Why do people often refer to OPTI fonts as pirated fonts? Or clones? How are these fonts different from Fontsite or Softmaker that appear to be copies as well? I purchased many OPTI fonts back in the early 1990s from catalogs.
Fontsite and Softmaker fonts are sold through Monotype websites so if they had an issue they would probably not do so.
I have no beef with Fontsite or Softmaker. I purchased fonts from them too.
Now days I try to stick to Adobe Fonts or purchase licenses from MyFonts.
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The OPTI fonts were all digitized from these pirated film fonts.
More info about Castcraft and OPTI on Luc Devroye's site.
Martin Kotulla: “Since MT owns the Columbus name, I wanted another name starting with "C" and containing at least one "o". So "Cristoforo" was created. Your thought process was probably similar.”
Me, unspoken since I did not want to give away anything at that point in the debate: IT WAS HIS FIRST NAME in his native Italian. (And there was already at least one typeface named Christopher.)
I leave it to the reader to judge whether Kotulla’s explanation has even the tiniest shred of plausibility.
And that’s why I didn’t release Cristoforo on MyFonts a couple years back.
Good lesson on the value of registering trademarks; only had I registered the trademark would MyFonts have recognized a prior claim.