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I was given the task to engrave an inscription in this font:
Click image for full size
But I have no clue what is written in it nor what font it is written in... Can anyone help me discover what font was used here? Thanks
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I'm trying to come up with a scheme for emphasizing parts of a document. I want something more then just using an italic font as it could be a couple of paragraphs.
Other parts of my document have strong emphasis as shown in the example below for a Requirement. I need another way to emphasize text; it needs to stand o... |
If I have a 2D die-line of a product. What's the quickest way to turn it into a 3D mock-up? Preferably it should output to a popular 3D format like 3ds Max.
Here's an example of the kind of dieline I'd like to fold into a 3D image.
Sketchup looks good, but it costs several hundred dollars for commercial use. Is there... |
I'm trying to figure out how to export multiple layer comps to a single psd in Adobe photoshop cc. When I use the "layer comps to files" script it exports each layer comp to it's own psd.
Much thanks.
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I have a video and I want to create the animated GIF from the part of the video using adobe photoshop CS6. When I select the frames and generate the GIF by setting the option of loop forever it works fine. But when I generate the GIF by setting the option of loop once, the generated animated GIF doesn't work in firefox... |
How to draw an icon with rough background like that:
Is it possible to do this with some fill tool?
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I am attempting to alter the letter "e" in the font Arial. I want to match it in similarity to the "e" in Helvetica where the top of the tail is flat.
I am using the direct selection tool but yet the curvature of the "e" changes slightly. Is there a way to flatten the tail without modifying the curvature.
Here is an ... |
I'm having issues since I upgraded my CS Suite with copying vector files to photoshop as a smart object and then saving for web as a png 24. The files look quite pixelated even though they are sharp in illustrator. The file is 152x152 pixels at 72dpi.
I've tried:
Ticking anti-alias
Changing my settings in illustrato... |
I have a compact left navigation menu that I've developed but I can't seem to get the coloring/depth just right with the different levels it has.
At the basic level it looks like:
When you expand the second level:
The last menu expand ( typically not used ):
I want to illustrate a clean menu, I've played around wit... |
How to Convert a low quality Image into High quality Image in Adobe Photoshop?? Anyone Helps!!!!!
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Is there a way to center your view screen to content of the layer. So when you have lots of layers and you want to know what does this layer belong too and is not named to give a hint. Then can't you just hold some key click it and it will take you to the content.
It'd be very useful. If there is a script to do it..I'd... |
I am willing to know the appropriate resolution for making panaflex print of about 5ft by 6ft or higher as billboard print.
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So I'm trying to cut an image out of a solid background in Illustrator CS5 (Mac). I do this fairly often and my typical workflow is to:
Place the image to be cut out on top of the background
Group the image to be cut out if there are multiple pieces
Select the top image and the background and use Minus Front on the Pa... |
Is there any way to batch trace images located in a directory with High fidelity option?
I created an action including open an image, image trace it with high fidelity option, save it as PDF and close. However, when I batch do the tracing for images in a folder, the output is only black and white ones. I reckon the op... |
I work in CorelDraw CS2 on a PC and just accidentally deleted my color palette on the right side of my project page.
It has all custom colors I've added over the years for projects and is actually a different set of colors found in the fill tool on the left. How can I recover this palette?
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I've created a hue/saturation level adjustment in Photoshop CS6.
Now I have a timeline with 2 frames. I want the second frame to have a different "Hue" value:
As I change the slider, the change is propagated to all the frames in the timeline. Is there any way to prevent this?
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I made an icon via combining multiple layers of shapes by using magic wand, rectangle tool and circle tool, all this in PSD.
Now, how can i convert that into a vector SVG that can be used on a website or mobile app?
I've looked at some similar questions such as this and this but because I'm a developer that is new to... |
I often find myself in a situation where I'd like to check how an image would look like without the text embedded in it. I'm not interested in a neat result, just something rough but super quick and easy.
Is there a plugin or something to achieve just that?
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Sometime I just stuck at a point and my mind doesn't work for the designs. Then I go to google and find the things related to my project. Is it a good approach?
Sometime( knowingly or unknowingly) I also try to follow the design I find on Google.
Is this a good thing to do? I don't know why, but i don't feel comfortab... |
Here's a picture from the walking dead:
How do I easily repeat a face (in this case, Rick's from the Walking Dead) thousands of times in the pattern shown below? The path doesn't need to be exactly the same; it's just the general idea of a serpent-like path (if that even makes sense).
I've tried doing it manually. Be... |
I'm kind of new to this stack exchange thing so please bear with me!
Anyway, I'm trying make a ribbon on Illustrator.
