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Nimbus Sans was designed to be a complete lookalike for Helvetica. I'm not sure how they got away with it, except that the IP laws protecting fonts are rather w

by mark-r 8y ago

Nimbus Sans was designed to be a complete lookalike for Helvetica. I'm not sure how they got away with it, except that the IP laws protecting fonts are rather weak. Besides, I don't think it's open source.

anoncake 8y ago
Nimbus Sans is not a lookalike for Helvetica, it is a Helvetica. The visual appearance of fonts is not copyrightable. And it's GPL'd.
- Mirioron 8y ago
  What does it mean for a font to be GPL? Does it carry the license along into any project you use that font in?
  - mark-r 8y ago
    The GPL version was produced to be included with Ghostscript, which itself is GPL, so that wasn't an issue. I'd be very wary of using it with any other project.
    - anoncake 8y ago
      That sounds like FUD.