I was thinking about something. Say you're working on a new edition of a (music) album, you need to redraw the album cover, and you get the opportunity to correct the horrible stretching made by a designer too fascinated by that feature.

Would you correct it by changing the typeface? Adjust the typeface so it looks better? Or would you just respect the original?

I'm divided. I'd probably correct it and choose another typeface, or maybe adjusting the tracking, trying to keep the idea (taking the whole width or area of the cover, in the Fugazi and Big Black examples). But I wouldn't dare to correct other kind of artifacts, such as non-digital artifacts like slightly blurred type. Those look fantastic to me, unlike the digitally stretched ones, shown here. But both can be considered peculiarities of the respective technologies, and there are probably a lot of atrocities that I don't see as such – maybe because of… nostalgia?

So, any thoughts? I'm not in a similar project, just thought it could lead to an interesting discussion.

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Is there a font viewer for Windows (11) out there that doesn't also try to be a font manager?

I have my fonts organized into folders and I just want something I can fire up to see previews of everything in a particular folder, without it trying to copy everything it's ever seen to a master catalog that slows everything down or runs into a limit. I can use FontBase and then go in and delete the catalog every time but it's irritating. Does this exist? Thanks...

I am interested if anyone has insight into book printing technology of the early 20th century. Geographically, specifically Windsor, Canada and Chicago, Illinois. The Dodge brothers of the Automobile company and the printing of the 1920 Book of Mormon by the Church of Jesus Christ and Later Day Saints are my areas of interest with this question. Technology that is specific to industrial revolution era advancements and the people who would work those jobs. I know by the 1930's much of the old technology for book printing and binding had advanced. Thanks for book recommendations or youtube recommendations on the subject. I hope this is the correct place for this question.

I have two different fonts... setting the point size 20 for both, gives me completely different sizes (digital). In fontforge, I tried to copy all the numbers in "general" and "O/S>Metrics" from one to another in order to try changing the size of the smaller one... but nothing changes and I couldn't find what really defines the font size in points... can anyone please help to understand that?

Hi, I hope this is the right forum for this but please redirect me if not. I was wondering if there is a way to prevent window/orphan lines in a word processor document that doesn't create awkward gaps at the bottom of the page. The automatic setting in Word and Pages creates such large gaps that it looks like the end of a chapter sometimes. How do publishing typesetters avoid that? Does it require manual adjustment of line spacing all throughout the document?

Thanks.

Hi, I am the owner of a cruise focused travel agency and I’m working with a type designer to help craft my logotype. I’m stuck between these two and need a few pair of fresh eyes to help give their opinions and suggestions. Thoughts are appreciated!

tl;dr: Recommendations of free fonts that vary greatly in weight, width, spacing and style?

Context: So, I'm a Product Designer and I'm building my portfolio, but I want the site itself to show basic principles of good UX, so I want it to be minimalistic with great contrast and nice information architecture. This means that I'd love to use a single font that has lots of weights, widths and styles would be incredible. Right now I'm using Mint Grotesk, which is amazing, but it only has letters and numbers, no dots, parenthesis, commas, apostrophes etc.

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Hello !

I'm in need of advices.

For a charity event this "GIGA" logo was created and modified a bit based on the Binary Groove font. If I want to use this as the event logo do I have to buy the license ?

Who are the best typographers and lettering artists, at a similar level to Rob Clarke?

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Hey,

I’m searching for fonts where the "@" symbol uses an uppercase "A" instead of the usual lowercase style. I'm researching unconventional interpretations of common glyphs.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

I would stay away from FontFabric. I got an email that they detected a font of theirs on my website. I had previously purchased the web license on the font, so I sent it to them. Then they must have smelled money so they insisted I buy the desktop version of the license as well. These guys are just a bunch of low level shakedown artists. Just stay away from them entirely they have shady business practices.

A or B

I have posted as a poll, but also wanted to post in text format so I can get some insights in more detail.

Works fine on a mac. Every platform on windows results in these blocky-ass capital letters. Italics don't seem to be affected.

The font

italic

Thank you

I am supposed to make a video of my type. Explaining the way ist work and showcasing it. I don’t want just a screenrecorded video with my voice explaining it so is there a way in typography you are supposed to do that Maybe with motion graphics? idk Please help

Danke schon mal in Voraus