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Re: Are foundry initials an inherent part of a type family name?
That's a bit general, no? Monotype claims the trademark on "Monotype Scotch" and "Scotch Roman MT", but claiming the trademark on "Scotch" alone would be tricky. N…3 -
Re: Are foundry initials an inherent part of a type family name?
Generally, it is a matter of trademark law. One entity can introduce a product under a certain name, and either claims or registers a trademark. If another entity introduces a different product under…5 -
Re: Units per em
"Old software" also includes new software like opentype.js. Actually right now we have a problem — for decades, there were only about 4-5 font rendering engines (well, Adobe itself had sev…1 -
Re: Duospace. Wait, what? Duospace?
Apple is an interesting case: they had Monaco for years which was, well, anything but suitable for code. Then they did Menlo, a fork of the opensource DejaVu Mono, which was uglyish and uninspired bu…3 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
I'm primarily saying that 25 years ago, the 800 fonts bundled with CorelDraw were a substantial portion of generally available quality fonts, but the 800 fonts available at Google Fonts are a ti…6
