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It looks a lot like ITC Bolt.

$800 isn't going to buy very much for a computer involved in sign graphics production. I wouldn't buy a new Windows-based desktop tower with anything less than 16GB of RAM, a Core i7 CPU and a decent dedicated graphics board (not some integrated chip thing on the motherboard). Those specs are...

Ugh. That just makes my stomach turn watching that video. Not because it's stupid vertical video either.:D

It looks like a pretty simple logo to re-create by hand, if the customer provided image is sufficiently high in resolution. Nevertheless, our shop does not do free re-creations of such artwork. We tell them up front if they cannot provide a vector-based version of their logo then we'll charge...

Here's one trick I do: I donate platelets at Oklahoma Blood Institute about once a month. They're always calling me up asking me to donate since the eligible donor pool is relatively small and so many medical patients need the stuff (particularly people undergoing cancer treatment). Anyway...

I like the term "lifestyle" as opposed to "diet". The term "diet" often has a temporary connotation, as in someone will get on a diet to lose a few pounds. Once the pounds are gone that person will quit the diet and go back to eating the junk he likes. Then all those pounds will come back and...

I'm not a big fan of the Century 21 re-branding scheme. Some of the layout requirements in the guide can make for some really tiny type when you're trying to shoe-horn this system into replacement faces for an existing sign cabinet. Style-wise, it's a pretty big departure from the old logo...

The US is not nearly as densely populated as China, but strains of Influenza A & B still manage to spread across this country pretty easily. That makes this new coronavirus a pretty serious threat. I'm praying the bug burns itself out in what is now (hopefully) pretty isolated conditions. As of...

It can certainly be done with an ancient version of Flexi, using parallel port dongles and running on Windows XP. But that may only apply to versions like Flexi 7 and going back. Did Flexi 10 require online activation (in addition to the dongle)? Flexi Cloud and Flexi 12 both use activation...

The 2019 Novel Coronavirus is not something to be taken lightly. It has the term "novel coronavirus" because doctors and scientists have never seen it before and do not know the total potential of what it can do. They do know the virus is very contagious. The US stock market may be hitting new...

They're very similar at first glance. One advantage of Poppl Laudatio, it has a companion serif family, Poppl Pontifex. But both are dated typefaces in terms of features. The newest version of Optima (Optima Nova) has a broader character set, including true small capitals. But, wow, the type...

For end users it's still the same result: FREE. Nevertheless the fact is still 100% there of a company using "free" software as a means to sell something else (some of which costs a LOT of money). Google does it with a bunch of their stuff. Other companies do it. They have a revenue model behind...

LOL, I brought up that typeface in another font thread a couple days ago.

That's one of the most ridiculous, unrealistic statements I have ever read relating to computer software. Just how exactly would a software company expect to stay in business following that model? I'd like to know how they would continue to bring in revenue, pay the light bill and make their...

I don't use SignLab, but I wonder if the cutting portion of the software requires objects to be closed shapes, no open paths. DXF artwork from CAD programs can often be pretty awful. Typically such artwork is badly broken into thousands of little open path segments. Some elements may be very...

I don't know about the activities in Tennessee, but knowing the kind of activity taking place in the highly populated coastal areas of California and the Eastern Seaboard, I can't help but wonder if DHS is stepping in to bust these t-shirt shops could there be an anti-immigration angle to it? It...

I wouldn't think the Dept of Homeland Security would be involved with any enforcement actions on copyright or trademark infringement. However, the situation takes me back to my days of living in New York City. Back then there was a lot of sidewalk vendors and regular brick and mortar shops...

I'm on the latest build of Win 10 Pro. I can still install Postscript Type 1 fonts. And all the commonly used Type 1 fonts that were already installed have remained installed. I don't use MS Office, but I can open something like WordPad and set lettering in a Type 1 font. Again, this printing...

Those images remind me of using Adobe Type Manager on Win 3.1 (and 3.11 for Workgroups, Win95 and Win98). I still have a couple of floppy disc installers of ATM. But the issue isn't Windows. It's something to do with CorelDRAW 2019 itself. As I said before, Type 1 fonts work and print just fine...

I've come across a strange issue with the CorelDRAW 2019 installation on my work computer. Lettering set in Postscript Type 1 format fonts will not print from CorelDRAW 2019 to our Konica-Minolta office printer. Here's the funny thing: any T1 fonts in the document show up on screen in the print...