On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 20:41 -0200, minombresbond wrote: > I take this opportunity to ask if you know about scaned images of > public domain or olds typography catalog resources on the web, I know > about raph levien's catalogs like: > > http://levien.com/type/atf_1912/ > http://levien.com/type/atf_1923/ > http://levien.com/type/atf_1934/ > http://levien.com/type/atf_1941/ > > There is something else?
Is there anything specific you are looking for? At what sort of resolution? I've considered adding a lot of typeface scans to www.fromoldbooks.org but not sure who would benefit. > I understand that the glyps of any typeface is not > 'copyrightable' material in USA and the rest of the world > > http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/formprocessor/copyright/cfr.pl?&urlmiddle=1.0.2.6.2.0.174.1∂=202§ion=1&prev=&next=2 > > (except any 'patented' typefaces in any european countrys), That's not right -- they are not copyrightable in the US, but they _are_ copyrightable in (many) other countries. However, typeface design protection is limited, e.g. in the UK I think it's 25 years. > then, I can > take any 'privative' actual font, printing the font, re-drawing the > glips, reasign the kerning pairs etc and publish that font (the > font software) in any free licence.. but this procedure will not be seen > very well, by my colleagues tipographers... Furthermore, the typeface _names_ are often registered trademarks... Also, developing a high-quality typeface can be a lot of work; Microsoft spent over a million US dollars on Arial, I've heard. I'd rather see some creativity at work than blind copying :-) although I'm very willing to scan some typeface samples whose copyright has expired, e.g. to help people make revivals. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
