When doing fonts for graphic design, do you have to make your own fonts or is it okay to borrow from pre exsisting ones if you are working professionally? I'm not a graphic designer (yet) so please excuse me if this is a dumb question, but I was curious. I can draw, but it's so hard doing digital lettering. I want those clean modern (or just any other font in general) letters I see in professional graphic design and I just can't copy it. Do I have to learn how to hand curate a professional font to be successful?

First time redditor here. I watch the show and have been having conflicting feelings on some recent events that concern me about my mother. I saw something about a want for a long post, so this one is for you.
Background: I have been no contact with my parents for nearly a year, due to my deteriorating mental health while in contact with them. I have been diagnosed with severe/moderate anxiety and depression for awhile now, as well as PTSD and with a history of occasional panic attacks. My father has been abusive to me (all ways except sexually) throughout the years and my mother caters to him a lot. She has a history of abusive partners. Since I was a small child, my parents started isolating themselves from family/friends. My father suffers from a slew of physical illnesses and is not able to cope well on his own, whether it is with daily tasks or dealing with interpersonal relationships.
A big point of contention between my father and I has been the revelation of the existence of my half sister when I was about of legal drinking age. I never knew. I had my first boyfriend during this time. One day, my father went into a fit of rage when he feared I would get pregnant and become a young parent like he was, to which he spilled the beans. It was very traumatic for me. Ever since, I have an irrational fear of pregnancy, despite being on reliable birth control, and desired to contact my sister. I have a half brother who I grew up with all my life, so the news shook me and I want to form another similar sibling bond because I have the best big brother, who I always brag about since childhood.
A couple years later, my sister reached out to me during a shift of my first post-college job. However, it quickly turned ugly. My sister and our father got on bad terms and he no longer wanted me to be in contact with her. I was adamant to know my sister and my nephews, especially since I felt I didn't have much other family I was involved with anymore. I only had bittersweet memories of them and desired to make more good ones. I was so young, I could no longer remember their names in order to contact them and felt scared to ask. At the time, I was living with my parents during the heated arguments about my sister, which spanned over the course of several days. One morning before work, my father burst into my room while I was dead asleep in yet another fit of rage and he pursued a physical altercation towards me and damaged my wall with his fist. I snuck out after he left since I had work. My mother updated me he implied he was suicidal, to which she was skeptical of the validity of this since he apparently threatened this before. I soon left the family home to live on my own after much tension in the household. I lost contact with my sister.
Fast forward to the year of the height of the pandemic, my sister reached out to contact me again and we've been in touch ever since. Then a year ago, a disgruntled abusive ex of mine spilled the beans to my father about our contact to hurt me, despite my ex agreeing with me to not include my father about this information yet. I was in the process of making plans with the help of a therapist with a particularly helpful specialty in this specific situation (medical illness management, family therapy, etc) to tell my parents about the relationship between my sister and I. My father is convinced she is out to get me because he believes she is like her mother, who he does not have a good relationship with. I did not feel like my parents were in a good place to be receptive to the news, due to getting over the fear of the pandemic and my father's poor health. He does not handle stress well at all and has had countless near death experiences with his health alone due to stress, among other triggers, so I was concerned and wanted to be very cautious. I feel this is an important note; his emotions are greatly affected by his physical well being. To name a few, he has general neuralgia, Graves disease, chron's disease, ulcerative cholitis, stiff man's syndrome, lupus, arthritis, etc. It is very difficult to live with all this, so I do try my best to be understanding while also making healthy boundaries.
Over the course of the next year or so, I have tried to work on the relationship between my parents and I. It was miserable. My sister and I felt manipulated to organize a meetup, only to be gaslighted by accusing us to have ill intentions, on and off. It was a lot of emotional abuse. Texting rants would be sent to my phone during work or late into the night; of legal threats, threats of serious mortal harm to my sister, to her mother, to estrange me from my mother and brother, to cut me out of his life too many times, etc. I would cry at work. My boyfriend at the time (current fiance) grew concerned whenever I would visit because he didn't know if I was going to make the 2 hour trek home crying inconsolably or not. I had moved closer to my parents to try to be with them more, especially during the scary, uncertain times of the pandemic at its height, which concerned me for their health.
Eventually, it was too much to bear. I kept being lied to about my father's seriousness of cutting me out of his life. He was trying to manipulate me to not see my sister, despite trying to make us all work on a relationship as a family versus keeping our relationships with each other separate when it was clear it wasn't working out. I attempted to seriously talk about this awful repetitive behavior with him (we've had many prior talks before about his behavior), and he ended up exploding on me during our phone call. I hung up, explaining I won't entertain him speaking to me like that. He expected me to visit him ASAP to work it out, but I was no longer comfortable doing so because this cyclical behavior was not changing despite trying to be understanding. I blocked him so he wouldn't be able to harass me into the night as well as at my early shift at work in the morning. So, I was only communicating with my mother and the main phone line at this point, until I felt like he talked to me more appropriately.
