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I don't have case law, but there are tons of fonts that explicitly say they are based on a copyrighted one: * libre baskerville * Liberation Mono is a sans-ser
by ars 7y ago
I don't have case law, but there are tons of fonts that explicitly say they are based on a copyrighted one:
* libre baskerville
* Liberation Mono is a sans-serif font metrically equivalent to Courier New
* Liberation Serif is metrically equivalent to Times New Roman.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
Arial is based on Helvetica and we created specifically because of copyright on Helvetica.
- yellowapple 7y ago"Metrically equivalent" just means they take up the same amount of space when typeset (i.e. if you take a document in Times New Roman and change the font to Liberation Serif, nothing should move around). As you can see in the case of Courier New v. Liberation Mono, the two fonts can be very different visually while still being metrically equivalent.
- fwip 7y agoThanks :)