This is a volunteer job with the pickiest clients ever. Now they've changed staff and have a whole new design they want. Grrr, but in for a penny in for a pound.

Tho the final serif on the h is with in italic's style, maybe a variant or a customization

Looks right to me. I think they've just increased the kerning on the Lato. Thanks so much! You nailed it.

Hoping to find these as well

This is another of the same company's divisions which is supporting Make A Wish

This company is supporting Make A Wish foundation and has asked me to volunteer to make some promotional tie in artwork. They'd like taglines to match their logo, which looks like it may have been customized from some font by adding the swirls to its triangular serifs.

Thanks, yeah, the worst of the not futura was the pointed bottom of the W in my font book. I found a demibold that I was able to tweak. They use Futura in most of their content, so the logo was likely some sort of Futura. Thanks again.

Looking to match this font for a poster I'm making for my daughter to present at a conference as a representative of WCS. I need an SVG or a font file but all she has is these pngs from their website. They're not that hi rez so I'm concerned they won't look great blown up to 40" wide.

Thanks, So close but not quite

Anyone recognize this font?

I came to realize that the Italian designer almost certainly modified Barlow to make these. I removed the swashes (anybody know the name of these parts?) and its pretty much identical.

We bought some graphics from an Italian designer, but I don't think they can afford to ask him to do more work, so they've asked me to use the fonts he used.

I've been asked to "use this font" it's cool but never seen it before

I'm not really a font designer, but I have used CS6 Illustrator in the past to convert outlined text so that all of the interiors of letters are supported to make them like stencils for the purpose of making stainless steel laser cut labels in my work. I am now making a copper plaque to go on my sister's gravestone, and there is so much text with the design I have made, that I want to try to convert a whole fontset to this stencil mode rather than doing it a letter at a time. I have a calligraphy font that is working particularly well for this as all of the breaks in the curves can be made to seem natural.

I have installed Fontforge on my mac, but am really struggling with the user interface. The tutorials I have watched and read do not seem to be leading me to the type of techniques I have used with illustrator. Maybe it will be best to do the modification CS6 and then load the svg files into font forge.

I have a deadline (no pun intended) I need to meet, and any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for the info. I'm curious about how the various license selections are interpreted: Free, Free for Personal Use, Shareware, Demo, Public Domain and Donationware. I take it Free for Public use is the more restricted as all commercial use is negotiable.

To be clear, I am not interested in a career as a font designer, and will likely never submit a font here. My interest is purely academic, and as I said in a previous post, mostly related to the way the online sphere is unfolding as a professional medium. I have been excited at the potential the web allows for artists to form authentic, direct communities with their audiences and consumers. This ability to bypass the middlemen who generally take an unfair share of the benefits of the art in exchange for marketing and distribution, seems revolutionary. However it counts on discovering ways to monetize this artist consumer relationship, ways that are, as yet, obviously not in place. It seems a donation model, at least in this font design sphere, is very very far from succeeding in this regard.

But, it also seems to me to be part of a cultural ethic of finders keepers, and that it is possible for people to awaken to the fact that by supporting brands they enjoy, they can foster the growth of those brands and the proliferation of similar content. I'm sure if you, Neale, were actually able to support yourself as a font designer, the quantity and quality of your designs would increase. I think it is in my interest as a consumer to help, with my contributions, the market to evolve in ways that would be more useful to me.

Again, this does not require that even close to all members of the community adhere to the ethos, only some significant percentage. I'm not sure such an ethos has much chance of propagating to that tipping point, which does only need to be a couple of percentage points of the population, but I am really interested in what other models, that may not rely as much on cultural transformation, may allow this authentic relationship transformation to occur.

Ok, data, thanks. At say 1:100000, that still gives the designer whose work I downloaded earlier a total income of $1250. That's not enough to survive, but a start. My other question is what might we be able to do to help change that number? Could we build some sort of competition with levels and badges to reward the more generous? Could we give those who passed some sort of giving threshold extra privileges, could we celebrate them in some other way?

.00001% is clearly not enough. But especially if it became a more broadly recognized ethic to pay an amount commensurate with the value we felt we received, could it become more widely viable?

I teach at a film school, and the potential for filmmakers to be able to support themselves by independent online distribution of their work, just as it is for musicians, and font designers of course, is the holy grail of the network. I am interested in ways it is almost working, and how to improve the returns.

In fact, for musicians, the creation of a brand though free online distribution that can then be monetized by admission to live shows, has become pretty successful, in some case very much so.

Sorry, I don't know the answer, that's why I asked. I meant donation models that work for charities and the like. I belong to the Long Now Foundation, and they give lectures and offer all sorts of stuff with only a donation model.

I wonder how you know that no one is able to support themselves here. I am asking if anyone is able to. I get that you are not, so I take your vote as no, but I'd love to hear from others who have more activity.

Sure there will always be a majority who take and don't give, but with these sorts of volumes made possible by web distribution, even if only 1:100 are generous, one could get by. I gave $5, a bargain for a font, and if only 1% of that 18,000 did the same, that designer would have made $900 in one day, and a million and a quarter since she started posting.

There are numerous donation models that do work in the real world by just this sort of math. You say "certainly not", I'm curious how you know that.

I love fonts, and was ecstatic when I found dafonts. I've sent a couple of bucks to a few designers, but mostly don't. Today I noticed that the designer to whom I sent money had had 25 million downloads, 18,000 just yesterday. WOW. I wonder how many users do give money, and how many, if any, designers are able to make a living posting fonts for free online, asking only for donations.

I have hoped that the wisdom and generosity of crowds would make it possible to survive doing open-source art. Steven King experimented with a voluntary pay model, and abandoned it. With download numbers like 18,000/day, it does not take a very large percentage of the users being generous to make it a viable profession.

Are any of you making it, or know anyone who is? Are there ways we can inseminate a spirit of generosity or obligation in online communities so that more artists could being to be able to support themselves with their art?