Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2013-03-15 um 10:06 schrieb TaoCG:

> This is all very interesting, I'd love to have a jazz style font in LilyPond,
> though I don't particularly like the Sigler Jazz font. I much prefer their
> Swing font.
> I was still wondering if there won't be any license issues if the font is
> redrawn manually since in the end everyone familiar with the Sigler fonts
> will recognize it as such or some might even say: "Hey look, they're using
> the same jazz font as Finale/Sibelius."

No, the look of a font isn’t copyrighted, but the name is sometimes a trademark 
- that’s why a lot of lookalikes exist whose names point to the original, like 
"Zurich" or "Swiss" for "Helvetica".


Greetlings, Hraban
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