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Re: Early Altsys Manuals and Marketing
Fontographer, yikes: “A single point is necessary for defining any blank character, like the space character (#32). Version 3.2 automatically includes a point; do not remove it. Versions prior to and…2 -
Re: Early Altsys Manuals and Marketing
@"Kent Lew” Same! I did a lot of work as an illustrator using FreeHand, and to this day I find Illustrator difficult to use. I also have a lot of old FreeHand files that I can’t access without a…1 -
Re: What kind of impact did digital/social media have on fonts?
Leaving aside the very big changes to the industry from the shift to digital fonts for desktop publishing, there was a huge shift with the rise of ecommerce on the web. Before then, it was relatively…6 -
Re: Copyrighting Fonts: Source Code Software
I wouldn’t go that far. It’s definitely a bit fraught right now, but I’ve heard anecdotally that some copyright registrations are still getting through the U.S. Copyright Office.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
