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Font Anyone?
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Bourbon by Fort Foundry looks a little like that lettering, but it is proportionately more condensed. The type family can be added via Adobe Fonts.
So-called "AI" doesn't really know how to handle graphics well. It generates mystery meat type rather than lettering that accurately matches any real typefaces. The AI bots/agents bake weird problems into new logos they generate and tend to botch re-creating any existing logos. If they try repeating anything the new result will have differences from the previous result.
So-called "AI" doesn't really know how to handle graphics well. It generates mystery meat type rather than lettering that accurately matches any real typefaces. The AI bots/agents bake weird problems into new logos they generate and tend to botch re-creating any existing logos. If they try repeating anything the new result will have differences from the previous result.
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Found a free download!No offense intended but a lot of these bastard fonts that get recycled through here are just that, “bastard fonts”. They were originally created on spur of the moment via charcoal pencil, snapline and yardstick on side of a building in anticipation of a fitch and One Shot paint. I deal with this crap all of the time, pouring through hundreds of online pages and thousands of fonts just trying to find something that remotely resembles what the client has adopted as their own. It almost always ends with the client either abandoning the old dilapidated font altogether and/or settling for something half ass close and being dissatisfied. It’s frustrating and I’m sure that I’ll get admonished for the negative comments.
I wouldn't fault a business for having a logo/brand created with unique lettering not based on a stock typeface. Big companies do that all the time. But the trick is those big companies usually end up with production-ready, vector-based assets of the logo/brand (along with brand guidelines documents). They don't dig themselves into a hole cooking up the artwork using inappropriate applications or putting their trust into Claude or ChatGPT.
Hi Bobby, not disagreeing with you at all and it’s not so much the bigger corporate brands mixing letter fonts to achieve a unique look. At least these people have the means and resources to provide you with vector art from the get-go. And, my heart is always with the mom & pop small businesses. I get it. I started out painting 4 X 8s in my mom’s garage for less than a hundred bucks.(OUCH!).
But even before AI and programs like Canva came along, end users were dittling and screwing around with what they thought at the time would be a nice look and a catchy storefront sign -totally oblivious to the nuts and bolts of manufacturing and installation. And, some of them actually get pissed when you ask them for vector art or what font(s) they used when creating their logo. At that point I’m thinking just who needs who in this situation?
Anyway, thanks for the reply. This is a crazy industry that we’re in and share.
I think I have a harder time cutting any slack to the small business people who choose to D-I-Y their own logos, graphics, etc -particularly when it involves outdoor signage.
For one thing, so many people out there don't have what passes for elementary school level math skills. Their understanding of basic geometry isn't for squat. They'll want to replace the faces in an existing horizontal rectangular shaped sign cabinet, but they'll create their precious design on a vertical letter sized page. "Aspect ratio? What's that?" We see that problem all the time. It's pathetic.
The next problem is they'll often use the wrong tools to create the artwork. They'll try to use Photoshop, PowerPoint or any other random application that isn't a vector-based drawing program. This is despite the fact there are more than a few decent vector-based graphics applications available for free. Affinity Designer is now a free app. But they insist on using whatever tool they're used to using.
I don't like Canva because it routinely creates garbage files. It's like pulling teeth to get a customer to export a halfway useable PDF file out of Canva. It is possible to create production-friendly artwork in Canva, but that requires the end user to know what the hell they're doing.
Despite all the hype surrounding so-called AI, and business people lusting after the idea of using it to replace countless millions of workers with "agents," the AI stuff largely generates problematic slop in all the industries it touches. I actually have to spend more time vectorizing an AI-generated logo than I do something a human created in Photoshop. That's because I have to correct the odd glitches baked into the artwork on top of creating clean vector shapes.
For one thing, so many people out there don't have what passes for elementary school level math skills. Their understanding of basic geometry isn't for squat. They'll want to replace the faces in an existing horizontal rectangular shaped sign cabinet, but they'll create their precious design on a vertical letter sized page. "Aspect ratio? What's that?" We see that problem all the time. It's pathetic.
The next problem is they'll often use the wrong tools to create the artwork. They'll try to use Photoshop, PowerPoint or any other random application that isn't a vector-based drawing program. This is despite the fact there are more than a few decent vector-based graphics applications available for free. Affinity Designer is now a free app. But they insist on using whatever tool they're used to using.
I don't like Canva because it routinely creates garbage files. It's like pulling teeth to get a customer to export a halfway useable PDF file out of Canva. It is possible to create production-friendly artwork in Canva, but that requires the end user to know what the hell they're doing.
Despite all the hype surrounding so-called AI, and business people lusting after the idea of using it to replace countless millions of workers with "agents," the AI stuff largely generates problematic slop in all the industries it touches. I actually have to spend more time vectorizing an AI-generated logo than I do something a human created in Photoshop. That's because I have to correct the odd glitches baked into the artwork on top of creating clean vector shapes.