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How to pirate a font
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Fonttools includes a tool to convert TTF to XML and back again. Makes it easy to inspect and remove unwanted metadata
What's fun about that, is that fonts are copyrightable, but typefaces are not.
Is that in a particular land or what? Could you give a source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces?wprov=sfla1
Whats the difference?
Basically style vs the instructions that make up the font. It’s lead to a lot of rip offs (see: Helvetica vs. Arial).
Awesome, thank you! I'll try that