Taco Salad is definitely a rip of Fajita, and a poorly executed one at that. Fajita is actually a revamped version of a phototype face called Sarah Elizabeth. The original source consisted of only 60 or so characters. The Image Club version was expanded, adding full diacritics, dozens of alternates, and special characters across two weights.
Monotype (who owns all of the Image Club typefaces these days) has not converted Fajita to OpenType format yet. They are slowly going through the old collection and updating faces, such as my Schmutz family.
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Chris Harrison
Working on a basic tshirt design for my all-time favorite restaurant: Azteca Maya.
about 1 year ago
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Grant Hutchinson
Are you using Image Club’s Fajita there? Make sure to use some of the upper/lowercase alternates.
about 1 year ago
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Chris Harrison
No, it's some freeware font called Taco Salad. I didn't realize it was a rip of Fajita. Thanks for letting me know!
about 1 year ago
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Chris Harrison
Grant, do you know if an OpenType alternative to Fajita is available anywhere?
about 1 year ago
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Jerett Patterson
Dude I get hungry when I see this.
about 1 year ago
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Grant Hutchinson
Taco Salad is definitely a rip of Fajita, and a poorly executed one at that. Fajita is actually a revamped version of a phototype face called Sarah Elizabeth. The original source consisted of only 60 or so characters. The Image Club version was expanded, adding full diacritics, dozens of alternates, and special characters across two weights.
Monotype (who owns all of the Image Club typefaces these days) has not converted Fajita to OpenType format yet. They are slowly going through the old collection and updating faces, such as my Schmutz family.
about 1 year ago