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almost no one even acknowledges the existence of font licensing Ha, that seems to imply that people even know there’s such a thing as font licensing. I’ve bee
by perardi 4y ago
almost no one even acknowledges the existence of font licensing
Ha, that seems to imply that people even know there’s such a thing as font licensing.
I’ve been a graphic designer for a long time now, and I barely even remember font licensing exists. Even though I know better, my gut instinct is “well we paid for it, we can use it however we want internally, send it along with the InDesign file to the printer, why not?”
- xp84 4y agoThe super fun thing about fonts that isn't quite intuitive to most, is that once you rasterize them you're freed from all shackles, meaning you can use a $12 font license and make an iconic piece of art, print it out and sell 50,000,000 copies of it and make a billion dollars, and you're completely in the clear. Or even produce a JPEG and sell that the same way. But if you make it into a webfont and render that same font in a browser as text, lawsuit city.
- zorked 4y agoDepends on country. Font makers scanning magazines to check which ads use unlicensed font is a thing that exists. Also for TV. And often a TV license is different from a print license.