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It looks like a really bad auto trace attempt on the bold weight of Font Bureau's Agency Gothic.

Which version of Flexi are you using? It's not often that I have to open old CASmate SCV files from the 1990's, but they usually open alright. We're not running the latest version of Flexi though. The most common hiccup I encounter is missing fonts or slight kerning oddities with SCV files built...

I wouldn't want to get in the middle of that situation unless my company was the one who built the original pylon sign on which the offending tenant cabinets are installed. With that being said, I don't feel too sorry for the tenants who installed whatever they wanted to a shopping center sign...

Actually the only lettering on that sign that isn't squeezed or stretched it the "VitalPet" word mark running vertically on the left end of the face. All of the Arial (spit) lettering on that sign face is distorted to some degree. "Frisco" is Arial Black squeezed slightly. "Veterinary Center"...

Helvetica was created in the 1950's. Max Miedinger designed Helvetica (originally called New Haas Grotesk) with input from Eduard Hoffman for the Haas type foundry. The first release was in 1957. Linotype released Helvetica Neue in 1983. Earlier this year Helvetica Now was released by Monotype...

How many beers or shots of liquor did you drink before writing that disjointed gibberish? But, to humor your comment, the OP was complaining about a co-worker (a managing sales droid no less) who insists on type being warped out of its native proportions because somehow the fun house mirror...

Pretty lame and absurd strawman there. What other things will you have it do in my name? This discussion is taking place between sign industry people in a forum specific to the sign industry, not a burning building. As for your veiled "Action Reaction" threat, you can go pound sand if you don't...

I don't like any of the 3 options. The graphics in all 3 examples are crowded way too close to the edge. White/negative space is a useful thing in graphic design. The arrows are crude and ugly in all 3 examples. The "EXIT" lettering in the top example is the only one that hasn't been...

The UN won't have anything to do with confiscating guns in the United States. It will be our own government that ends up doing that dirty work. And we're heading rapidly in that direction with all the idiotic tribalism going on in American politics. It's all team mentality; "our side" can do no...

It looks like they're trying to give Jonathan Hoefler credit for designing the Gotham typeface when it was 100% Frere-Jones' work.

Not a real vehicle wrap, just a badly Photoshopped image.

Nevertheless, those restrictions cut way down on the kinds of signs a sign company can sell. That cuts deep into the revenue potential. Our company sells a lot of LED-based variable message centers and other kinds of LED products like price digit signs for convenience stores. Almost all of those...

You need to take a good look around and observe the urban/suburban planning trends happening in various communities, even right there in the DFW metro area. If you think the general public doesn't care about the effect signs have on the visual character of a community you are fooling yourself...

Unfortunately the sign industry does little, if anything at all, to police itself in terms of standards and practices. One company or one sign designer that does good work is not going to influence the hacks and cut rate companies who churn out cheap garbage. Design talent, proper knowledge of...

I like the top one the most. That's the one that hasn't been stretched. The bottom "Sample Text" example is stupid looking. I'm not sure what you mean by this. Adobe was one of the first companies to create digital-based typefaces. Adobe invented the Postscript language, the Type 1 font...

That's very incorrect, especially if we're talking about professional foundry-quality type families like Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk, etc. The various condensed, compressed and extended weights were specifically designed for those proportions. They didn't just take the normal width version of...

I have a hatred of type squeezed or stretched out of its normal proportions. The hatred gets really intense when the squeezing or stretching is applied to a uniform stroke sans serif typeface such as Gotham. If anyone wants a sign design to give off an amateur-quality, garbage look one of the...

I do not want a desktop machine for reasons I mentioned earlier. The creative process isn't always a 9-5 thing. Sometimes I bring my work home. Or I might be working on artwork that has nothing to do with my day job. When I'm away from the day job I just don't want to be confined to another...

I don't want a Core i9 CPU in a new notebook, but would like the freedom to max out the RAM capacity and have a good, but not necessarily top of the line video card. It's not that hard to understand. Far too often if you want to max out a particular feature in a computer the manufacturers force...

Actually, no. I do not mind notebooks that are a bit thicker and even heavier if need be. Some product reviewers lose their minds if a new notebook weighs more than 5 pounds. I can haul around a 5 pound notebook very easily. 5 pounds is nothing. Even 10 pounds is no problem whatsoever. I'd very...