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Re: Monospace Font Spacing
Here’s a good test word: mammillaria Also: Ammunition And: David Hemmings I’m sure you can find some words that you like—in fact, searching for “worst case scenario” test words, and comparing your de…2 -
Re: Monospace Font Spacing
Letters (other than quite symmetrical ones) are not centered in their advance width (i.e. have different sidebearings) because mathematically identical sidebearings will not result in optically even …4 -
Re: AI-Generated Art and Copyright Infringement
Tom, while I am sympathetic with your feeling about this, I’m afraid that you are engaging in wishful thinking. When the U.S. Copyright Office published its revised Compendium of U.S. Copyright Pract…1 -
Re: AI-Generated Art and Copyright Infringement
Additionally, typefaces and fonts are not the same thing. The general belief in the font industry in 1998–2018 was that typefaces (the designs) were not protected by copyright, but that the code of a…1 -
Re: AI-Generated Art and Copyright Infringement
Yes, the elephant in the room: Adobe v SSI (1998) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems,_Inc._v._Southern_Software,_Inc. This decision was a very big part of the basis of people in the font bu…2 -
A new social network for type people: typo.social (@Mastodon)
I made a quick search on TD / seems this is not mentioned yet / pls delete if it is. Anyway, I entered my dusty Twitter yesterday and saw a lot of type people migrated to Mastodon (Twitter alternativ…2 -
Re: AI-Generated Art and Copyright Infringement
As long as I’ve been in this field, it’s been clear that U.S. copyright was about the font program, not the typeface’s visual identity. (That was/is covered by a design patent.) So it’s not at all su…3 -
Re: AI-Generated Art and Copyright Infringement
I disagree. The US copyright office accepted registrations for fonts for about 25 years (~ 1992–2018) , before recently beginning to reject most of them, asking for a form of authorship that makes n…1 -
Re: Reviving an Art Deco Font
Feels to me like it can't decide if curves are allowed or not.1 -
Type Design Resources
https://typedesignresources.com/ I published this a long time ago on Github, but it now has a new home with a complete redesign. Bookmark, enjoy, and feel free to contribute!12