One day while talking to my mother, I found out my father never told her about the physical abuse I experienced (she was never around when he got physical with me). I was under the impression he had, and this discovery upset her. She talked to my father about it, who apparently denied remembering this and she confronted me about it. I explained and she tried to deny my experience, which I had a visceral, angry reaction to after she stated she had to protect my father. I angrily yelled a few choice words to her, said my goodbyes and blocked all their numbers. My father attempted to reach out via a letter and a birthday present. The letter was 62 pages. Single spaced. Small font. Two or less paragraphs to each page. It was a terrible letter. It only confirmed my feelings of how bad my father talks to me when upset, since I usually try to block out the memory of the awful verbal abuse. I returned the present because in the letter it explained how selfish I was, falsely took advantage financially of them and others. It was a bizarre, twisted delusion of prior events that took place of them trying to forcibly fund particular things in my life (college from their inheritance while I denied their money but I was a part of their jount account so they paid off my loans while calling me stupid for trying not to take it, various gifts they sent me that I did not ask for, more emotional blackmail towards me with millions of inheritance money that I do not want, etc). I returned the gift back to their residence along with a much shorter response letter, requesting family therapy or the cessation of our contact. I haven't gotten another letter since.
This brings me to today. While I felt bad about my reaction towards my mother, I could no longer cope with the abuse. I was getting not only mentally sick, but also physically. I experienced horrible panic attacks, debilitating migraines, which I do not have a history of, and intestinal issues. I called out of work numerous times, it got that bad. My relationship with my parents was starting to affect my quality of life. Now that I no longer am involved with them, I surprisingly do feel a lot better. I no longer feel so depressed, haven't been experiencing panic attacks nor those physical symptoms. I can finally work on studying for certifications pertaining to my job, whereas before I had so much trauma involving studying growing up that it was hard for me. I still battle with my demons, although I do feel significantly better. I am getting married this year to my wonderful fiance, who I love dearly and not only by how great he treats me. I have a lovely house, pets, a good job, and planning for a good future retirement by my own hands. Life is great.
Now, circling back to my question: Should I initiate a wellness check on my mom? My brother knows everything and has been a great support thus far. However, my father stated very recently he nor our mother will be contacting him anymore. It turns out, my brother is facing similar abuse I went through and the relationship has turned sour. My father accused my brother's wife of stealing his narcotics and she fell out with them over this, understandably. My parents attempted to conspire with my brother against his wife, by demanding to feed them information. My father has history of paranoia about other people stealing his medications, as well as pressuring my brother and I to illegally ship them to him while traveling (I refused). My brother supported his wife (she is a good woman) and has been at odds ever since last year. His support towards my parents are diminishing.
I did not expect this to happen. I was initially ok cutting off contact, knowing they will be ok on their own. Now I am starting to question that. I see the isolation my mother feels like she's forced into. She is a bubbly, sociable woman normally. More and more, she is becoming a recluse due to my father's demands and I see this as a really bad sign. I am concerned for my mother now that my brother is no longer involved. I know she does not want this, as she's told me as such, but she feels it is easier to give into my father. My brother is going to go into residency next year and he questions the mental stability of my father. After talking about it, I suggested perhaps to do a wellness check on my mother through a domestic abuse institution she used to volunteer for. I feel she will be more likely to open up to them, since she has expressed her desire to volunteer there again (my father convinced, or perhaps coerced, her to quit to take care of the household more). It just doesn't sit right with me how this situation played out.
I confided in the close people in my life and they expressed concern this will result in a backlash on me, or I may sever my relationship with my parents forever. I have the clarity to know for myself I do not want to go back to the same old relationship I had with my parents, if they do not seek help just like I did with therapy. On the other hand, I cannot deny I do desire to have a healthy relationship with my parents, if one day they feel ready to explore family therapy. All I want is familial love without any more than that. It burdens my heart not to feel like I get that from my parents, without strings attached. All the while, without me, I want to know they are at least ok because I still care about them, despite everything. While it is true my mom is an adult, at the same time I have great concern for her well being and it would devastate me to know I could have done something to help her, if she happened to be in a situation she feels she is negatively spiraling down into with no support at all. I am unsure exactly what to do.

