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These days if I'm buying only one font file in a type package the font file is usually going to be an OpenType Variable font. I did that with Proxima Vara. It has three variable axes (weight, width and slant) which lets it cover the entire "static" Proxima Nova type family. If I buy one static...

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It looks like all the fonts they ranked are free/open source fonts. I'm seeing a greater amount of customer provided art files set in Montserrat. It's a decent typeface; it even has a true small caps character set. The variable version of Montserrat was buggy at first, but seems to have been...

EPS doesn't support any fills or strokes that have any transparency effects. That's a big stumbling block for certain kinds of vector artwork. PDF is typically required for any vectors with transparency and/or advanced gradient fills.

Many city governments are indeed using permits as a revenue generating source. I don't mind them all that much if the paperwork is simple and the fees aren't outrageous. In some cases city governments are using the permitting process as a means of pushing an anti-signs agenda. The idea is...

I was a bit more interested about people losing their fingers doing certain jobs than anything to do with drugs. I'm not going to complain about pot, only because I've designed a hell of a lot of dispensary signs, window wraps, etc. I don't do the product though. A couple years ago I had a bad...

I'm thankful I don't have any serious physical injuries. But 40 years of working with computers along with drawing/painting stuff has definitely left me a bit on the near-sighted end of the spectrum. Thankfully my eyesight is still pretty good, especially the color acuity side. However it is...

The colors in the RGB artwork have a wider gamut range than the CMYK result. A bunch of the more fiery, deeper colors disappear. That's why I used the word "collapsed." I really don't care what term is used. It's an artwork issue. Again, just within the Adobe Illustrator environment I can copy...

I'm using the term "collapsed" because the color appearances in the RGB-based artwork shift very dramatically when converted to CMYK. The conversion method doesn't really matter either. You still get wildly unpredictable results. So the only thing we can do is feed the artwork into the RIP at a...

We have to put up with so many problems involving customer provided artwork. Unacceptable JPEG and PNG images are emailed on a near-daily basis, if not even more often. Clients play games with those junk files, saving them inside a container file in AI, PDF, EPS or CDR format. I've seen a few...

It's always fun to get a PNG image from a customer with the file name changed to include the word "vector," as if typing that nonsense is enough to fix the problem.

It looks like Windsor Light, or a variant of it.

Anton Regular is one of the first fonts I pulled up for the 24/7 element. Anton looks like it could be in the same type family as those 24/7 numerals, but only if Anton had more styles than just the Regular weight. This one just doesn't line up, not even when distorting it. At any rate, I ended...

Oswald is a match for the "Service" letters. I used the variable version, set the weight at 600 and had to artificially squeeze it slightly. Then it lined up perfectly. Still trying to figure out the 24/7 letters. I swear I've seen that "7" before; the upper right end is odd looking for how it...

I'm having a heck of a time trying to match up the two sans serif typefaces used in the attached image. None of the online font ID services are providing any accurate hits. They're not any condensed/compressed version of Helvetica, Franklin Gothic, Impact or Haettenschweiler. I suspect they...

The "square 711" thing is Bitstream's knock-off of the City typeface by Berthold.

A sign company may not necessarily need to have a TDLR number in order to install a non-lighted sign in Texas. But I can't imagine many sign companies doing work in Texas without getting one. Our shop is in Oklahoma and we even have one since we do work in parts of Texas on a regular basis. The...

Stayed in town visiting relatives that live here. The weather was just too bad to risk driving to Colorado; the drive back Sunday could have been bad. I already have an outstanding hail damage claim on my truck (it finally goes in the shop in December). Don't need to risk getting another claim...

There is an enormous chasm between so-called Artificial Intelligence that we're seeing now and Artificial General Intelligence. The AI stuff we're seeing now is pretty dumb. It's automation taken to more sophisticated levels. Artificial General Intelligence is achieved when the machine becomes...

The "AI" feature (Text to Vector) in Adobe Illustrator is overrated. At best, Illustrator's Text to Vector feature is only worth using for brain-storming purposes. None of the vector imagery it produces is clean enough to be production-ready. Under the hood all of it is auto-traced from...