No, the copyright treaties the United States has entered into specify
that something copyrighted in a foreign country is not subject to
copyright in the U.S. *unless* it would have been subject to copyright
if it were made in the U.S. Typefaces are not subject to copyright in
the U.S., no ma
>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
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 00:02 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
[...]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface#Legal_aspects :
>
> "Many western countries extend copyright protection to typeface
> designs. However, this has no impact on protection in the United
> States, because all of the major copyright
2009/6/23 Joshua A.C. Newman :
> Well, I need something both low-contrast and modern for this project. I
> might even start with DIN or Futura. Not sure yet.
You can use my student project (currently in development) if you like :-)
http://dave.lab6.com/a/a2009-06-23-1236.ttf
> In any event, I'm
2009/6/23 Liam R E Quin :
>
> the US does have copyright treaties these days, so if a design
> is copyright in Germany or France or the UK (say), that copyright
> is to be respected in the US... although it might be hard to
> enforce because of past cases)
This isn't true according to a patent law
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
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.
I'll see what I can do, and maybe we'll make a thing!
-Joshua
On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:
2009/6/23 Joshua A.C. Newman :
>
> Crud. It looks like it's time for a redraw.
I'd rather that you looked at Bodoni and made your own, original, low
contrast sans serif based on its skeletal forms, but you do whatever
you think is more fun :-)
> There is a remarkable dearth of text body fonts in
2009/6/23 Karl Berry :
>
> > Sadly that file is not a libre font, so I zilched it.
>
> It seems like it would less confusing to delete it completely than to
> leave behind a useless zero-length file.
Done!
There is a remarkable dearth of text body fonts in there.
http://www.geocities.com/hartke01/ is the best attempt I know of at
compiling a list of free/libre text fonts.
I don't know of anything closer to Helvetica Neue in the free world
closer than the various URW-Helvetica-Nimbus Sans deriv
Crud.
It looks like it's time for a redraw.
There is a remarkable dearth of text body fonts in there. Surely we
can harness the power of open source to generate some good body type?
Maybe we can start with some model characters (oOxXlwWbBAH) and go
from there?
... or is this one of those
2009/6/23 Joshua A.C. Newman :
> Helvetica Neue, easily the most useful font in the OpenFont site, is a 0k
> file. I'd like very much to use it for an OSS project, but, well, 0k. Any
> recommendations?
Sadly that file is not a libre font, so I zilched it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Sans_
Helvetica Neue, easily the most useful font in the OpenFont site, is a
0k file. I'd like very much to use it for an OSS project, but, well,
0k. Any recommendations?
-Joshua
Joshua Newman Design
401.225.7222
> and its a discussion with Aaron Spaulding about his Javascript work on
> the http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/files/ listing
Quick comment (I still need to listen to the recording):
Isn't it src: local (Foo) instead of src: local (Foo.ttf) ?
We should drop the extension in the snippets.
Che
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