Upon making this ribbon from basic shapes and combining them with the Shape builder tool, I end up getting these really messy/jagged corners, and I have no idea what to do and how to fix it...
Any tip... |
I am creating something for print that will be 160.472"w x 89.764"h. I'm not sure where to set these dimensions in Illustrator and set the dpi.
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I actually made up this solarization effect, but it's based off a simple algorithm I hadn't seen before. The answer below explains how to get it:
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I was wondering how the 2D animations in a real life video is made? Like this one
http://www.adobe.com/in/solutions/digital-analytics.html - (watch the first video). There are many animations which are done in relative to real life objects.
How these are done? What software are suitable for these?
I didn't found any t... |
I'm trying to get the image on the left a size that will fit inside an image mail merge I have created in Microsoft Word. The length for the image "box" in Word seems to be 358px long when I measure it, while the length of the image in Photoshop is over 400px. I'd like to get the 400px down to 358px, but I'm also havin... |
As an extension to my last question, I just discovered the image processor script in CS6 to batch resize images. Seems simple enough - I apply to a folder with these settings:
And yet the output for the few screenshots I have saved in that folder is all over the place!!
Not only are all these images (and they're defi... |
I have an old Freehand file I have imported to Illustrator cs4 and then open and save with Illustrator cs6.
In Illustrator cs6 most of the text boxes have problems. The text overflows the text boxes, I mean that part of the text cannot be seen. For instance logos are without the last letter. If I adjust the text boxes... |
I am trying to create a vertically and horizontally repeatable stained glass image using Photoshop CS5 and I have applied Drop Shadow, Bevel and Emboss, and Pattern Overlay effects to the one layer that I am using. After saving the image, I noticed that when I tile the image there is a single pixel border on the right... |
I have a bunch of images (they are in-game screenshots) that are "watermarked" with the GUI (there are controls, stats, etc.) and I want to select the pixels consistent accross all of them. I messed with it in Photoshop and managed to somehow separate the GUI by loading the images into stack and setting modes of all la... |
I'm in a corporate marketing department that has LOADS of logos for our main brand and all of our sub brands, departments, divisions, etc. The logos are typically the family name and the sub division under it (SMITH Brokerage, SMITH Administrative Services, SMITH Benefits... The name has been changed to protect the inn... |
I am trying to create a pdf doc through Indesign. When I put an icon in the document, it gets pixelated. This is how I put the icons in indesign:
ctrl + D and placed the icon.
I've tried this too: view > Display Performance > High Quality Display.
After doing this icon looks a bit nice in the indesign but looks very ... |
I'm new to illustrator. I just want to ask how and what is the best way to make selection of certain part of shape in illustrator. Currently i'm just using pen tool and it's quite messy. In photoshop we can use the quick selection tool. Is there similar tool like that?
For example i can easily make selection of the bea... |
I would like to remove (like in cut away) a circular portion from a rectangle, leaving an open object. Tried using the Path > Difference tool, but it results in a closed object.
Attached image (screen shot from Inkscape, edited in MS-Paint so looks bit crude), explains what I am trying to achieve.
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I did a File > Place in my Illustrator document, and it is displaying the X frame over the thing, even after I press Enter.
Unfortunately, I cannot select the text box or do any of the stuff I want to do on top of the image I am trying to place.
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I need to scale an image up quite a bit and would like better results than the normal resampling... I remember a few years back in these situations I would use AlienSkin BlowUp at a place I worked at and it was pretty good.
As there are a few plugins out there, I was wondering which are the better ones to invest in no... |
I received permission to make some changes to the company's website. All I've done so far is change Font Color and Background Color. Doing so though made drastic changes in leading (line-height) and kerning (letter-spacing).
I'm really not the greatest at web design, and have never gone from a dark background to a ligh... |
What might this typeface be? It's used throughout this video. I'm primarily looking at the 'A', 'V', and 'W'. Any similar fonts would be great.
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I'm trying to identify the font used in this heading from one of my son's DVDs:
Whatthefont wasn't even close. Identifont wasn't either. Not one of the fonts either suggested had curved lines on the A and l. The i looks almost like Futura Extra Bold, but it's missing the whimsical curves and many of the letter forms l... |
I have lot of objects which are bounded by opacity mask.
I need to get rid of my opacity mask, clipping each object where it intersects with my mask. It is a lot of hassles to do it manually.
Is there some other easy way? Some automatic clip of all objects?
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I am not an expert photoshop user but have been trying to use more of it in what I currently do.
I have a black and white image from
which I am trying to remove all the white.
I cannot use the magic wand/delete
because the white is in literally hundreds of places and in some cases very tiny.
