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Princess Alice · 2013-02-25 15:56:24

where will we go when every path is a dead end?

Imipolex G · 2013-02-25 15:59:46

to HELL ha ha ha

Fossilmaiden · 2013-02-25 16:01:32

Do not panic, everything will be fine.

Viani · 2013-02-25 23:01:40

Central Avenue said:
where will we go when every path is a dead end?

Then the only route is the Lonesome Road.

Tachyon · 2013-02-25 23:08:32

Tempus Sans ITC

what is this sorcery

Viani · 2013-02-25 23:10:13

I couldn't get the lonesome road font to work because I CAN'T AFFORD THE FUCKING THING

RocketRunner · 2013-02-26 20:45:52

Does that mean you walk a lonely road, the only road that-no, I'm not gonna go through with that.

Anonus · 2013-02-26 20:48:34

I know it's supposed to look handwritten but what is wrong with you Phill Grimshaw T-T

Viani · 2013-02-26 23:52:54

I figured out one of the reasons why companies buy fonts is because it makes it much harder to create counterfeit products.

Yugioh uses a variant of Matrix Small Caps, which makes any attempt at creating a counter-feit card extremely difficult.

Yarrun XIX · 2013-02-27 00:07:21

Huh.

I wonder of there are guys who counterfeit fonts so people can counterfeit products?

Viani · 2013-02-27 00:09:27

There are people who make cost-efficient clones or free-clones of popular fonts like that, for non-commercial use.

Then there's people who make cost-effective clones of fonts so they can create convincing counterfeit products.

I have a counterfeit Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End that was copied perfectly to the card, and the only way I could tell was because of the gloss on the card made it too "freshly printed".

Previous Calica · 2013-02-28 17:53:02

Yarrun said:
Huh.

I wonder of there are guys who counterfeit fonts so people can counterfeit products?

Almost definitely. Counterfeiting is a big business.

Viani · 2013-02-28 22:27:52

Generally it's all profit, making fake versions of expensive things for very cheap (or no money at all) is untaxable and generally unregulatable. Counterfeiting money is pure profit since you can use what you make with the supplies, to buy more supplies.

Aliroz · 2013-02-28 23:31:23

http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html

Counterfeit fonts is how Arial was created.

That an it made a good excuse for capitalists to get out of paying liscencing fees.

Viani · 2013-03-01 00:38:43

It was based on a typeface called Grotesque?

Princess Alice · 2013-03-01 00:47:37

Typeface designs can't be copyrighted under U.S. law, so making cheap knockoffs of typefaces is actually pretty common.

For example: Segoe, the default UI font in Windows since Vista, and Microsoft's main branding typeface since last year, is pretty blatantly derived from Frutiger, with only minor cosmetic changes. It actually led to some legal trouble in the EU, where typeface designs can be copyrighted--and get this, the dispute only ended because Monotype (who produced Segoe) purchased Linotype (who owns Frutiger) outright.

Viani · 2013-03-01 00:49:01

You can't sue us, when you ARE us. Bwuahahahaha

ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL

lee4hmz · 2013-03-01 10:19:45

There used to be entire collections of fonts from companies like SWFTE that were nothing but quick trace jobs of existing fonts. They look pretty naff in use, too. I actually have a copy of one of the SWFTE CDs from the mid-1990s at work, and it's pretty awful.

lee4hmz · 2013-03-01 10:27:19

Also, there was less malice involved with Arial's creation than most people (and that hatchet job of an article) believe. It was originally more-or-less a commission for IBM, who wanted a cheaper alternative to Helvetica for a laser printer they were developing.

While I don't particularly like what companies like SWFTE did, I think I dislike font snobs even worse. There's one in Germany that goes on about it like a dA user complaining about "art theft".

glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-01 10:54:24

Y'know, what with fonts being copied left and right, and losing their individuality, one might say that...

...these are instances of the Helvetica Scenario.

Viani · 2013-03-01 19:16:27

How much does it cost to have somebody make a font for you?

or better yet, is there a font made from the pokemon UNOWN yet?

Previous Calica · 2013-03-01 19:21:37

Fonts cost a lot of money; if you want one, you have to be incredibly wealthy, like Mark Shuttleworth.

With the Unown, though, you're in luck: Nintendo released one.

glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-01 21:38:40

There are two Unown fonts; one of them is official, and it's called Unown^TM.

glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-02 01:03:34

The unofficial one is called Annon, by the way.

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