Irrespective of the mysteries of copyright law (which are precisely
what I'm trying to avoid by making an OSF anyway), it will have
obviously different aesthetic "decisions", which are the defining
factor. And by "decisions", I mean "mistakes".
-Joshua
On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:34 -0400, Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:
Well, I need something both low-contrast and modern for this project.
I might even start with DIN or Futura. Not sure yet. In any event,
I'm
pretty sure I don't have the subtlety of eye to deal with Bodoni.
Watch out that although typefaces designed by US citizens in the US
are not protected by copyright, other countries, and in particular
Germany, do have copyright for typeface designs...
(and the US does have copyright treaties these days, so if a design
is copyright in Germany or Fance or the UK (say), that copyright
is to be respected in the US... although it might be hard to
enforce because of past cases)
Liam
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