Recent content by Bobby H

Aside from the basic stuff like taking good, straight-on photos of the vehicle and getting proper measurements the actual design work requires some strategy. The actual wrap installation is a not-perfect thing. So avoid doing things like making border striping effects that follow around wheel...

Are you using a rich black for the black color in the gradient? A red color transitioning to a plain 100% K black color is more likely to have issues with banding and odd looking colors in between than a rich black color that uses all four CMYK inks. Depending on the red color values and how...

We have 3 old licenses of Flexi at my workplace; they're mainly used for things like vinyl cutting or doing minor things to artwork to bring into EnRoute. All of the actual design work is getting done in CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. We bypassed the option to add large format RIP...

Inter has a variable version. The companion static font files are derived from the variable version. I missed that discussion. I've used Illustrator for more than 30 years and I definitely see it as a potentially big problem for Illustrator to not show a wireframe of live text objects. Anyone...

That's odd. I see overlapping letters in static fonts more often from fonts downloaded from Google Fonts. I've even encountered a couple of type families that had only static fonts (no variable versions included) yet still had glyphs with overlapping parts. I think this is a side-effect of...

I just checked the version of DM Sans hosted at Adobe Fonts. They're all static font files. Yet the letters do indeed have overlaps. Another funny thing: the fonts will work in Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer, but they refuse to load in CorelDRAW. Something is definitely wrong with the...

I can't even get DM Sans to load in my copy of CorelDRAW. None of the static or variable fonts will show up in the font menu. CorelDRAW generally doesn't like fonts from the Google Fonts web site. Some of them get rendered as Arial for some odd reason.

Adobe Illustrator won't give live type objects wireframe previews. In Outline View the type objects are still black. You have to convert a copy of the text object to outlines. I checked one of the static styles of DM Sans. Sure enough, it has overlaps present. In Adobe Illustrator you can use...

Which typeface is it?

Flexi must not respect any overlapping shapes in fonts. It's a non-zero winding thing, something I first learned how to deal with using Adobe Illustrator. That involved side effects of converting live line strokes to editable outlines. There would always be overlaps in the corners. The same...

I'm stumped at the identity of the type used in the attached image. Scrolling through pages of samples at DaFont, using the What the Font tool at MyFonts and the Matcherator at Font Squirrel aren't bringing up any useful results. I'm pretty sure the lettering is not custom drawn.

Adobe deserves as much credit for revolutionizing computer-based print graphics work as Apple, if not more so. Adobe invented Postscript. The page description technology as well as Postscript-based fonts were critical elements in the so-called desktop publishing revolution. Apple happened to...

Many colleges and career techs teach courses on Adobe apps like Illustrator, InDesign, etc because employers are wanting proficiency in those applications from would-be hires more often than other creative applications. Adobe doesn't have any kind of thing they hang over schools saying you have...

IMHO, it's safer editing files and archiving them on physical hard discs. I'm not against cloud-based storage, but I only use a Creative Cloud account folder or other cloud service like Dropbox to store commonly used items (that are also backed up on physical hard discs). If I'm working on a new...

I've been using both Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW since the early 1990's. Photoshop was the first Adobe application I wanted to get; I bought a retail box that had Photoshop 2.5 and Illustrator 4 bundled together. I used CorelDRAW a lot, but the app had no ability to move vector paths into...