re-draw fonts?
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Gotham was not a re-draw (revival is the more correct term), but a face created in a style. Tobias Frere-Jones was the designer and he really knows his stuff. Its quite interesting how Gotham came about:
http://www.typography.com/catalo…
Usually revivals are interpretive and created to improve, add weights to, characters to, etc on a type design. Adobe Garamond and other interpretations were designed to create a clean version of Garamond for modern use (postscript as opposed to set type, photo type, etc).
It is legal. Its known as a derivative work. The ethics mainly revolve around your interpretation. You'll find significant differences in various interpretations to fonts.
Go for it and good luck... its actually quite difficult to do this well...