9860GII/fx-9860G series
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Can you trim down a font to one-language to minimize the weight of the download?
I want to use the Teko font on my website. But when I examine it, it's 150k
❯ ls -lah *.ttf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ecarroll ecarroll 268K Sep 16 18:46 Teko-VariableFont_wght.ttf
❯ ls -lah static/*.ttf
-rw-rw-r--...
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How do I describe this S used in this font?
I'm looking for the proper words to describe the style of the serif in S of this font.
How would you describe that? Is there any font that has that? More props if the font is open.
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Courier New is a web safe font, but differs on Linux/Android. Looking for alternatives
The Courier New font is available on Linux systems only if mscorefonts are installed, which means I can't, for instance, rely on the web-safe font courier new (yes, it's given a different font alias ...
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Can you help me find the exact font used here?
Can you please help me find the exact font that's used for the text "CEDRAT BOISE"? I cannot find a typeface that matches the letter "C".
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I can't embed the font in SVG
Please tell me what the problem is. I can't embed the font in SVG. I was doing a project in illustrator and now I need the SVG format with an embedded font. I tried to solve the problem using this ...
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How can I save the SVG format in illustrator?
How can I save the SVG format in an illustrator without converting the font to an outline, but so that other users can open it correctly without downloading missing fonts?
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