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- quamb0
sparker, everything your saying is true.
though things aren't always so black and white.
- gravityroom0
"and most font designers with the major foundries are commissioned. much like stock photographers. "
Sorry Bonseff - this is not true. Commissioned fonts are seldom made commercial.
I design fonts and this is a huge problem. You're right - it won't go away, but its disheartening.
I tried to post 3 typefaces that I've designed on a computerlove exhibition. They reviewed it and told me they would post it live if I would provide free downloads for anyone who wanted them.
Needless to say - I spent hundereds of hours on those typefaces - I'm NOT giving them away.
So why don't they make everyone who's designed a book on there take addresses and give away their product? Or how about all those 3D illustrations people sell as stock and feature there?
Free fonts have damaged the industry. People expect them to all be free. If you can't afford it, find another solution - its that easy.
- unknown0
"If you can't afford it, find another solution - its that easy. "
It really is indeed.
I'm stealing it cuz ima sporty thief
- davetufts0
why are some people pink?
- unknown0
welcome to newsyesterday
- Dolan0
Those who rip others off are destined to never make anything themselves that's compelling enough for anyone to want to steal. Respect your peers. Respect creativity. Respect yourself. Props to v for having the nutsack to speak truth in this sewer.
- ********0
Beign a poor student is childish? Wow, don't know where you went to school sparker or if your parents paid for all your software, but I work 2 jobs and go to school so I can pay my car bills, gas, reparations and just enough to pile up a bit for university. And believe me, when I have my own firm, I'll pay for my fonts, but I just don't see the point in paying for fonts for school projects. I totally respect typographers across the world and find that good type making is a really hard art to master.
- evad0
i'm a little confused, is it morally ok to use fonts from places like dafont.com?
- evad0
nevermind. i just read another post about it.
:)
- unknown0
wow, ntster, the font exchange client.
Thanks vena, you rock!
:)
- unknown0
I respect my peers and their craft but I don't see why I should buy a font for personal projects. They should pay me because I promote the font for potential clients to fall in love with and buy it.
If the client wants the font he's gonna buy it, NOT me!!
"Those who rip others off are destined to never make anything themselves that's compelling enough for anyone to want to steal. "
Just a short example:
Picasso was the biggest thief ever and still today he's remembered praised and studied (ripped off) over and over again.
He's a source of inspiration.Hail to the sporty thieves
Get over yourselves
- gravityroom0
"I respect my peers and their craft but I don't see why I should buy a font for personal projects."
Yeah - and I don't see why I should have to pay for my car or gas when I'm using it for personal errands. After all, I'm giving GM free promotion everytime I go to the store.
Its easy to justify for some reason when you are on the reciving end of theft.
Get over YOUR self.
- BonSeff0
hey gravityroom. just for arguements sake, how do the designers for itc, adobe, emigre and the like get paid?
- gravityroom0
You mean the type designers specifically?
- BonSeff0
yeah
- jarno0
designers hate and want money. artists love and don't care. ¦)
- ********0
Picasso said "a good artist borrows ideas, a great artist steals."
- unfittoprint0
I will steal everything as long presidents steal elections.
- ********0
"I admire artists who paint for the love of painting, not for the money." -Frank Doad Esquire III
- monNom0
is it still wrong to to trade fonts that were copied from other fonts?
say, one of the many helvetica knock-offs???