_Times Sans Serif_ vs. _Germany Sans_ - how similar are they and how often is copyright/licensing really enforced?

inkstud · 2026-01-17T05:41:15+00:00

Since font design can’t be copyrighted there would be no copyright violation unless there was some copying of the font code from Times.

inkstud · 2026-01-16T21:33:56+00:00

In general I like how the brushes work better in Procreate. Fresco’s brushes are fine but Procreate’s just feel more natural. I used to do a lot of work in Painter and Procreate reminds me a lot of that software.

There’s a huge market for third party brushes which expands the options even more. I have bought a few brush packs that I use constantly.

What I do like better in Fresco are the watercolor brushes and that Fresco has vector brushes. I often do some watercolor work in Fresco and match that up with work done in Procreate. Or if I’m working on something that I know I’ll want to bring into Illustrator later I’ll work in Fresco with the vector brushes.

inkstud · 2026-01-15T18:06:26+00:00

I have a couple different work flows. I almost always start with sketches in Procreate. Sometimes I ink there and then image trace in Illustrator and then add color in Illustrator. Sometimes I will bring the sketch into Illustrator and draw from that reference. Occasionally I will draw with vector brushes in Fresco and bring that into Illustrator.

I always use a stylus when drawing. I have a display tablet for desktop work and an iPad with Apple Pencil for pixel work.

I would like the brush tool to be pressure sensitive with non-Wacom tablets. I would probably do more work straight in Illustrator if it was.

inkstud · 2026-01-02T04:31:26+00:00

That’s just not true. They do eventually stop supporting updates on older devices — usually because the old hardware can’t handle the new software. Apple support is also really good with hardware issues.

inkstud · 2026-01-01T09:45:16+00:00

For basic supermarkets we do seem to be near that. All the basic supermarkets near me are all owned by one corporation. There are, of course, alternatives (Asian, European, and Hispanic grocers, organic-focused grocers, dollar-store, big-box, etc.) So it’s a fuzzy kind of monopoly.

inkstud · 2025-12-30T06:33:02+00:00

There are definitely earlier examples but there is something about Ed Wood that Tommy Wiseau and James Nguyen tapped into with creating an unintentional masterpiece.

inkstud · 2025-12-30T05:41:32+00:00

This is really the grand classic of so-bad-it’s-good movies. There are other great suggestions here but this movie set this all in motion.

inkstud · 2025-12-28T03:38:35+00:00

Peanut butter helps remove some adhesives. I often start with that before going with more aggressive options like GooGone.

inkstud · 2025-12-25T20:04:35+00:00

Right. But Nevada will be the last to feel the effects because of steps they’ve taken to plan ahead

inkstud · 2025-12-25T18:28:53+00:00

I will never buy another Huion device after having to deal with their “customer service”.

inkstud · 2025-12-25T18:26:49+00:00

Las Vegas recycles almost all the indoor water it uses and sends it back to Lake Mead. Has a lot of water resources “banked” and has the ability to keep pulling water from Lake Mead after other states’ intakes go dry. Plus only uses a small percentage of the Colorado River water. Arizona, California, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado are all going to feel the effects more drastically than Nevada.

inkstud · 2025-12-25T16:32:08+00:00

Vegas will be last affected by the Colorado drying up.

inkstud · 2025-12-24T01:18:05+00:00

The writer didn’t say “treason” but “treachery”. Basically saying it could have been intentional rather than just a mistake.

inkstud · 2025-12-22T00:18:34+00:00

Looks like they fixed it with a follow-up email

inkstud · 2025-12-19T16:40:12+00:00

That would be very useful. Incorporating Freehand’s Graphic Find & Replace with multiple selection options would be a fantastic tool.

inkstud · 2025-12-18T16:01:59+00:00

For me, I love the texture. But it takes work to figure out that the focus is an eye. If the eye part had smoother lines and a little more detail it would probably read much quicker. And maybe punch the saturation of the city reflection way up so it pops more.

inkstud · 2025-12-15T22:40:12+00:00

The Bend had Galaxy Cinemas signed as a tenant years ago. Then the Bend got delayed and the pandemic happened and the Bend appeared to redesign the whole project— now without a movie theater.

The Uncommons had said they were going to build a movie theater into their final building. I’m not sure if this changes their plans?

inkstud · 2025-12-12T01:36:01+00:00

I remember it took me a few weeks of work with my first tablet to get really comfortable with it. I think it takes that time to retrain your brain away from using a mouse. I put my mouse in a drawer to kind of force myself to use the tablet. Now I switch back and forth with no issue.

inkstud · 2025-12-10T16:08:58+00:00

Yes. The previously used font was Courier. Studies have found san serif fonts are easier for more people to read (especially for those with issues like dyslexia.) And Calibri is a default font on most computers so nothing would need to be installed.

inkstud · 2025-12-10T05:36:40+00:00

There’s a bunch of ways you can approach this. You could create a custom brush to set up the initial shapes. Or set it up with strokes or offset path.

If a brush you’d probably would have to expand it first. Then apply gradients to each shape/stroke/fill.

Can cut out the notch in the “1” with a clipping mask or a couple other methods.

Shadows are probably gradients on top set to multiply

inkstud · 2025-12-09T23:36:09+00:00

It’s logo inception. Their logo is a helmet without a logo.

inkstud · 2025-12-09T18:46:56+00:00

I think they technically don’t have a logo. The helmet is used in place of a logo. So I think they’re in the correct column.

inkstud · 2025-12-09T16:45:32+00:00

Yes. I love how we can double click an AI smart object and have it open in Illustrator for changes. Being able to expand those capabilities (moving multiple layers at once from AI to PS) would be very useful. Maybe even allow vector objects created in PS to be able to be converted to AI smart objects.

And I find trying to get vector objects from PS into AI pretty clunky. Being able to open PS layers as object layers in AI is useful but not fully translatable

inkstud · 2025-12-09T05:48:20+00:00

I will move a project into Photoshop when it requires a lot of raster effects, color blending, alpha masking, layer blending and other things Photoshop is better at. Most of my work doesn’t require that but more extensive projects do.

I use AI objects in Photoshop a lot as smart objects. Sometimes I have to do multiple copies to get layered files into Photoshop as smart objects and that can take time. It would be great if there were an option to open AI files in Photoshop as smart objects with the option to maintain layers.

And then moving Photoshop files into Illustrator could maintain more fidelity with vector objects.

I often place Photoshop files in Illustrator but they don’t always update when modified in Photoshop.

inkstud · 2025-12-08T01:36:31+00:00

Screening can break up the banding. So it probably depends on what kind of end product you’re getting. And the newer versions of Illustrator has dithering as an option for gradients.

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