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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: Returning to Type Design After 20-Year Hiatus
I often feel like I’ve stopped designing type, so much of my work in recent years has been updating designs from my most prolific era—20 years ago. Back then, pre-Opentype, It didn’t take very long t…6 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
The variable format has opened an intellectual property can-of worms. It used to be that an important part of the design of a typeface was the specific metric values of weight and x-height that the d…0 -
Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
It’s chokepoint capitalism, enabled by monopsony. Not much the little people can do about it, except stay up to date. Organization might be an option, but it’s not in the “indie”, entrepreneurial hea…3 -
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
