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solardev on May 7, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Remnants of a legendary typeface have been rescued...

Interestingly, the font seems to be copyrighted because it's code...?

So if you see someone's web font, can you print it out and then redigitize it into a font and bypass copyright that way...?

wizzwizz4 on May 7, 2024 [–]

As I understand, yes: but that'll be inferior to the original, since it won't have ligatures or hinting or anything. It's a lot of work for not a lot of benefit.

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