Type & Typography

For starters, I am not a graphic designer. I've come to this forum to get assistance from those of you who enjoy doing this type of thing. I'm getting a tattoo this weekend, but need someone to draw it up for me. I tried using GIMP2.6 (which my friend suggested), but could not, for the life of me, figure out how to accomplish what I wanted. I tried downloading both Illustrator and Photoshop (to no avail). This stuff may as well be Hebrew. I'm just not talented at all when it comes to this type of thing. I'm looking to get a tattoo of a triquetra using this verse (And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. I Cor 13:13). The verse itself will be in the form of the triquetra. I don't know how to twist/turn/shape text into a desired shape. If any of you could help me with this, I'd GREATLY appreciate it. I'd like the font to be Lucinda Handwriting. And the image itself can be no smaller than 3"x3" and no larger than 4"x4" (though I'm sure the size ca

Hi I am a noob here but I've got to start somewhere, so here I am. Anyway In Illustrator cs5 how would I take a word like Soup7 and connect the top of the letter S with a line. I have tried the pen tool and i made a box but i had no success because the anchor points werent congruent to the top of the 7 and the the top of the soup.THanks for your help guys.

Installing Adobe Type Manager on 32 bit system gives error message saying need 16 bit system.

I just purchased Officina Sans and installed it with the font manager on my Windows XP system. It shows up in the font manager's list and I can view it and print a sample. However, it does not show up in the font list of Word, Excel, Wordpad, or any other application. Except for Acrobat: It does show up in the text tool property dialog. I purchased and installed Garamond Premier at the same time and it is fine.I tried deleting and reinstalling, but no help. I tried rebooting, but no help. I am running Windows XP Pro SP3. I had one of my coworkers try it on his Windows 7 system with the same result.Has anyone seen this problem before? Do you have a solution?~~ Paul

I am having an issue when I print from Powerpoint to PDF Printer.I have Helvetica fonts. I embeded the fonts.The text that is using the Helevetica fonts is sometimes completely gone (especially when I am using bullet form) and sometimes part of the word is gone.Can anyone help?

Ihave uploaded a screen shot of at font style. Can anyone offer some styles that are close to this? Thanks in advance... Brad

Hi,I'm trying to figure out how to get a dot below the letters H, t, and s in Garamond Premier Pro. The combining mark doesn't seem to work, and the specific glyphs don't exist. Any ideas?Most other fonts seem to work, e.g.:Ḥ ṭ ṣKind regards,Lyndon

Attached is an FDK feature file for Bickham Script Pro (2004 revision). The same code should be informative for FontLab and other applications that use the Adobe OpenType feature language, particularly when it comes to coding of contextual substitutions. NOTE 1: This should only be used as a reference for feature construction, and not for glyph names. The feature file uses "friendly names" which are often changed for final font output. NOTE 2: This is NOT the same as Bickham Script Standard, which is an earlier and much less complicated typeface. The main advantage of looking at the original feature file rather than decompiling in FontLab is that any glyph classes retain their original names. FontLab does an amazing job of decompiling features, but it has to invent names for glyph classes, and these are generally less clear than what was originally used in development. This feature file is "warts and all," so there's even a comment on a bug I found, when going through the feature

Hello-I was hoping someone could answer a few questions regarding font licensing. Specifically, the Letter Gothic Std font, which is covered under Western 2 EULA and allows for PDF embedding and editing.The EULA is a five seat license. Can they be split between desktop and servers?Section 2.3 allows for server use. Can the server generate a PDF, with the embedded font, and then allow the user to download the PDF via the Internet?Does each server within our internal network require their own license? I've tried contacting Adobe directly (Sales, Customer Service, Enterprise) and was unsuccessful in getting my questions answered. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.Regards,ChrisMessage was edited by: ccgonzales

(edited 8/18 to add information) Attached is an FDK feature file for Minion Pro (2004 revision). The same code should be informative for FontLab and other applications that use the Adobe OpenType feature language. NOTE: This should only be used as a reference for feature construction, and not for glyph names. The feature file uses "friendly names" which are often changed for final font output. The main advantage of looking at the original feature file rather than decompiling in FontLab is that any glyph classes retain their original names. FontLab does an amazing job of decompiling features, but it has to invent names for glyph classes, and these are generally less clear than what was originally used in development. Additionally, this feature file represents the very latest, not-even-released-yet revision to Minion Pro. So it shows our most current thinking in various areas, which may be instructive. Even once this version is shipping, not all users will have it. Enjoy! T Thomas

Is anyone able to enlighten me in regard to the legalities around adobe fonts that were originally purchased for print products that have now been pushed out to digital products as well ie. ebooks.  We haven't amended our license to accomodate the shift from print to ebook - do we need to do this or are we ok just continuing as we are?.  Or do we need to upgrade our license restrospectively?

Minion Pro has a "relative" for smaller font sizes-Minion Pro Caption.Is there is sth analogous for the Georgia font-a version of it specifically for smaller font sizes.I searched in Typekit but i found nothing. As a sidenote,what impresses me more is the fact that typekit does not list at all Georgia-a so usual font found in the web today.How can that be?

