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The "standard" OpenType super family (90 weights) is available to sync at Adobe Fonts. The Acumin Pro Variable Concept typeface is bundled in with Creative Cloud, but not visible to non-Adobe applications. CorelDRAW doesn't support OpenType Variable fonts (at least not yet). That's another...

It's easier and better from a licensing standpoint for the client to send you the artwork with any active type converted to outlines. It also avoids technical problems, such as fonts that are not cross platform compatible (such as the TTC files Apple uses for some of its system fonts). If they...

The Seek Logo web site is no better than Brands of the World. All of the same hazards are present (fanboy re-creations, out of date designs, no use guidelines, etc). If you're working on a legit project for any national company it is ALWAYS best to get the authentic artwork and use guidelines...

While it's pretty difficult for me to pick out a single favorite typeface, I can say the typeface I probably hate the most is Arial. There are various technical and stylistic reasons why Arial sucks. Type designer Mark Simonson explains the problems with Arial very well here...

It's in the old Flexi Fonts 2000 CD as well.

The fonts posted at the Font Squirrel web site are completely free for personal and commercial use. The same goes for the fonts posted at Google Fonts.

Is it possible for anybody to just pick one?

The Brands of the World web site is not the place anyone should be going to get vector files of corporate brand artwork. Far too often the logos uploaded to that site are fanboy re-creations rather than legit artwork. Some of the efforts are good while others are just laughably BAD. Anyone in a...

Did you add in the extra $99 for "upgrade protection" when buying the CDR 2019 upgrade (given the CDR 2020 release may debut in the next few weeks)? Or did they even offer it? Corel drew its line in the sand the middle of last month on when perpetual license upgrades were going to be...

I'm willing to doodle rough ideas on paper with a customer in the hunt for specifics about a project before any actual design work begins. What I will NOT do is let customers sit beside me at my desk while I work on the project. Been there, done that. It doesn't work. Customers will have a...

That just goes to show the sheer lack of respect quite a few people have for the graphic design profession. They figure the computers are creating the artwork so therefore the design work should be free. Or they just figure anything to do with "art" is just worthless, goofing-off play time and...

Sorry I didn't see this earlier, but the correct typeface is Mistral.

Vehicle wraps and boat wraps are both major liabilities for this scenario. It's one thing if the vehicle, boat, trailer, etc is just going to get decorated with a logo, lettering and perhaps some striping effect -stuff that's all simple to do. As we know many wrap jobs can be elaborate and time...

I don't know if 5 licenses is enough to gain any benefit. Our shop has 3 individual license subscriptions to Adobe Creative Cloud. From time to time I get calls from telemarketers trying to sell us on switching to Adobe Creative Cloud for teams. I don't really see much benefit of doing that...

I blame some of this problem on the blatantly fictional ways how computer technology and graphics technology is portrayed in movies and TV shows. Some people just think all it takes to whip out some design is just rapidly type some gibberish into the keyboard and, pow, it's done almost...

Although this is a common problem we don't have a hard line rule on it. The approach will vary based on the customer and the type of project. We'll bend over backwards for our repeat, long time customers. Especially ones who have ordered numerous substantially valuable signs. Their loyalty gets...

For a real "jumbotron" LED-based indoor display there's really nothing worth buying that's cheap. Daktronics, Watchfire and Samsung are currently making the best LED displays for indoor use. Samsung's "The Wall" product has an astonishingly tight point-84mm pitch between pixel centers. I think...

That configuration is okay for medium duty work. It would probably be fine for someone schleping along with tasks in MS Office. Given the choice, yeah I would trade a SSD for more RAM and a regular magnetic hard disc. If no one was going to do any design work directly on that machine, that it...

I would check out Dell's web site for starters. They are having a President's Day theme sale. So there are plenty of systems they have ready to ship offered for a serious discount. But watch out for systems loaded with Win 10 Home. The Home version of Win 10 has some serious limitations. For...

The Windows 10 OS itself doesn't come bundled with cr@pware. The stuff I'm talking about is third party software that tags along for the ride. Vendors like HP and others will stuff their low cost, retail PC models with that stuff. This has been a problem with many PCs sold on the Windows...