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Oracle Logo Font: Custom Lettering, Lookalikes and Vector Recovery
What font is the Oracle logo? Why the wordmark is best treated as custom lettering, how to check vector files, and what redrawing and permissions involve.
Avenir Font Download: Where to Get It Legitimately and What Logo Designers Need to Know
Avenir is a commercial typeface, not free software. Learn the legitimate ways to get it, how licensing affects logo work, and how font choice affects vector logo files.
Free Envelope Mockup: What It Is and How to Preview Your Logo on It
What a free envelope mockup gives you, how vector logos behave inside a PSD template, and what to check in the license before you use one.
Logo Preview in Website Headers
What a website header logo mockup checks, how it differs from other logo previews, and why vector artwork, embedded raster images and raster previews matter.
UL Logo Design for Favicons: Building a Monogram That Holds Up at Small Sizes
What a UL monogram favicon is, how it differs from a full UL logo, how to choose the symbol, and how to prepare vector source files for favicon use.
Cheers Font Identification: What Can and Cannot Be Confirmed
Trying to identify the Cheers font? Learn why logo lettering differs from a typeface, how to compare letterforms, and how to verify a vector Cheers logo before using it.
Blackletter Font: What It Is, How Its Styles Differ and What It Means for a Logo
An overview of blackletter type: its main styles, how it differs from other gothic and script lettering, how to identify it in a logo, and what to check in vector files and licenses.
What Color Is Indigo?
Indigo is a deep blue that leans toward violet. Learn where the name comes from, why its exact value varies, and how to define indigo in a vector logo palette.
Adjust Spacing Between Letters in Word
How to expand, condense and kern letter spacing in Microsoft Word, how to diagnose uneven spacing in order, and what this means if the text is a logo wordmark.
Phillies Font Identification: What the Wordmark Is and How to Source It
The Phillies script is custom lettering, not an off-the-shelf font. Learn how to identify the wordmark, tell official vector art from recreations, and check usage rights.
How to Add a Favicon in HTML
Add a favicon in HTML with a few link tags in the page head, and prepare vector logo artwork so the icon stays legible at very small sizes.
Avatar Papyrus Font Identification
Is the Avatar logo set in Papyrus? How to recognize the typeface, why the title artwork differs from the stock font, and how to judge vector files and licensing before use.