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Emily Skarzenski wrote: "..Sadly, it seems that type designers can't legally
protect a type -design-.
However, they can trademark the name they give their creation. Therefore, anyone
can steal a type design and
resell it, but they can't use the name of the original typeface. Usually, the
cheaters are selling lower-quality
versions (a scan of the original, which is not as good as the original)."
Does anyone have a list (personal or published) that groups the knock-off fonts
with the original one? Or, if you
can just think of a few copy-cat fonts along with the original that would help
also. I need help in controlling the
number of fonts that we have on our PC's. It seems like every software package
out there comes complete with
10-30 additional fonts. Right now we have over 200 fonts that eat up system
resources.
*HELP*
If people will respond directly to me, I will gladly compile a list for everyone
and put it out here.
TIA--
Chris Tarski
UT Southwestern
ctarsk -at- mednet -dot- swmed -dot- edu
