About Fonts
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- surfito
yeas, i think that at the moment the artist dies, his fonts should be on the public domain.
Why?
to open up creative and monetary oportunity for living artists.
am I saying something stupid?
- luke0
no, but maybe the authors relatives want to live from his money?
- unknown0
no,
KILL all font artists now!
yeah!
Same for music...hehe
- surfito0
well. thats true.
- miracola0
yeah, you said something stupid.
- surfito0
i suck big time, i promess to stay quiet and not start more threads like this.
i apologize to all the family members of all of our great fontographers who have moved on to a better life some were in the galaxy.
now, i have to go finish this warm corona and watch some snl.
- unknown0
I agree completely, in fact it's like that for music too, or should be anyway. If an artist dies then tough crap, his/her art should be free to the masses. Of course I am biased because I want to use samples from dead music people, but nonetheless, when I am DEAD, anyone can steal my sounds and do whatever the freakin' hell they want!!!!
- unknown0
well for music I think it's a 50 year wait, but I do know that you can use stuff pre 1952.
- surfito0
yeah, its 50 years for music.
the reason i came up with that is that i see people using the same fonts that were created 100 years ago now, and theyre still trendy, and comback to trend, like a circle, so that area of design is not moving too much and its way tooo underrated, probably because of that.
the fact that the fonts are expensive and hard to get, keeps them trendy.
then the talented people now, cant really compete against this.
in fact, the only font revolution we have seen lately are flash fonts and nothing else after that.
music keeps progressing, but this doesnt.
i still do not agree with stealing old fonts, the same way i totally disagree of stealing new fonts, in fact, ive had sets of fonts in front of me, and i dont even touch them, old and new. its too easy to get a client to buy a set of fonts for you, you dont need to spend money on them.
but we really need to start to see new fonts out there, and not fancy artsy busy ones, but sober fonts.
- unknown0
word, surfito
- d_t_p0
it's not that they are 'trendy,' it's that they are 'good.' and typefaces are chosen frequently on historical context.
and saying that typeface design is 'underrated' and 'not moving too much' just shows that you haven't been paying attention too much.
- unknown0
it's all relative
- d_t_p0
relative to what
- i_monk0
I'll start respecting copyrights when I have one under my belt. Until then, take take take!
- unknown0
hee, heee! funny shit this is
- unknown0
relative to everything
- d_t_p0
how philosophical of you
- unknown0
fank uw, ax me anadda
- surfito0
well, d t p.
yup, youre right in your points, i dont wanna be that shalow as to say that they get chosen because theyre trendy, i know how good they are.but, in order for big change to take effect, it has to reach those who are not paying attention.
- d_t_p0
"the fact that the fonts are expensive and hard to get, keeps them trendy."
i just do not believe whatsoever that making the fonts free would change that.
new fonts are not free. emigre has been and still is the most influential modern foundry. they are anything but free... but they are also very popular and have and will continue to affect our profession.
and i also dont think that type designers today are trying to compete agains the gills and the frutigers. type design today is something different.
- unknown0
;)