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I'm really stumped at trying to ID the typeface used for the building letters in the attached image. I doubt it's a commercial typeface, but then I can't find it at any of the usual freebie sites like DaFont. Thanks in advance for any help.

NO, it's not a "mental thing" at all. Lots of brand artwork and other assets are created using Adobe's applications. The rival applications often SUCK at opening those files. If the artwork is more and more complicated and/or uses unique effects (such as Illustrator art brush or pattern brush...

First of all, that "302" looks pretty awful. Were the numerals constructed out of the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man's fingers? If re-creating it in vector form is necessary it looks like a pretty easy job. For a quick and dirty (and not faithful re-creation) of the numerals you could set the "302"...

If it's just the logo I need I'll usually go hunting through various PDFs posted online at different websites until I find a proper vector-based element of the logo. The Zeiss logo probably wouldn't be hard to find at all as a vector element inside a PDF. As for fonts that look ballpark...

CorelDRAW X8 will work under Windows 10. I run it on my personal notebook at home using Win 10 Pro. On my desktop computer at work I have CorelDRAW 2018 and CDR X8 installed (again runing Win 10 Pro). I don't mind at all Corel starting up a subscription based setup for people who don't want to...

I've seen the syndrome go both ways. I've seen people who've taken design classes or even earned art degrees who don't have any real talent. And I've seen people with no formal training produce really good work. Likewise there's plenty of designers who did get formal training or degrees who are...

The squabble between Adobe and Dolby is pretty unfortunate. Thanks to the dispute the encoders for Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus formats were removed from Adobe's audio-video applications that could encode 5.1 or 7.1 surround audio. Now anyone creating a video project with surround sound...

How do you handle "forgot to tell you" mid project? Sometimes a stiff drink after hours helps. Or just go out back in the signs boneyard, look up to the sky and yell, "son of a *****!"

Maybe the company doubles as a kinky heavy metal S&M dungeon for swingers at night.

You need vector-based paths resident in the artwork in order to do both a print and cut operation. That artwork is something I probably would have created within Adobe Illustrator since all of the shapes and lettering have hard edges and the bowling figures are filled with straight gradients...

The sample does indeed look like it is hand-drawn. However, there are lots of OpenType fonts (script, text, display, etc) that have some or lots of alternate characters to make lettering look more custom and not like something generated from a computer font file.

Check the settings you have for your media types. Onyx has the ability to resize artwork as a way to compensate for the way some materials can literally shrink while run through printers that heat up the material to high temperatures. Window perf vinyl is particularly susceptible to shrinkage.

What exactly is the point you're trying to make? Or are you arguing with me just for the sake of arguing? I brought up an obvious long-standing issue that Flexi doesn't properly support OpenType. In response you're here brow-beating me with flurries of nit pick, line by line responses of every...

Buying and using a specific software title is not a form of charity. If that application's developers are not making the appropriate efforts to keep up with their competition those guys cannot expect me to continue being a customer. If there is a better tool out there I can use to do my job I am...

I might have sympathy for that situation if the developer was asked to incorporate a brand new, unfamiliar technology. OpenType is not brand new at all. A lot of mainstream applications are able to use the extended features in OTF files, whether it's a graphics application like CorelDRAW or even...

The RIP functions in Flexi were a later, optional add-on. Even today the RIP-equipped version of Flexi is the most expensive version. Going back to the 1990's the original functions of Flexi were originally geared for designing signs, directly controlling vinyl cutters and creating files for...

I know applications like Flexi are industry-specific niche applications. Still, being niche software is not a valid excuse in this case. Working with type is about as central to sign design as it gets. If anything, this kind of software should be as advanced as any graphics application when it...

Flexi's font tool is more than lacking. It treats advanced OpenType fonts as if they're 256 character fonts made over 25 years ago when we only had basic TrueType and Postscript Type 1 fonts. Flexi doesn't see all the advanced character sets contained in my OTF files. That's a big problem. One...

We have 3 licenses of Flexi at my workplace, but none are used for large format printing. We have licenses of Onyx Thrive for our 2 HP Latex printers and now a license of Rasterlink that came with our Mimaki flatbed printer. Our Flexi applications are mainly used for driving vinyl cutters or...

I haven't seen any serious color control issues with either of our HP Latex printers. Their output is very consistent. On the other hand I do have to wonder about claims that solvent printers don't have any problems printing color consistently, as compared to Latex printers. The Roland VersaCAMM...