Nick Shinn

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… (View Post)

John Butler: That is exactly what I was thinking of: that it would be possible to plagiarize a static design by deliberately burying it at some intersection of variable axes.  (View Post)

John Savard: Well then, if weight, contrast, x-height and serif style don’t determine what a type design is, but are values controlled by a multi-axis parametric font, which is in effect a typeface d… (View Post)

It’s a new theory of a type designer. It’s not in law, as nobody appears to have yet addressed the matter in this light. Though I doubt I am the first to have the thought. The idea being that decisio… (View Post)

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… (View Post)