Is there a method to str... |
I have come to notice that certain HSV noise filter values applied to a uniform background colour look horrible when viewed on an LCD screen under certain viewing angles. This is more noticeable on (cheap?) laptop/notebook screens.
Here are two contrasting specimen, made with the GIMP HSV noise filter for the RGB colou... |
When I upload a GIF in Photoshop CS4, a window pops up that says "This is an animated GIF. You can only view one frame. Saving over this file will result in a loss of information." I clicked "OK", but then saw that the layer was named as "Index" and that the layer was locked. And, it only had one layer.
I've read in an... |
I just finished developing a game for Windows Phone 8, and now I'm searching for some optimization. In particular, since I don't understand much about graphics design, I payed a guy to make me animations of a guy, but I've done the rest by myself. I'm not satisfied about colors in my game.
The game colors, essentially ... |
Does anyone know how to create this black and white pattern overlay effect in photoshop? I've tried the film grain filter and the half tone pattern filter and I haven't been able to create the sharpness or clarity of the pattern in this image.
p.s you might need to zoom in on the to see it.
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Found many tutorials to create 3D text (extrusion, shadow, bevel effect etc.), but that is not what I am looking for. What I am looking for, is a way using which I could use text as "skin" to wrap over any arbitrary object.
The simplest example I can think of, is the HTML5 logo:
...where the numeral 5, is wrapped as ... |
I am trying to achieve something like this:
Ref: https://www.flickr.com/photos/arkworld/481557288/in/photostream/
The guy who designed the above image said he used the bas relief PS filter and didn't use the high pass filter. Although when I try it with this image:
I cannot achieve the desired effect:
This is the c... |
I am trying to batch process images that need to be cut into multiple smaller images. I have an action that opens an image, then selects a portion of it, copies, creates a new image, pastes, then saves that new image, closes it, goes back to the original, copies a new portion...and so on
It properly cuts the original i... |
I've made a map in inkscape and now need to change it to a bitmap or .png. The map will be interpreted by a computer program which will look for exact colors so the edges need to be crisp. when I export a .png with inkscape, use an online file converter or even take a screenshot it is always anti-aliased. help.
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Is there a free software to draw following in ubuntu? How to color the overlap zone? I am not able to figure this out in GIMP.
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None of the answers worked for me. My question is simple. In CS6 I want to create a rectangle box with rounded corners and a border. Can anyone answer it in a simple way that WORKS?
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I am doing a project in my woodwork class and I need to split a design (in Illustrator) into multiple parts so that it can fit into the laser cutter.
This is the design i used:
Next I simply put it into Illustrator and deleted the pieces on it (after a live trace) and ended up with this:
Now I have finalized that, I ... |
I have created a pattern from 2 rectangles with different colors, selected both and moved them to swatches.
After applying this pattern to a desired object, I would like to scale the pattern smoothly so I can fine tune my work. How would I do that?
I know I can scale the pattern when creating it, but how can I do it a... |
I'm doing a logo design and these messy lines appears after using shape builder tool in Illustrator. See the image. It's the faded lines on the intersections between the P and the A. I have tried several things but cannot get rid of them. And they mess up the clean look.
Anyone able to help would be awesome. Thanks!
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I am trying to set a solid ( non 4 colour ) black in Photoshop. I am able to do this successfully; however if for instance I create a shape or a piece of text using my 100%K black all is well until I go back in to check the fill colour and then into the colour picker ... and without touching anything in there the colou... |
I've done about 6-8 hrs of sketches and colored illustrations for a client and believe it was time to introduce a contract before continuing any further illustration work. It's generally an uncomfortable thing to do (especially it's for a close friend) but we're both working on a professional project and deem appropria... |
I'm attempting to import an EPS file into GIMP, but it fails. I'm running v2.8.19, and I've installed Ghostscript 9.14 (I think that's the version).
I've also gone through setting up the System Variable and verified the path. I did notice there were 2 versions of the 64-bit GS file, one ending with "c" and the other no... |
I am looking for a simple way to resize the position of elements of a group of elements in one dimension, without resizing/distorting the individual elements.
I.e. I have a simple scatter graph (circles as points) and need to resize it in the y-domain. If i do the usual resizing, all circles will be resized in the y-do... |
I'm working on a piece in process black (or possibly PMS black 7) and silver (metallic PMS to be defined) and want to include a photograph as a duotone. I've read around about metallic inks not behaving like usual inks. What are some issues I should keep in mind when working with metallic inks in duotones? What are way... |
What font is used in '&' on the image below -
It'd be a great help to know, thanks for any help. :)
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I'm having a hard time trying to find the best way to produce an SVG that maintains it's quality through scaling. The actual size of the image is the medium one which is pixel-perfect in Illustrator. However, once I save it as an SVG, the right-most vertical line becomes blurred. What can I do to produce a better quali... |
I'm trying to animate a few images as simple gif. The images contain one human, a red balloon and a green background. The background seems to be dominating. The face is made of only a few colors, and looks pretty ugly.
