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Aside from the fact that I’m not a fan of piracy, you can’t claim something is legal when there’s a lot of wiggle room. What it comes down to is what you can l
by miragecraft 3y ago
Aside from the fact that I’m not a fan of piracy, you can’t claim something is legal when there’s a lot of wiggle room.
What it comes down to is what you can legally prove in court and that means having big foundries sue you and having to defend yourself.
Nobody wants to go through that just to use some fonts when there are open fonts available.
If you want something custom then pick a variable font, such as Roboto Flex, and customize it beyond recognition.
In fact that’s where I see the future is headed - “master” variable fonts with all the axis, variant glyphs etc. available to be tweaked.
The user then gets to play with dials and knobs and when satisfied recompile the font to be non-variable in order to shave down the file size.
- codedokode 3y agoBig foundries digitize old fonts and claim copyright on them. Take Microsoft as an example, who took 19th century font and sells it [1] [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/typography/font-list/bookman-old-style https://learn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/typography/font-list/bookm...
- miragecraft 3y agoYou're free to make competing digitized fonts using the same source material.