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It doesn't matter on the corporate identity either.
It may not matter to you, but in this circumstance, your opinion doesn’t matter.
I love how all these 'brand' fonts look indistinguishable to an untrained eye and still brain-frying-bordedom-inducingly close to each other to someone like me who actually studied & worked in typography. Related: https://eidosdesign.substack.com/p/why-every-brand-looks-the...
Whoa. How does this work? One of the major issues we had at my previous company weaning people off of powerpoint (to google docs) was brand fonts. Ours, of course. A lot of what is considered brand identity in presentations comes from fonts, which makes Google Docs Slides a non-starter for many unfortunately. (we ended up making them in powerpoint and using the Google Docs compatibility mode with pptx).
I just stole Facebook Sans
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It may not matter to you, but in this circumstance, your opinion doesn’t matter.
It only matters to the designers. The users don't care which sans-serif font the designers picked, they all look the same.
Received DMCA takedown notices for a paid font I used for my wife’s interior design website that she liked but we didn’t pay for because…I’m lazy. I was surprised to receive the DMCA (it is hosted on GitHub Pages). I ignored the emails because…I’m lazy. They (GitHub) eventually took down the repository (and site). So I swapped to another font and I don’t think my wife noticed. I think all of this was still easier tha…
Out of interest, did you rename the font prior to use? I'm curious how they found it. You can also just stick them in a font-editor and re-export "as your own font" with some minor tweaks. Not that you should, of course.
Making a typeface takes a tremendous amount of work. The financial upside is extremely hard to justify.
I think non-designers underestimate the amount of effort required by an order of magnitude. I put it in the territory of building indie games. Potentially years of your life go into it, and it's a huge problem if everyone pirates your work.
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It may not matter to you, but in this circumstance, your opinion doesn’t matter.
It only matters to the designers. The users don't care which sans-serif font the designers picked, they all look the same.
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It may not matter to you, but in this circumstance, your opinion doesn’t matter.
It only matters to the designers. The users don't care which sans-serif font the designers picked, they all look the same.
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Out of interest, did you rename the font prior to use? I'm curious how they found it. You can also just stick them in a font-editor and re-export "as your own font" with some minor tweaks. Not that you should, of course.
You really should pay, especially for work by small foundries. Making a typeface takes a tremendous amount of work. The financial upside is extremely hard to justify. I think non-designers underestimate the amount of effort required by an order of magnitude. I put it in the territory of building indie games. Potentially years of your life go into it, and it's a huge problem if everyone pirates your work.
You can't copyright the alphabet.
>and it's a huge problem if everyone pirates your work.
I've never pirated a font. Not once have I boarded a ship in the middle of the ocean, gun in hand, taking the crew and cargo of typography hostage.
But more seriously, I acknowledge that it's a problem. It's just not my problem.
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You really should pay, especially for work by small foundries. Making a typeface takes a tremendous amount of work. The financial upside is extremely hard to justify. I think non-designers underestimate the amount of effort required by an order of magnitude. I put it in the territory of building indie games. Potentially years of your life go into it, and it's a huge problem if everyone pirates your work.
>You really should pay, especially for work by small foundries. You can't copyright the alphabet. >and it's a huge problem if everyone pirates your work. I've never pirated a font. Not once have I boarded a ship in the middle of the ocean, gun in hand, taking the crew and cargo of typography hostage. But more seriously, I acknowledge that it's a problem. It's just not my problem.
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1. I would note that bitmap fonts do not receive the same protection as Type 1 or OTF fonts.