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Yes, welcome to Corporate Typograhism™ where big corp takes an already existing (copyrighted) font -- change it a little -- then release it as their own. Some

• mikedc 5y ago
  The implication that this is a practice being used to skirt copyright is wrong. In almost all cases the font foundry is commissioned by a company to produce a distinct (or not so distinct as the case may be) variant of a typeface/family, licensed to them for their use - as an alternative to having the foundry create an entirely new typeface from scratch.
  • OzzyB 5y ago
    The point I'm making is that you can simply modify an already existing font "just enough" for it to be considered a new work. This is essentially what happened with Arial w/ Helvetica; and companies have been doing this ever since to create new licenses that they can control. We are drowning in Grotesk/Sans-Serif/Helvetica type fonts! Do we really need another "Big Tech Sans"? Or rather, why can't Twitter just use X? xD
• raxxorrax 5y ago
  At least there is no copyright on the alphabet.
  • LocalH 5y ago
    Yet.