re-draw fonts?
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it seems weird to me that people are so harshly quick to call out revival/redrawings of fonts as "stolen". its on thing to open up the suitcase/ttf/whatever and change 2 things and just call it your own, but that rarely happens. its generally someones view of that typeface and how they would like to see it drawn. a perfect example is bodoni - there are easily over a hundred variations of it out there - but massimo vignelli took the time to make his own , which is a more squared off and less rounded version of traditional bodoni's. no harm in that. its his interpretation.
as far as the release of the Avant Garde alts, there isnt a widely available/publicized version around. which is maybe for the best the way some people use them.
i recently drew out the font motter ombra which was put out by letraset in the 70's[ click here to see it]. i also created 3 variants on it. is that wrong? i dont think so, but its for personal use. im not looking to sell it. i don't really know what the logistics of that would be if i wanted to - this font has never been digitized, so who knows. i assume there is a measure of intellectual property you have to be sensitive to, but its also technically a new interpretation, even if you think you are just tracing it.
it seems like a grey area. especially in america there is really no convention for copyrighting a lot of things like this.