MS Segoe
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- RobotGunslinger
The Eu guys have denied Microsofts request to register their Windows Vista font Segoe because it's identical to Linotypes Frutiger Next.
will they ever learn?
- twoismtwoism0
its not identical...but it is based on frutiger then again its not like they had much of a choice it works at small sizes they couldnt have just used frutiger they had to develop a font that would work better with cleartype etc...
- RobotGunslinger0
but this is microsoft and not a small company if they want something that looks almost like frutiger than they should go to linotype and no just make up their own version imo.
- g3kk0k1d0
microsoft should just buy up every decide font producer out there,
btw i doubt this is even news inside microsoft, whatever the fine will be for using it - of course they will just pay and carry on
- designerror0
with a profit of $1 billion a month, I'm sure they have the cash to get some good people to design a decent font. So why the hell don't they?
- dinky0
thats very interesting
i wonder how they are gonna go around it
- designerror0
There was a rich guy in Denmark who always parked illegal in Copenhagen. He got fed up with all the work with the parking tickets he got, so he just paid for 365 ahead .. :)
Maybe they will just do the same..
But I dout it.. they have a $2 million a day fine monopoly case on their back too..
- lebowski0
is this covered under eu's guttenberg act?
- RobotGunslinger0
I really don't care that much if Microsoft uses their font or not, but I really hate it that Microsoft is replacing all the famous fonts with their own version. If Segoe is really that similiar to Frutiger then its Arial vs. Helvetica all over again. yes, yes"de-educate" the masses now!
- lebowski0
fonts a fonts a font
why change the name, unless it's associated with other macs or something