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Some interesting notes: professional font designers regularly copy each other's work. However, if you ask a legitimate font designer, they will trace another fo
by 2bitlobster 5y ago
Some interesting notes: professional font designers regularly copy each other's work. However, if you ask a legitimate font designer, they will trace another font. Where they get in hot water is if they copy and/or manipulate the actual Bezier points from another file (at which point they are copying the code). I remember going to a font design conference a long time ago, and some elite well known designers were aghast at another well known font designer for copying the bezier points directly off of another font and then manipulating the points from there. It's a crazy little dance they do to keep things legit.
- randombits0 5y agoI’d like to suggest that if a “crazy little dance” is required to “keep things legit”, it’s not.
- httpsterio 5y agoIf you use OCR to copy the entierty of a book and it became legit after doing so , I'd argue that the laws around that make little sense.
- randombits0 5y agoI was only suggesting a failure in law. Merely scanning is not creative and not protected. As for fonts specifically, while I am not qualified to describe creative elements versus prior art, I think we can all agree the the field of commonly used fonts is quite well within the realm of the public domain. Font foundries only exist to squeeze unearned profits from only minor and non-expressive additions to that that is already well within accepted public art for many hundreds of years. They are swindlers and con artists.