WIs there a possibility to select certain areas of the image that should be more dominant when auto-g... |
I want to make an A4 saddle stitch booklet(A3 spreads). I am confused as to what paper size I would have to use. I would have to include crop marks and bleed and if I printed on A3 would I have to shrink the spread to include space for crop marks and bleed?
I guess I am just confused as to whether the crop marks and bl... |
Can I know how to change the manipulator from the current local status to global? Unable to do it via clicking right button and getting the local/global options (the option doesn't appear). Please help Thanks.
This is how the manipulator currently looks. I want to adjust it to global so that the green arrow points stra... |
In order to avoid to align more than 100 circles manually I'd like to automatically align them on a path which has the form of a character. Can I find predefined paths somewhere for those characters? Paths would be different for all sorts of fonts, so I'm looking for a well known one or a generic way to produce the pa... |
I'm designing a logo which is somehow related to Talent. What symbols or colors can (or are good to) represent Talent?
By talent, I mean a natural ability to do something well. I already have something like a bean in my mind and I saw star, medals and young boys/girls symbols. I just want to know other symbols.
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I’ve just made this logo for a client. I hit on the idea of making the dd of “saddle” a bicycle. But the client also liked the mock up of the saddle with call out sign (to the right of Swag).
Now the client wants to use both of these ideas and I’ve added them together to make a complete logo. I was just wondering wheth... |
I have designed a logo and a website for a company.
Because I took a little longer than usual (3 weeks), they are talking about hiring someone else.
I delivered the designs, (10 Logo Designs with at least 50 variations) and a website design. If they hire someone else, all my effort has gone to waste.
Should I still ask... |
I do a lot of scribbling with pen & paper and for the upcoming month I will exclusively work on a design for a project, where the color palette is already fixed. Thus it would be great to have colored pencils in almost, if not exactly the colors of that palette (the colors are given in hexadecimal).
My question is now,... |
I just came to realize this problem with chapter titles in my thesis.
I'm using small caps for them, but I also noticed that (because I'm use to it) I wrote them in titlecase, e.g.:
However, if I use a long chapter title, I'm not so sure if it looks ok...
Since I'm not a graphic designer, nor my aesthetics are very g... |
I'm new to Photoshop, and currently using Photoshop CC. I'm trying to do the following:
Draw an ellipse
Making the ellipse diagonal
How can I do that?
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In Adobe Photoshop CC, say that we have filled some shape with white, how can we fill the rest of the image with black? In other words, how can we make a binary image?
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In this question, a user asks how he can create a vector image that scales down smoothly.
Pixel hinting is the solution:
Anti aliasing treats every edge like a nail, smashing and smoothing
without restraint. Unless you give hints!
How it's done...
First, open the document containing the vector shape you’d want to... |
I have a workflow tree end users can build to:
Define conditions for execution
Perform action on condition met
Currently the UI looks like:
with blue being 'condition' and green being 'action' and root is orange.
Viso and other tools often represent the condition as a triangle, in order to represent the text correct... |
I have an image and i want to convert it to a pixel image where the pixels are definite in it! I want to it be like this:
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I'm learning how to use Photoshop's pen tool. Now that I have a path in my PSD, I'm having trouble dealing with my unrelated layers. For example, I select a layer on the layer palette, then when I try to resize that layer by hitting CTRL+T, the path gets selected as the thing I want to resize. How do I ignore that path... |
I am trying to understand various aspects of spot colours. If I am working in photoshop and I use say a pantone colour for a part of my artwork (in my CYMK file) ... lets suppose I've used it as the colour for a logo which is overlaid on top of a full colour image ... and then export this as a PDF and give to my printe... |
I have a background in my CYMK photoshop document which is mid to dark grey and is made up of C69 M60 Y56 K66 ( it came from rgb 36 36 36) ... I have calibrated my monitor but when I print this out it looks completely different to what I expect. There is light text overlaid and the background prints so much darker than... |
What is this effect called? Is it film-grain? It kind of looks like but the grains are bigger. Thanks a lot in advance.
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What is the font used in this ad?
ADD other symbols
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I'm currently sorting out a proposal for an in-house web app build, and design is a factor that I'm thinking through. I expect there's minimal budget for design, but I want it to look good, so some tips here might help me organise a good-looking app for cheap!
