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The most interesting thing for me was the Iconian Fonts website. One guy who is a "commercial transaction attorney for a global software and service company", t

by sksksk 2y ago

The most interesting thing for me was the Iconian Fonts website. One guy who is a "commercial transaction attorney for a global software and service company", that makes fonts as a hobby. On his commerical use page, he just asks for a $20 donation if you use a font commercially. I wonder if he realised that his fonts would be used in billion dollar movie franchises.

Tao3300 2y ago
Per user/seat, so if they were honorable about it, it's probably a decent amount.
- echoangle 2y ago
  Would this be more than 100 seats? $2000 is still not a lot. Would you theoretically need a license for every employee involved in the movie or only those which would actually work with the font?
  - Tao3300 2y ago
    It's inline with what people usually pay for fonts.
qingcharles 2y ago
This man has created six hundred fonts...!
Log_out_ 2y ago
I wouldnt care about the money but i would care about the credits.
- crazygringo 2y ago
  Fun fact: long credits at the end of the movie were invented by George Lucas for American Graffiti in 1973 [1]. He didn't have the money to pay everyone so he offered to put their names in the credits instead. And thus started a new chapter in the exploitation of film crews, where you don't get paid enough but hey, at least your name is in the credits. All the other producers were immediately like -- that's a genius idea to pay the crew less! So now all movies (and even TV shows) are full of hundreds and often even thousands of names in the credits. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/trivia/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/trivia/
  - jhbadger 2y ago
    That's amazing. I always wondered about watching old (1930s-1950s) movies where they would give credits to the lead cast at the start and just end with a "The End" card with no credits. I always wondered if they just cut the credits off, but I guess they never existed!
    - autoexec 2y ago
      I'm just glad they stopped putting so many opening credits in films. It's basically insufferable to watch old movies with 10+minutes of opening credits. I'm annoyed by the 3-5 minutes of production credits at the start of movies today as it is.
      - parpfish 2y ago
        That’s ALSO a George Lucas thing. Not having the directors name in the opening of Empire got him kicked out of the director’s guild https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-quit-dga-empire-strikes-back-opening-crawl/ https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-quit-dga-empir...
        ryandrake 2y ago
        Wow, it never even registered to me until I read this comment that the Star Wars movies didn't have opening credits. They're usually so forgettable anyway, and after reading that article, it seems so silly and ridiculous that all the various Guilds and Associations and Hollywood Political Units got so butthurt over that decision.
        0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
        Lord of the Rings also famously does not have opening credits. Just runs right into the film. With the expectation that you might have just finished the previous film and ready to start the next.
      - adamomada 2y ago

by sksksk 2y ago

Tao3300 2y ago

Per user/seat, so if they were honorable about it, it's probably a decent amount.

echoangle 2y ago
Would this be more than 100 seats? $2000 is still not a lot. Would you theoretically need a license for every employee involved in the movie or only those which would actually work with the font?
- Tao3300 2y ago
  It's inline with what people usually pay for fonts.

qingcharles 2y ago

This man has created six hundred fonts...!

Log_out_ 2y ago

I wouldnt care about the money but i would care about the credits.

crazygringo 2y ago
Fun fact: long credits at the end of the movie were invented by George Lucas for American Graffiti in 1973 [1]. He didn't have the money to pay everyone so he offered to put their names in the credits instead. And thus started a new chapter in the exploitation of film crews, where you don't get paid enough but hey, at least your name is in the credits. All the other producers were immediately like -- that's a genius idea to pay the crew less! So now all movies (and even TV shows) are full of hundreds and often even thousands of names in the credits. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/trivia/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/trivia/
- jhbadger 2y ago
  That's amazing. I always wondered about watching old (1930s-1950s) movies where they would give credits to the lead cast at the start and just end with a "The End" card with no credits. I always wondered if they just cut the credits off, but I guess they never existed!
  - autoexec 2y ago
    I'm just glad they stopped putting so many opening credits in films. It's basically insufferable to watch old movies with 10+minutes of opening credits. I'm annoyed by the 3-5 minutes of production credits at the start of movies today as it is.
    - parpfish 2y ago
      That’s ALSO a George Lucas thing. Not having the directors name in the opening of Empire got him kicked out of the director’s guild https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-quit-dga-empire-strikes-back-opening-crawl/ https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-quit-dga-empir...
      - ryandrake 2y ago
        Wow, it never even registered to me until I read this comment that the Star Wars movies didn't have opening credits. They're usually so forgettable anyway, and after reading that article, it seems so silly and ridiculous that all the various Guilds and Associations and Hollywood Political Units got so butthurt over that decision.
        0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
        Lord of the Rings also famously does not have opening credits. Just runs right into the film. With the expectation that you might have just finished the previous film and ready to start the next.
    - adamomada 2y ago