Member Fan… Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Hi everybody, I draw a logo with a Google font because my client want the same typo on his website and on his logo. So I use "Coustard" : http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Coustard But when I vectorize it with illustrator, it's completly deformed... as you can see in attached file. I never saw it. Do you know a copy of coustard or an other solution to vectorize a typo ? Do you understand what's the problem ? Thank for your support Fanneau {link removed by moderator} Link to comment
Member Jen… Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Yes, the problem is that you are using Typophile to advertise other web sites, also called «spam». Link to comment
Member Fan… Posted February 28, 2013 Author Share Posted February 28, 2013 It's a true question, not a spam. If I can make 2 jobs in the same time it's a way to win some time. 1/ I solve the problem for the logo of 1 client 2/ I create a backlink for another client It's profitable. I don't think it should be a problem. Is it ? Somebody has an idea for my vectorization ? Link to comment
Member Geo… Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 I looked at the font and there are only three of the caps (D, I, T) that are distorting. Your best bet if you are in a hurry is to outline the words you need and fix the outlines. As to why it is happening, I don't have an answer. The outlines look OK to me although the person that made the font got the vertical metrics settings wrong. Notify Google and ask them to fix it. Link to comment
Member jon… Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 "I don't think it should be a problem. Is it ?" Yes, because it has absolutely nothing to do with the question. Link to comment
Member qua… Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 He mentions his employer in his signature; that is not intended as spam. It is a serious problem if fonts don't outline correctly, but in the case of Coustard, it is much less of a problem, since that is a free font. Hence, one's service bureau can be given a copy. In the case of commercial fonts, to obey the license and have it printed, one has to turn the document into outlines so that the font need not be embedded or given to the service bureau doing the printer - and so a metrics bug like that in a commercial font turns the licensing into a fatal obstacle to printing documents. Link to comment
Member rus… Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Are you literally talking about vectorizing as opposed to converting to outlines? If that is the case, the problem is not with the font but the vectorization settings. Link to comment
Member old… Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 It's also possible that the font outlines aren't closed… Link to comment
Member alu… Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 "He mentions his employer in his signature; that is not intended as spam." Sure it is. As admitted by the OP: "I create a backlink for another client" Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Also... "It's profitable." +1 point for honesty. -10 points for spamming. Link to comment
Member apa… Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Hold on, fellas. Do we really want to set a precedent of endorsing spam that piggy-backs on somewhat relevant topics? Link to comment
Member 5st… Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 As a lowly spam slayer, I'd nuke the spam keep the relevant topic. The relevant topic is good for business and frying spam is just good fun. Send the member a warning, then put the member on a spam watch and track their posts. Any further spam ...nuke the member's account. n. Link to comment
Member aba… Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I've emailed vern about this :) Link to comment
Member hra… Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Some people say you can't complain if it's free. But if it helps Google/Adams fix a problem, complain away! :-) And other people -rightly- say there's no such thing as a free lunch... As for Jens's complaint: it is in fact in poor taste to advertise something unrelated. hhp Link to comment
Member ver… Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Blimey! Caught leaving a url signature on typofight. Like all fonts auto-instructed by an early version of ttfautohint, the outlines get hosed when being turned into outlines in certain OSX Adobe apps. Same would happen to output with the instructed TTF's via certain postscript printer drivers. Wasn't a feature to restrict non-web use (nice idea tho!), but a bug. Got fixed, but there's still a few fonts that have slipped the net. Coustard was 're-hinted' some time ago, but maybe not yet updated on certain font servers. Updated version available from vernnobile on github. Won't leave a url, just in case :) Link to comment
Member Fan… Posted March 3, 2013 Author Share Posted March 3, 2013 Strange values but thanks Link to comment
Member Fan… Posted March 3, 2013 Author Share Posted March 3, 2013 Hi everybody, Thank you very much vernon adams : Best typophile. It's perfect now. It's not a 5p@m, it's the solution ! Thanks for the other relevant answers :oldnick : Good idea but it was closedrussellm : I don't know the word in english, certainly "outline". the shortcut in AI is ctrl+shift+o.quadibloc and hrant : I agree with you about free font, I was not complain just search any solutions near to specialist community.George Thomas : I saw yhe same as you, with the C more, but vernon adams find the solution. For Admins I receive you eMail : it's ok. But you offered the possibility to spam very easily : Link to content with some text ... and Allowed HTML tags: ... while Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. I'm sure that the 2 first lines are very usefull for a "footprint"... Link to comment
Member Té… Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 So now you know that the Easy Thing and the Right Thing are rarely the same thing. Link to comment
Member ver… Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Fanneau is right. The problem is with the auto markups that the typophile system forces. Either automatically hyper linked ([email protected]) email adresses are 'spam' or they're a feature of the typophile posting system. Can't be both, surely? Ironically Té is also right, typophile have made something wrongly easy. Link to comment
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