Nick Shinn · President

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  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    John, you need to un-contradict yourself about what goes on in uninstantiated design space. First you stated that it is not legally the responsibility of the typeface designer, now you say that the t…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    There is also an “uninstantiated” kind of typeface, a Platonic ideal which exists in the ether of the collective conscious. We all know what “Bodoni” or “Garamond” look like and can draw those from m…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    This philosophical debate could go on a while, so I’d like to try and explain my theory with an illustration. Three type genres which may be interpolated between, with axes of contrast and serif thic…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    John Hudson: Thomas: I wasn’t intending to talk about intellectual property in a legal sense, when I meant it quite literally as “an idea that belongs to a designer” and how easily such things may no…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    To clarify the issue of derivation: 1. Is it legal? 2. Is it easy? 3. Is it significant? By using the term “robust” I was alluding to (2) fences and the safety of one’s property, not (1) Hudson’s foc…
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