Now there's lots of advice out there for website design, bu... |
Here is a task: I have excel file with table (for example columns are Name, Number and Address) and dimloma template. How can I automate filling my template and save all done diplomas to different files? Which way is the best to do this?
I currently working in Corel Draw. Corel Draw have Print Merge, but it's working w... |
I want to create an image which I can use as a texture in OpenGL. The image is a jpg that comes in red.
In my OpenGL I want to be able to change the red color to any other color the user selects, for this i thought the best solution was just to discard the rgb channels from the original image and only use the alpha cha... |
Yes, I know that I shouldn't make links and text the same colour. But I am restricted by corporate guidelines. On the whole site, I am only allowed to use the company's shade of blue with a few variations in lightness, and shades of pure grey. I am also allowed the use of a very saturated orange as an "accent colour". ... |
I am trying to setup my Cannon mp280 printer to get an idea of how artwork will print at a commercial printer.
When I print a document I can set the quality to low/medium/high. I presume it's best to set this to high. I can use photo paper and set the paper type accordingly, so I would do this too. There's also a phot... |
I concerned that having certain type of personality, ie. certain type of design and showcased work would put off potential clients as they would think i am not the person they are looking for.
For example, Suppose I can make most of the other designs as web designer but I can also make web designs geared toward kids sp... |
Can somebody please help me in identifying the font used in the image. I had no luck with WhatTheFont. Notice that corners are a bit rounded. The letters serve on a large poster. Eventually I'd like to use that font on OS X so a good match with one of its available fonts would be best for my purposes.
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When you apply strikethrough or underline to text in Illustrator you can't define the color or weight of that line. Is there an easy way to do this? Maybe using an effect and saving that as a style?
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I got back a short run print job from a commercial digital printer recently. The background was designed as a block color, not a gradient or patter or anything, just all the one color; but when printed there were strange lines in it. The lines are very subtle but are definitely present, and quite obvious when you look ... |
I don't have an actual project, but I saw this photo today
And noticed that even thought the person is in front of a white background, their jacket still allows them to look relatively flat, and blended in, like a pile of wet leaves. If someone were half-looking at the photo, they may not even realize that's a person.... |
I'm creating a short promo video for a mobile app using After Effects. It's going to be used only on YouTube. I'm trying to show the actual layout of the app, but the menus are all along the left and top edges.
Do I need to worry about making all the content in the Title and Action Safe areas, if it's only going to be ... |
I asked a question here on GD after which I decided to read a book.
As a non-native English speaker, there are a lot of new terms for me to learn, and it seems that I might have used the wrong term image in my question Do we perceive images in text reading order. The term graphic, diagram or drawing would probably suit... |
I just want there to be even leading between lines in my text box, but the leading between the first two lines is always greater even when I change the leading from Auto to a fixed number. I have also revealed hidden characters and there are Paragraphs between all my lines, so it isn't like a soft return issue. Not sur... |
How can I change this monochrome map of Europe...
...into mosaic squares, with the pixels offset by a fixed width?
I asked this question but I couldn't find a suitable answer. I hope that you can help me with this.
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I am new in Game Development and I want to know what Softwares can help me to create Good animations for my 3rd Person Character.
Thanks in advance! :D
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When I draw human figures from reference, my drawing looks wrong but I can see what went wrong and (hopefully) correct it by looking at the reference.
However, when I draw human figures from imagination, my drawing just looks wrong, and I have no idea why.
What are some tips for successfully transitioning between "draw... |
I'm trying to export a PostScript file of a book design in InDesign with pages arranged for a saddle-stitched book using the Print Booklet feature. The problem i'm having is this:
Print Booklet shows a warning saying that the booklet doesn't fir the current paper size. The preview shows the landscape design rotated to... |
I am typesetting a book in a combination of PMN Caecilia (body text) and FF Clan (headings and other minor things).
In this book appears exactly one work in Greek: μαῖα. It appears in a footnote (which are set in Caecilia). Unfortunately, Caecilia—or at least the version of it that I have—does not support Greek, so I n... |
Why does this happen and how do I prevent it?
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It's oh-so-very close to Avenir, but is just a little different from the cuts I saw:
I also found it to be close to Benton Sans, but that doesn't quite hold up either (the 'k' shows it here, but the 'G' elsewhere that I'm excluding for the sake of discretion doesn't match either):
Any thoughts?
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I am trying to get a clean look yet not give up detail when displaying quite a bit of addresses.
Here is the current method using toggling:
But from a user looking at this, they can't tell which center or location
they are looking for. Thus it is quite hard to find the place they want.
I am open to any ways to display... |
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