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Shorter ajross: it's ok to ripoff things but it's not ok to call a ripoff a ripoff. "But the core issue here is that you don't understand the typography indus
by Steko 15y ago
Shorter ajross: it's ok to ripoff things but it's not ok to call a ripoff a ripoff.
"But the core issue here is that you don't understand the typography industry."
The core issue here is you want to make this about me. It isn't. You don't know the first thing about what I do and don't know.
"So Helvetica Neue and Roboto are new entries in the family."
Yes, put the dominant san-serif font in publishing over the last 30+ years and a clone that debuted yesterday on an equal footing -- that's an incredibly fair and honest summary of the situation.
- beej71 15y agoThe core issue here is you want to make this about me. It isn't. You don't know the first thing about what I do and don't know. Well, you seem to think that basing a font on another is a ripoff, and that's the bit on which the parent poster is basing his assertion. Many of us feel it is not a ripoff. Helvetica, however popular, was not the first of its kind, and most average people wouldn't be able to tell it from Akzidenz-Grotesk, created some 60 years earlier. Almost every major foundry has a Helvetica clone. If this is a big deal, it was a big deal before the relatively minor addition of Roboto.