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The vector warp and shape builder tools are not unique. It's debatable whether the vector warp effect in Affinity Designer is better than the Envelope functions in CorelDRAW (which have long been kind of glitchy). The warping effects in Adobe Illustrator work very well. Illustrator has had a...

$99.99 doesn't seem like too bad a price for the whole 2.0 suite (Designer, Photo & Publisher) considering it can be installed on a Windows PC or Mac and the iPad versions don't cost anything extra. The price rises to $169.99 after a limited time. I only have Affinity Designer 1.10.5 (for...

Technical is a knock-off of Tekton. It's one of quite a few copy-cat fonts bundled in CorelDRAW. The Tekton family has more weights and widths, which kind of looks like what was used on that business card. https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/tekton Oh yeah, the combination of Cottonwood and Tekton is...

Those letters look really nice and clean.

There's fewer, ahem, "deposits" being made in the first place. The US is in the early stages of what could be a serious, long term baby bust. As for the Fed raising the interest rate another 75 basis points, it does seem very likely. But it comes at a cost of the Fed losing money, rather than...

It may be they just don't have as much living space for all sorts of tangible things. Millennials and Gen-Z people do appear to be more interested in spending money on experiences rather than stuff. One area where the younger generations do seem "smart:" they have no illusions about the...

I can't have any sympathy for the group of young adults still living with parents but not bothering to hold down a steady job and/or go to college/trade school. These are the kids who fuel the negative stereotypes about young people: mooch off parents or anyone else willing to provide free room...

One thing I really wish would happen is for the 24 hour cable news networks to fall on hard times. They're a big culprit in why America's political landscape is so angrily polarized. They devote as much attention as they can to the loudest, most extreme mouths on the left and right. The loud...

The problems our nation is now experiencing have literally been decades in the making. Price inflation in categories like housing, health care, child day care and college tuition have been well above average wage gains and the so-called "core CPI" rate for many years. America's economy has very...

The Fed had no choice but to raise interest rates. One factor that contributed to the inflation rate getting so high: the Fed farted around too long before finally taking action. This is shades of the mid 2000's all over again when Alan Greenspan kept the overnight lending rate at zero for way...

I don't know if the lettering in the attached sample image is from an un-altered actual typeface or if someone took a more standard sans typeface and modified the corners on the letters a little. Any help with the font ID would be appreciated.

Big oil companies, such as Shell, BP, etc are publicly traded. The same goes for many of the companies more geared to oil exploration, like Halliburton (which began nearby in Duncan, OK). There are lots of smaller, private companies too. American oil producers would really like to build and...

I repeat: Oil is a GLOBALLY TRADED COMMODITY. Do you think that giant complex of refineries next to Houston exists only to refine imported oil? American oil producers like making money off oil exports. If buyers elsewhere in the world are willing to pay more for their product and that difference...

The United States already drills and refines nearly all of its own oil and gasoline. In recent years the US has been a net exporter of oil -meaning we drill more than we use domestically. Here's the thing: OIL IS A GLOBALLY TRADED COMMODITY. The US government has very little control over oil...

It does seem pretty shocking that rates for a 30 year fixed mortgage surpassed 7% for the first time in 20 years. I wonder how many people putting those news headlines on blast remember 1981 when 30 year mortgage rates went as high as 18.6%. To answer the original question, how raising interest...

I use Corel's Font Manager application to "see" some font collection folders I organized, but that's mainly for design tasks I do in CorelDRAW. Otherwise I just install fonts directly into the OS via Windows' Fonts folder. The Adobe Fonts service is pretty handy. I haven't had many headaches...

Those "2" numerals are Arial Black. Distorted out of their normal proportions. Vomit.

I gave up on using Flexi for design work back in the early 2000's. We have 3 licenses of Flexi in my workplace, but they're all on "production" PCs for driving various devices. Not doing design work. Limitations with handing type, particularly the extended features of OpenType is one of the...

I have two problems with DaFont web site. One issue is they have a lot of poor quality fonts uploaded there. And many of the ones that are of better quality can be found either at Font Squirrel or Google Fonts. A bigger problem is many fonts on the DaFont web site are free only for personal...

A gray color that is really a CMYK mix may print more smoothly than a gray that is made up only with black ink.