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Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
I didn't know what ILT's royalty cut is. I wanted to take a preliminary meeting with Nadine but she was unwilling to talk to me without an NDA. I just don't have the brain space to keep track of what…2 -
Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
I‘ll reach out to Vanilla and see what they can do about the disagreement anonymity.2 -
Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
Pablo, I don’t think Google can take quite so much credit for creating an Argentinian type design community. Europe and North America were quickest at developing theirs— many factors were involved, A…6 -
Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
Concerning anchor points, as a general rule I think most type designers tend to keep them to a sanitary minimum in fonts with simpler contours. In the two examples of the letter /a, the anchor points…2 -
Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
Pablo: The idea is quite basic: if you give people something for free, they will be less inclined to pay somebody else for a comparable product. Hardly bullshit. Your “developing the market” theory i…2 -
Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
Yes. My point is that the case is not going to be decided on a subjective opinion that the two typefaces ‘look similar’, whether to an expert or to an uninformed observer. If one looks at the two sid…3 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I’m not sure what you mean by ‘thinking of me’. Presumably some idea of what you think I would like? But that’s not at all the point of my critique, which is about process. What the AI is doing is no…4 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I’m impressed by the autotracing of 13b. The techology has come a long way. 14 is interesting. But it seems like most of the wild creative shapes are illegible; some of the glyphs look like an alphab…2 -
Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
Again, the case is not about whether the typefaces look similar.3 -
Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
But, to be derivative, Spectral needs to share similar structures with Le Monde Journal, no? Otherwise, how one could even consider some link between then? For example: the same number of nodes of th…2
