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  1. Font Name

    I was going to guess Calibri. Whatever it is, the sample looks like a screen shot. If it's from a web page, select the text and then click the option in the web browser to view the source code of the page. The font ID will be revealed there in a number of places.
  2. Font ID Request - Stone Temple Pilots album cover

    Which "flavor" of Bodoni are you using (as in, which company made the font files)? I've overlaid Bodoni Std as well as versions from Bitstream and URW. One thing I do suspect is maybe they took a Roman weight of Bodoni and gave it a path offset or line stroke.
  3. Font ID Request - Stone Temple Pilots album cover

    Bodoni Book Bold is too wide. This lettering is semi condensed. I'm starting to wonder if it was a custom job.
  4. Legacy Software that is ESSENTIAL for machine operation that is no longer maintained should be free. (Right To Repair)

    Software developers are business people. They don't make any money by maintaining old software, particularly software that was designed for past operating systems and ancient computer hardware. My bigger concern is being able to use archived files, assets, etc that were created using old...
  5. 2022's new overused business word.

    "Efficiencies" is another corporate marketing code word that makes my eyes roll.
  6. Font ID Request - Stone Temple Pilots album cover

    I'm stumped over what typeface was used on the Stone Temple Pilots album "No. 4." At first glance it had to be some semi-bold version of Century, or maybe a Bodoni. Yet I can't find anything that matches the lettering in the attached sample. MyFonts' What the Font filter doesn't turn up any...
  7. Fired a customer

    I can't stand those "sign broker" outfits. They're usually middle men with zero in-house production capabilities and not even any design staff either. The only sense I can make out of the game they're playing is they cold call lots of businesses trying to get leads. But unless they really know...
  8. Recession

    Some of these statistical figures, like the "core" consumer price index, are definitely a tinted view thru rose colored glasses. The Core CPI figure excludes prices of food and energy -things everyone has to buy on a frequent basis just to survive. Unemployment figures that are reported to the...
  9. Serif font ID

    Dutch 801 is Bitstream's knock-off of Times New Roman. Another Bitstream clone bundled with CorelDRAW, Aldine 721 is a closer match. That capital "A" is still pretty odd though.
  10. Recession

    I have more respect for a homeless person that keeps a dog with him than I do someone that has a home but dumps his dog off at the pound for superficial reasons. The homeless person at least cares for the dog and is somehow trying to make the situation work (still, it's not a great situation)...
  11. Recession

    I think kids who want to take a year off after school to go back-packing across Europe must come from families with money. The syndrome happening here is kids who are working, want to leave home, but can't afford to do so. Not unless they can land a much better paying job -which is often going...
  12. Recession

    I've personally seen plenty of $#it-bird quality employees come and go even in my own workplace over the past nearly 30 years. But I'm not going to go along with painting all employees or all people from a certain generation with a broad brush stroke. Good employees and bad employees are nothing...
  13. Anyone know this font

    The bottom one is Abaddon (squeezed like crazy).
  14. Recession

    Not everyone who is broke or struggling is wasting their money on frivolous stuff. The rising prices of rent, food, fuel, etc are factors taking a big enough bite out of the finances of people with low and/or fixed incomes. But lack of "financial literacy" is a big problem. Too many people...
  15. Powerpoint files... Can we use them?..Is there a way to use them?

    I can't stand PowerPoint files. Even the PDFs generated by PowerPoint are often garbage. We get quite a bit of work from Fort Sill as well as other military posts/bases in this region. They do love PowerPoint. And MS Word. It's rare we can take a PDF generated by either application and go...
  16. Recession

    People can have "jobs" yet still be flat broke. Really, I cannot stand how the financial press refers to "jobs" and unemployment levels in such generic terms. There are giant differences between great paying jobs, decent paying jobs and jobs that don't pay squat. But these financial experts...
  17. Recession

    Our company has had some long stretches of being really busy. We had one slow-down earlier this year which thankfully didn't last long. Next thing we knew we were covered up with work. Rampant inflation has me pretty concerned customer activity could drop off to nothing without warning. Around...
  18. Educating clients in what is and isn't high quality artwork.

    Depending on the project, like if it's just a printed banner or yard sign or something else fairly temporary, I'll just use their JPEG artwork as is. If they come back complaining about visible pixels, mosquito noise and macro-blocking from their artwork printed on the finished product I'll...
  19. People asking for logos...I'm getting irritated

    I've given many customers art files of their logo, even in a variety of vector and pixel formats. But I do not give them copies of work files (sign layouts, vehicle wrap layouts, etc). If they're going to take their assets to a rival sign company to get work done the rival sign company can start...
  20. Font Help Please

    The "Sport Fishing" lettering in the first image doesn't look familiar to me unfortunately. Odds are good someone else in this forum will know.
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