How would I go about creating my own font?
I can't find the 'perfect' font for a particular logo. How would I go about creating my own? I have Illustrator and Photoshop. Assuming I could create a set of alphabetic characters, would I be able...
View ArticleProper Names - Definition
I would like to mention something about this fashion of giving proper names and titles small initial letters. It looks absolutely awfull through my designers eyes. Is it not true that in the written...
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Simulate Unicode Font in a Design
I'm creating a t-shirt and I want to use the typeface Unicode 6.0 UTF-8, or a substitute. I've searched a lot, and it looks like that font is used in programs like Dreamweaver, TextWrangler, etc., but...
View ArticleGeorgia font for smaller font sizes
Minion Pro has a "relative" for smaller font sizes-Minion Pro Caption. Is there is sth analogous for the Georgia font-a version of it specifically for smaller font sizes. I searched in Typekit but i...
View ArticleSimple Font Question
I'm a programer not a designer, but I have to create a logo for some web site work I volunteered for. How do I convert a solid font into a vector graphic with a solid outline and a transparent or...
View ArticleWhat goes with Zapfino?
Hi Group,I recently purchased Zapfino, and I would like to know which non-script fonts would work nicely as a sub-title or body text. I saw 2 or 3 recommendations on Linotype's site about a year ago,...
View ArticleHelp please! I need to know this font
I am working on a project and am looking for a font that mimics this australian road sign. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
View ArticleModern yet conservative font
Okay I'm looking at oodles of fonts. I'm looking for a font that says "modern (as in Internet age) yet still a conservative business." Dang if I know that would be. I've toyed with everything from...
View ArticleCreative Suite vs. InDesign CS vs. Illustrator CS bundled fonts
This is a complicated issue, which I hope can be clarified by this summary.With InDesign CS by itself, there are 66 fonts, many of which are new for the CS version. Apparently these are included with...
View ArticleArial Narrow Different Type Font than Arial???
We have a client who restricts our use of fonts, specifically stating that all use "must be 10 point or larger Arial or Times New Roman font type." We frequently use Arial Narrow when developing...
View ArticleBody text replacement for Times New Roman?
I'd appreciate some suggestions. I'm typesetting a publication of papers from a university conference (in InDesign CS4). The publication will be in book format, A5 portrait, and part of my brief is to...
View ArticleWho should buy the font, designer or client?
Client told me what font she wants to use, but I dont need that font in the future.I told her to buy the font because she plans to use it for more projects. Can youexplain in general cases when should...
View ArticleHow should a professional business plan look like?
Hi, How should a professional business plan look like? My teacher just gave me this sample business plan. Now, the content is alright, but what about the typography? I'm not sure, I'm not really a...
View ArticleRupee symbol - How to add to existing Adobe font
India has introduced a new symbol for the rupee. When can we see it incorporated in Adobe fonts? I use Minion Web Pro and Myriad Web Pro for my work. Or can I create my own, give it a unicode symbol /...
View Articlefont management software windows7
I'm using Windows 7 now and CS5. Used to use suitcase for my temporary fonts needs, but I hear of users having problems with it now. Problems deactivating, ghost fonts in de windows/fonts folder etc....
View ArticleUniscribe and Office 2010 crashes
Have installed Office 2010 but I'm having crashes in Outlook. Event viewer implicates "usp10.dll" which I now know is Windows' Uniscribe API component for rendering complex fonts and Unicode-encoded...
View ArticleHelvetica Neue Fonts
Hi, I want to order Helvetica Neue Fonts but I am confused about the difference between, Helvetica Neue 55 Roman and Helvetica Neue Roman?I am not sure if they are the same!I would really appriciate...
View ArticleProblem with Myriad Pro and Office 2010
Hello, we have a strange problem one a few of our computers. we recently upgraded a few computers to Windows 7 with Office 2010. On those computers, when they create a new, or edit an existing document...
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How to use Rosewood Std and Rosewood Std Fill with CSS
Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to get Rosewood and Rosewood Fill typeface to work correctly in a web page. I'm a Typekit subscriber they didn't have any advice to give me other than to tweak it in...
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