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Not directly. But hack-level sign designers sure aren't helping the situation either. Badly designed signs and poorly maintained signs both contribute to BLIGHT. Blight gets a lot of people in a community very angry and ashamed for their town's appearance. When they get mad enough they draft...

That looks like a rough, auto-traced version of this mystery source typeface.

In the case of Sears, its current owners (some idiots running a hedge fund) played all kinds of games with store personnel -literally driving away sales people who built careers there. Then they did as little as possible maintaining the stores. A couple or so years before the Sears in my town...

What is the specific error message that is coming up when you try to import the file? Depending on the nature of the artwork there may be no other choice than to involve the client or whoever created the artwork. Some fixes are pretty simple, such as getting the design to save a copy of the...

Roper Serif is close, but the points on the sides of the letters (like the letter A) are not in the right places.

A great deal of sign people out there can't even manage to create a clean design that satisfies the basics of competent graphic design. The work of past graphic design industry innovators like Paul Rand and Paula Scher are in an entirely different stratosphere. I find little offensive at all...

I need some help identifying the typeface in the attached PNG sample. I've seen the typeface before but I just can't jog my memory enough to remember just what it is! Thanks in advance.

It's pretty difficult to pin down the exact ID of the typeface used for "BAR." It could be an extra-bold variant of Avant Garde or something else. Certain typefaces, such as Futura, have numerous variants from different companies (Adobe, Bitstream, Neufville Digital, etc). None of them are the...

The folks at Blender.org still warn people not to use version 2.8 beta on actual production work since bugs are still present in the program and data loss is a risk. Nevertheless, the 2.8 beta version is overwhelmingly better than any previous version of Blender from the perspective of being...

I still consider it a valid message center simulation. It's certainly more realistic looking than pasting a plain low-res JPEG or TIFF image onto a sign illustration. The results are also more practical to print. Individual RGB LEDs are very tiny in relation to the rest of a variable message...

The problem is these programs don't all have feature parity. Some are practically apples to oranges comparisons. And they're all very different in their abilities to import/export artwork in other formats accurately. If someone is only doing very basic vinyl cutting chores then, yeah, he can...

IMHO, it's generally best to do any kind of cutting or masking of graphical shapes through image backgrounds (such as carbon fiber texture) using a combination of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. If it's just going to be a pixel-based display on an electronic watch face then all the work can be...

I prefer using vector paths in Photoshop as sources for things like beveled objects. The paths can be scaled or modified without any loss of quality. If the resulting bevel effects or other raster-effects being applied are too jaggy looking then change the image's resolution to a higher pixel...

CorelDRAW has a standard price for mainstream graphics software. Every add-on application, utility, etc in the box is included for no extra charge, "freebie add-on" software. Obviously the motivation behind the original question is cutting costs. Why pay for expensive RIP software like Onyx if...

Regarding large format RIP software, I think if someone is going to be doing commercial large format printing they need a proper RIP application, not a freebie add-on for a $400 vector drawing program. Some printers are sold with the RIP included. Our old Roland VersaCAMM came with VersaWorks...

The gradient tool went through a serious update with version X8. It does more to match features of the gradient tool in Adobe Illustrator (which have been there for many years). The fills are more interactive and are not restricted to the boundaries of the object being filled. Gradients support...

The Pointillizer tool is probably my favorite feature of CorelDRAW 2018. Electronic message center display simulation is one handy trick. You don't have to go with the default circles either. I like to create custom rounded square shapes to represent the pixels. The simulated display prints...

Many local sign codes and a growing number of states (such as Texas for example) require people who service electrical signs to have at least a journeyman electrician's license and require companies who manufacture electrical signs to have at least one or more staff to have a master...

You make the notion of working with vector-based artwork sound completely trivial. This is primarily a sign making forum, not a forum about embroidery. The vast majority of us do not spend our time creating stitching patterns from pixel-based images. Some of the production tools we work with...

Taking a screen shot and working with what is really just a pixel-based image of the computer screen rather than the actual native artwork might be acceptable to you, but it is a total non-starter for me. I have to work from the native vector-based artwork. Working with a screen shot would...