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It's more comparable to illustration or photography, or even to a written body of html or js, than it is to the programming language. It's the output of an appl

It's more comparable to illustration or photography, or even to a written body of html or js, than it is to the programming language. It's the output of an applied specialist technician for a specific purpose. So similar to those other things you can find a free or cheap generic off-the-shelf one that suits your use, open source fonts exist. Or you can pay for a specific one that suits it better. Font design is a domain several times older than the oldest reasonable precursor to computers. It's imo shitty to stomp in and demand it conform to our idea of how licensing should work.

chrisco255 3y ago
> It's more comparable to illustration or photography, or even to a written body of html or js, than it is to the programming languag Yeah again I can download about a few hundred thousand open source tools like ffmpeg, git, Linux, Chromium, web servers, databases, queues, web libs, etc and almost always the best stuff is open source. Almost never is there some kind of per user fee just for copying code, and if it is, almost nobody is using it. It's not shitty for me to call out greedy excessive licensing practices.
- giraffe_lady 3y ago
  Font forge is open source, which is a tool more comparable to those than a completed font is. You're not entitled the results of the work of other specialists, even if you've become accustomed to that in other areas. And again, do you give away your completed work? Does no one pay you for the expertise you use for them? A font is much more similar to a completed web app than it is to the tools used to create that app. You don't expect someone to make an app for you for free, even if there are apps available for your use for free. Same thing here. Typographers aren't getting rich lmao. They're trying to pay the rent with their skills same as everyone.

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It's more comparable to illustration or photography, or even to a written body of html or js, than it is to the programming language. It's the output of an appl

by giraffe_lady 3y ago

chrisco255 3y ago
> It's more comparable to illustration or photography, or even to a written body of html or js, than it is to the programming languag Yeah again I can download about a few hundred thousand open source tools like ffmpeg, git, Linux, Chromium, web servers, databases, queues, web libs, etc and almost always the best stuff is open source. Almost never is there some kind of per user fee just for copying code, and if it is, almost nobody is using it. It's not shitty for me to call out greedy excessive licensing practices.
- giraffe_lady 3y ago
  Font forge is open source, which is a tool more comparable to those than a completed font is. You're not entitled the results of the work of other specialists, even if you've become accustomed to that in other areas. And again, do you give away your completed work? Does no one pay you for the expertise you use for them? A font is much more similar to a completed web app than it is to the tools used to create that app. You don't expect someone to make an app for you for free, even if there are apps available for your use for free. Same thing here. Typographers aren't getting rich lmao. They're trying to pay the rent with their skills same as everyone.