<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Irrespective of the mysteries of copyright law (which are precisely what I'm trying to avoid by making an OSF anyway), it will have obviously different aesthetic "decisions", which are the defining factor. And by "decisions", I mean "mistakes".</div><div><br></div><div>-Joshua</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:34 -0400, Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Well, I need something both low-contrast and modern for this project.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I might even start with DIN or Futura. Not sure yet. In any event, I'm<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">pretty sure I don't have the subtlety of eye to deal with Bodoni.<br></blockquote><br>Watch out that although typefaces designed by US citizens in the US<br>are not protected by copyright, other countries, and in particular<br>Germany, do have copyright for typeface designs...<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>(and the US does have copyright treaties these days, so if a design<br>is copyright in Germany or Fance or the UK (say), that copyright<br>is to be respected in the US... although it might be hard to<br>enforce because of past cases)<br><br>Liam<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/">http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/</a><br>Pictures from old books: <a href="http://fromoldbooks.org/">http://fromoldbooks.org/</a><br>Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org <a href="http://www.advogato.org">www.advogato.org</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="text-align: right; "><a href="http://joshuanewmandesign.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF5903">Joshua Newman Design</font></a></div><div style="text-align: right; ">401.225.7222</div></div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>