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is this font legit? it looks like it was build based on some other font, and there are still original/unchanged characters left. f.e. try to render A, Á and not
by gondo 13y ago
is this font legit?
it looks like it was build based on some other font, and there are still original/unchanged characters left.
f.e. try to render A, Á and notice the difference in font-weight and also the char differences.
or am i missing something?
- deckar01 13y agoThe font doesn't have those characters yet, so your system is likely defaulting to another font.
- gondo 13y agothats interesting. i didn't know that there might be a fallback for individual character. not recognised characters are usually visibly marked as not present (square or X or something else). but if this is whats happening, its not falling back to the next font set in css, its rather picking some "other" (what are the rules here?) font. or simply these characters are designed like this in the font. either as leftovers of originally edited font or on purpose.
- ars 13y ago> it looks like it was build based on some other font, and there are still original/unchanged characters left. There is nothing wrong with doing that. Fonts can't be copyrighted. The font file itself can (sometimes) be copyrighted as a form of computer program, but not the font (i.e. the shape).
- gondo 13y ago>Fonts can't be copyrighted are you sure? than what are all this online web-font services like typekit about? are you saying that i can download any font, edit its metadata, maybe add 1 point to every character and freely use it?
- ars 13y ago> than what are all this online web-font services like typekit about? Good question. They are maintaining the fiction that the font can be copyrighted and hope that everyone plays along. Keep in mind the font file itself is copyrighted because font files are actually little computer programs. > are you saying that i can download any font, edit its metadata, maybe add 1 point to every character and freely use it? Probably not, that's not a sufficient change of the file. What you can do is display the rendered font on your screen, then exactly copy it using a font editor. You will loose hinting this way though (the program embedded in the font to make the hints is copyrighted, the specific hints at each size is not), so there is some extra work you will need to do to replicate the hinting.
- wtallis 13y agoPlease, use the word typeface when trying to make this distinction. In the US, typefaces cannot be copyrighted, but some fonts can.
- ars 13y agoThat's an incorrect distinction. The font (i.e. a particular size and weight of a typeface) can not be copyrighted. Only the computer file can.