At least 10 years ago I licensed Optima (I still have the 3.5 inch installation "floppy") and still use it as my primary font--except for an application like InDesign where I must create a PDF file for a Print on Demand vendor. Then all output is gibberish, and I get a message from Acrobat X Pro that some fonts were not rendered correctly. Same problem exists with a simple Word document when exported as a PDF. This worked properly for many years, but no longer. Short of licensing the font again, is there anything I can do?

Our company has been using the Galahad font for a number of years and has purchased more licenses for an expected increase in computers. However, we have been using the PostScript version (Galahad Regular), but the new licenses are for the OTF version (Galahad Std Regular).What we've dicovered is that the PostScript version and the OTF version render differently in Microsoft Office products as well as in WordPad. The OTF version renders with a line spacing significantly taller than the PostScript version. (I have to change the line spacing in Word to "Multiple 0.75" to make it look like the PostScript version.)  The problem doesn't appear in InDesign CS5 or in Quark 6.5.  Is this an Office/WordPad problem, a font problem, or both? (And if it is an Office problem, does anyone know how to fix it or the best way to contact Microsoft about it?)Here's a screen shot. (The on-screen rendering of the 0.75 line spacing also crops the tops of characters, but those characters print corr

When I open the insert text tool the default text pt is 1296, but the cursor that is flashing in miniscule and unreadable?! I cannot also change the colour of the tiny font?! I have no idea why this is happening. When I open a new .psd document to use the text it opens showing that the text is 3500pt, then defaults back to 1296, and once again dissapears???

Many beautiful fonts exist out there in the web. Is it true though that some for them are made just for some languages while leaving out some other?For example if i use a font that is not intended for Greek in a site with Greek words, then no effect will be nade apparent in the typography of the site.The browser will default to some standard fonts.Is there a workaround to the above?It is unforunate having to constrain my typography in 3-4 fonts cause of the fact many good-looking fonts are not for Greek.Someone could argue to use image-i am interestes for the typograpgy of the body text and not of some headline.Thanks

I've just installed a font (Bryant) that has 4 possible styles: Regular, Bold, Light and Medium.The problem is that Photoshop and Flash are recognizing this font but only the regular style...I need to use the bold style but i'm unable to select it (both in Photoshop and Flash) - the only style that appears in the drop down box is the "Regular".Is this some sort of known issue? What can I do to solve this?

I recently bought and downloaded a font, expecting it to be a simple matter of placing it in the Windows Font folder. However, it has both .pfb and .amf file extensions. The website I purchased it from said that I needed Adobe Type Manager, but this is incompatible with Windows 64-bit OS. Is there a solution to this? Many thanks

    I am reading this tutorial here on typography: http://webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Horizontal_Motion/2.1.1/http://In chapter 2.1.1 makes a reference to word spacing, it mentions some general guidelines.The problem is that it stays to them, it does not go any further.It says for example:ideal word space varies from one circumstance to another, depending on factors such as letterfit, type color, and size.Yes, but what type color, letterfit and size.For example, the typography on my site is blue, 12px, and the font is Berlin Sans FB.What is the ideal word spacing given the above details?Thanks.

Hello,we have a strange problem one a few of our computers. we recently upgraded a few computers to Windows 7 with Office 2010.On those computers, when they create a new, or edit an existing document with Myriad pro as font and put in a Watermark, all the text gets compressed on one big pile of letters.when you increade/decrease the size of the font (default is 11) all the text comes back normal. Not thet font size 11 only has an issue. for example. when you create a document with Myriad Pro size 10 and put in a watermark, the same problem occurs. increasing the font to 11 will get the text back to normal.the computers with the issue are all Windows 7 and run Office 2010. i tried it on a non and fully patched Word 2010. both have the issue. i also tried a handfull of other Fonts but none of them have the same issue.also tried it on my own windows 7 office2010 laptop which doesnt run any of their software/plugin's and different anti-virus software. result is the same.Does anyone have an

What is the default Hebrew font on CS5.5 ME?Basically, when I type in Hebrew and have an English font selected the type always comes out the same way and I need to know what font that is.Help!

I'll be taking a job that requires insertion into text of a considerable number of fractions.What font pallet offers fractional notation down through 1/16,1/32,1/64 etc? Fractions should have a superscript numerator over a subscript denomenator, separated by a backslash, instead of a horizontal M-dash. I'll be working largely in MS Word 2004 (Mac) and Acrobat 9 Pro.

I have owned and used a licensed version of Helvetica for a number of years now (typing with one arm since the purchase cost me an arm AND a leg, hehe) - I recently "upgraded" to Windows 7 and reinstalled all of my fonts which all show up other than Helvetica. Helvetica DOES show up in other applications such as Office Word, but not any of my Adobe products. These are Type 1 fonts.

We are trying to organize all of our fonts and we're looking for a list of fonts from font folio 9.  We have found some online but the problem is we want to know which ones are postscript and which are opentype.  No list that we've found shows the difference.  Our next step was to possibly find an older edition of the type reference book since we cannot find that, but we are thinking this still won't help us out.  If anyone has any answers please help.  Thanks!

Does Adobe publish list(s) of fonts by application?  I don't believe it exists, but it would be useful.  I am trying to track down the application that installed Hypatia Sans Pro (for one of my users on their old PC, but now need it re-installed on their upgraded PC).  From a little research, it appeared like it should be included with CS3 Design Premium, but after installing it, the font is still not present.