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Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Not under USA copyright law, AIUI, IANAL1 -
Re: Returning to Type Design After 20-Year Hiatus
I often feel like I’ve stopped designing type, so much of my work in recent years has been updating designs from my most prolific era—20 years ago. Back then, pre-Opentype, It didn’t take very long t…6 -
Re: Elemaints - A Serif Family with Optical Sizes
I agree that new forms of two and three are fitting. To my eye your bold figures are a bit uneven in color (e.g. six and four look darker than five and two).2 -
Re: Returning to Type Design After 20-Year Hiatus
Your first paragraph sounds like me. I created my first full, installable font in 1991 as an after-hours project while working as a graphic designer. I posted it online on CompuServe (if anyone can r…7 -
Re: Display typeface Silk road
I read "v1.0" as "rio"1 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Me: Nick: Indeed, but that has nothing to do with what you appeared to be talking about, which is variable versus static fonts in the context of typeface design as intellectual property. I would disa…0 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Guys, this is probably not a good conversation to have in a permanent public forum. if it's really a problem you're handing bad actors a blue print. Can we get a moderator to delete these o…2 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Also, I seem to recall that Minion and Myriad are examples of 30-year-old variable fonts with both copyrights and design patents, back when “variable” was called “multiple master.”0 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Nick, you claimed ‘The variable format has opened an intellectual property can-of worms’, but now acknowledge that no one has addressed the matter in a legal context. You further claimed, in alarming…0 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
I will have to admit that I disagree. To me, the way that the weight might change as the numerical parameter for the weight is altered is just one additional creative element in the design, a curve t…0
