John Butler · Organism

  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    An interesting idea: plagiarize the instance “from the inside out” and publish the variable font’s extrapolated axes only, to arrive at the instance only through interpolation.This still requires the…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    Also, I seem to recall that Minion and Myriad are examples of 30-year-old variable fonts with both copyrights and design patents, back when “variable” was called “multiple master.”
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    Here’s a way to conceptualize a variable font in terms of intellectual property. I’ll begin with a bunch of stuff you obviously already know, whether you would think to articulate it this way or not.…
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