pixel font copyright
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- toastie
i was looking through Susan Kare's pixelfont collection on atomic media (http://atomicmedia.net/fontcart...
and found it kind of funny that a 5x5 pixel font (amazing as it is) is copyrighted. After all, all it is is a way to put a few pixels into a 5x5 array for each letter. Would manually plotting the same system pixel by pixel be a violation of that copyright? At what point of complexity does a thing like that change from an easily replicated idea to a copyrighted product? I wanna hear your opinions. Btw, I admire her work and think that her fonts are amazing, but just cant help but thinking that it's just the optimum way of displaying type in a 5x5 array, not someone's font. Respect. React.
- SF0
its like you've opened a metaphysical can of worms.
- XC010
she did it first.
end of story.
- quamb0
font copyright- a okay
5x5 grid layout to make the alphabet copyright- no way
that would mean one could make a font of say, periods/full stops, then we'd all be breaking the law by using 1x1 pixel dots in our type.
- ribit0
Doesnt it depend whether you use her font , or make your own font... or simulate it without using an actual font?
i.e. 3 different legal situations.
- ribit0
and re the 1 pixel font... wouldn't she have to show that your work was derived from hers in order to sue?
- lambsy0
i made a 4x4 pixel font... but its all messed up with the letter spacing and i don't know how to fix that, i used fontographer.
first and last font i ever made.
- unknown0
wow.. never thought of that... great point...
*walks aways pondering*
- toastie0
*bu-hump*