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The open source type family Cooper Hewitt has earned some praise from type critics. It's a clean and attractive alternative to some other sans serif typefaces that have been used to death. As good a design as it might be, I ran into an annoying technical problem with its font files this morning...

A friend of mine asked me what typeface was used in the attached sample, a frame grab from the opening title of a b-movie from the late 1950's. The typeface looks familiar, but I just can't put my finger on what it is. The sample is too small and rough for the What The Font tool at MyFonts to do...

Our shop is replacing a pretty old (and now malfunctioning) Graphtec vinyl cutter/plotter we bought about 15 years ago with a new Graphtec FC8600-75 unit. The host computer that drives the vinyl cutter/plotter is a PC running Windows 7 and Flexi 7.6v2. Has any participants in this forum worked...

Most people are very familiar with variations of the Dolby logo. I attached a copy of the original "Dolby System" logo from the 1970's. I'm trying to figure out specifically what typeface was used for the lettering above and below the logo, "Making Films Sound Better" and "Noise Reduction • High...

I just started having some headaches lately with font behavior in CorelDRAW X6. I'm sure this has to do with a slew of Windows updates from Microsoft. They obviously did something that is affecting CDR X6. My office PC is running Win 8.1 Pro. The problem: on screen rendering of type is kind of...

It looks very likely Adobe will roll out the "2015" version of Creative Cloud next week. Adobe has a big keynote address about Creative Cloud scheduled in Berlin on Tuesday, June 16. The first CC version was released 6/17/13 and the 2014 version was released 6/18/14. I haven't seen a whole lot...

Back in the early 1990s our shop had a Gerber Signmaker IV B. For those not familiar with the Signmaker IV B, the original unit had these pretty expensive font cartridges. If I recall correctly Helvetica Medium was the default font. You had to load different cartridges to change typefaces. The...

For the past couple or so years I've been using CorelDRAW X5 and X6 between home and work. I recently installed a trial version of CorelDRAW X7 on my notebook at home, just after doing a factory reset to clear out some garbage that occurred from a recent series of "not ready for prime time"...

This morning I've been having a tough time getting my Creative Cloud control panel to connect with Adobe's servers. See the attached images of what I've been seeing this morning. Adobe's web site hasn't been performing much better. I couldn't get anywhere in it up until a few minutes ago. Now I...

It's like the subject line says. A customer gave us a logo, in vector format no less. They want us to use the same typeface on a bunch of other stuff. The trouble is I can't figure out for certain the identity of the typeface. See the attached sample of some letters from the logo. It looks...

Hi All, The typeface used in the attached sample looks very familiar (in fact, I'm almost positive it's something I already have), but I just can't seem to figure out the typeface ID for it. TIA.

Early last year Pantone added a "+336" supplement to the Pantone+ spot color library. I haven't really thought much of it until a couple customers started specifying colors in that range. Since then it has created some serious headaches. I assumed Adobe Illustrator CC would already have the...

This one is really bugging me, because I actually worked with the typeface in the attached sample on a project several years ago. For the life of me I just can't remember what it is. I keep thinking the typeface is perhaps something from an old version of CorelDRAW or maybe Freehand. Ugh! Oranda...

I need some help with identifying a typeface that looks very familiar, but isn't really. It looks kind of like a cross between Times and Century Schoolbook but with more of a slab serif feel. At first I thought someone merely artificially thickened Times to make it look more bold, but that's not...

I can't seem to figure out what typeface was used in the attached JPEG sample. I'm sure it's a font since the letter "O" is identical both times it is repeated in the sample. It looks like a modification of Impact.

I'm dealing with a really nasty CS6 bug now for the second time on another design workstation. Back in March I was trying to open a CorelDRAW .CDR file directly into Adobe Illustrator CS6 64-bit. Previous versions of Illustrator have had limited CorelDRAW format support and CS6 isn't any...

Am I missing something, or was the recent CorelDRAW X6.3 update nothing more than a way to spam users into signing up for a "premium membership" subscription? They're gonna have to do a heck of a lot better than throwing in some QR Code and barcode functions (I can generate those things for FREE...

My installation of Illustrator CS6 64-bit is flat out dead. It will not launch. The 32-bit version still works. The 64-bit version will not launch regardless of restarting the computer or trying to launch the .exe file under the "run as administrator" command. I've tried searching for an aiprefs...

I've been dealing with some headaches from time to time in managing fonts in Windows 7 and now with Windows 8 as well. The built in font manager within Windows seems like an improvement over the one built into Windows XP. Fonts can be organized in groups. You get thumbnail views of fonts...

Hi folks, the typeface used in the attached image looks like a cross between Cosmos, Britannic and Imperial. I can't figure out what it might be. TIA for any help!