I sell sashes and I have a custom sashes listing, in which people usually choose their text, font and color. In the description I tell them they can DM me for something more special/specific, and someone dmed me with a picture. It’s another sash with the text they want. At first I told them I could do it because taught it was a Pinterest/youtube DIY, but it then I looked it up on Etsy and found the exact listing with the sash. I make mine 10.89 and theirs was 17.89+, so I guess they came to me to copy it because I did it for cheaper. But I told them I couldn’t do it. I don’t really want advices because I’m just not gonna do it, I kinda wanted to share because I can’t believe customers would actually do that. They even hid the listing and cropped the pic. Also, would you contact the OG seller? What would you tell them?
Update: I told the customer I could only do one simplified version, sent them a mockup, they said they didn’t like it, they sent me fonts they wanted which both were made by another person so I told them I couldn’t use them, sent another mockup, then they changed their request from bubble letters to cursive, I told her my listing already had a cursive choice and they said “but I don’t like it. I don’t think this is going to work out. Thanks for trying” so I lost 2 days of doing mockups trying to get what they’d like and they were mad I couldn’t do exactly what they wanted/what the other shop did. But I would NEVER copy another shop or steal a font. I also contacted the other shop telling them maybe they should put a watermark on their image so others shop the buyer might contact might see it and deny the request.

Saving digital copies of your KeePass database can be difficult, or scary. You may be concerned about device failure or data corruption. Here is a solution you might consider. Before making the final paper backup, please test it for errors.

1. Visit CyberChef https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef.
2. In the top right corner (Input), choose your KeePass database as the "input file". Once the file is loaded, you will see a string of nonsensical characters. This is normal.
3. In the left menu, find "DATA FORMAT" and the submenu "To Base58".
4. Drag and drop this "plugin" into the vertical window on the right (Recipe).
5. You may see some "wheels" indicating that the computer is processing.
6. Once completed, you will see a long string of alphanumeric symbols in the bottom right box (Output). Click on the small "save" icon and save it as a text file, e.g., kpwalletbase58.txt.

What this process does is convert your database byte by byte into Base58 encoding. Base58 encoding, also used in Bitcoin, includes only letters and numbers, excluding similar characters like 0 and O. This is crucial if you plan to scan your printed file in the future.

1. Find your kpwalletbase58.txt file and open it with a text editor. Avoid using Word; use a text editor that displays all characters in a monospace font (e.g., Andale Mono). Monospace fonts are the easiest to scan without errors.
2. Print your file. It will span several pages, so ensure they are numbered.
3. Scan your printed file and combine all the characters into one new *.txt file. Ensure that no changes, such as added spaces or line breaks, have been made. The file should appear as one continuous "word" with thousands of characters. Check that you have LF breaks, as these may or may not cause problems.
4. Using the same tool as above, CyberChef, clear all inputs/recipes, and load the scanned .txt file into Input.
5. Load the Recipe "From Base58". (You can actually paste the scanned text directly in the input window, as a plaintext if you wish.)
6. You will now get a string of characters in the Output field. If successful, it will be the same as the initial string of characters.
7. In the Output window, click on the save icon and save it as a KeePass database file, e.g., recovered.kdb (or kdbx for KeePassXC).
8. Open it in the same way as your initial database.

Now you can print numerous copies and distribute them in both paper form or digitally (print to PDF).

Hope this helps.

• Don't use a multi-column format. ATS goes bonkers.
• Most important hard skills for a job must be at the start of your skills list. That means you have to customize your resume for every job.
• There is no need for a summary section if you are a fresher. However, if you decide to add it, then make it count. No need to repeat your name or Uni in this section. Your summary should exude confidence, and show that you know where you are going. Most importantly, don't sink your resume by using a lame-ass summary.
• Use active voice.
• Direct over vague.
• At first view, the hiring manager will spend about 5 to 10 seconds on your resume. If the skills they are looking for don't pop up in that view, your resume goes out.
• Pay attention to capitalization, articles (a, an and the) and punctuation.
• Absolutely no spelling mistakes.
• Consistent bullets.
• No Italics or underlines. Max 5% bold lettering.
• No micro-size fonts, serif fonts, fixed width or, fancy fonts. Use 11-12 points fonts with 1.5 line spacing. Left align and not Justify. Verdana, Tahoma, Calibri, Helvetica are all fine. Times New Roman, Arial is out.
• Brevity

I do custom embroidery and I have a customer requesting a 1980s styled font for the lettering on a cap. I’m having trouble finding something I like. Can you please recommend some fonts? Thank you.

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Now I redownloaded FontForge and I can only modify the glyphs using interconnected anchor points. Is there a way to convert or "view" the font how it was previously?

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Language: English (UK), US/India also works for me