#Dup'ing font libraries
28-Jan-90 00:08:17
Sb: #6467-#Dup'ing font libraries
Fm: Tripp Narup 76340,134
To: Thom Hartmann <HiResOp> 76702,765
I don't know of *any* cases of outright font copying with photo or digital
type. Cg's Helios and Triumverate are definitely *not* the same cut as the
original Helvetica. Same goes for Swiss. Bitstream's Times is not the same
as Adobe's Times… Paladium is not exactly the same as Palatino, etc. etc.
If you can show me one font that hasn't been licensed that is an *exact*
duplicate of another vendor's I'd be very surprised. In all cases that I
know of, there have been slight, almost unnoticable changes made to the
cuts of the fonts before issuing them under a new name.