Crazy TTF's

 

With weird looking fonts being highly popular in the print industry, I'll be making a few styles to be included in new lettering software that should be ready around Jan 2013. In my general discussions on fonts, and font related stuff, it's necessary to note that many are also involved in print, sublimation and other aspects like etching/ laser engraving etc.

One prob that always faces many, is trying to locate a TTF to match embroidery fonts they have. This is usually difficult because in many cases no TTF may exist because embroidery fonts do have numerous modifications, and even if they are based on existing fonts, all do undergo various changes to avoid infringement issues etc. Also, many styles are hand drawn, so no vectors may exist.

Of course, there are hundreds of thousands of TTF's out there , and while it is actually 90% infringement to convert those to embroidery fonts, especially in TTF converters it would seem that nobody really bothers too much about this, because it happens anyway. I did hear some professional TTF creators talking legal action against embroidery software conversion of their fonts in general, with their push being that embroidery software developers do not really have any of their own fonts installed or licensed to warrant that TTF conversion.

Well, like many other things I always come across this is probably a matter that will get little or no attention because unless a Buffet is a TTF creator, I just can't see anything legally going against embroidery software developers. It's a bit like MP3 converters I guess..It's easy absolution to say ' Only convert music you created' ..LOL..and the chance of that is closer to ZERO unless you're a singer or run a band.

Look, but don't touch..Use freely..but only for 'yourself' ..download free..but pay if you want to use..Print, but only up to 1000!...Modify as you like, but do not change!...Create, but do not derive. Listen, but hear partially..lol.

Generally, in regard to fonts, my take is that there are probably millions now and my BIG issue with most claiming to be the sole creators is that if you look at their work, it is also derived from from, and based on existing works..and even then, there is no real way to know if that is really the original work. It's a bit different to oil paintings I think.

In a spat between Corel and Adobe, I once read something that in a nutshell went something like this:
' Corel has found piracy very useful, because it shows that people are using more of 'their' products:).
Really??..It's the world of double standards in action. You have to be nonplussed by that!
It's called 'inconvenient truths'..something like 'gaffs' I guess, because that's when you accidentally say what you really think..it may even be the truth!
( That same double standard exists right in the embroidery world too..so don't get too hung up on what you see as press releases, because many things are really very far from truth in practice)

Overheard after an embroidery seminar on 'anti-piracy' : this from one of the hosting persons to 'someone'. I was munching on a cracker, where I usually am..in the background...listening, just partially.
"Sure you can play the games without slitting a vein. I have 5 of the latest ones. I got em' from this dude that just nicks the chip somehow. Yea man..its murder to pay for that Playstation stuff and the kids want new ones every 2 weeks. Nooo..don't worry about bucks, its not lots. He can get you that cheapso"

So..that was the gist of that..get my point? No further comment.


Anyway, so much for fonts and inconvenient truths...It's almost election time,so I have to create time to watch that. Time to work! My budgie would have said ' Romney by a feather'.According to a tortoise, it's Obama by a hare..and a bull says that Romney is raising the steaks, so I guess that makes it a hare-raising finish or maybe its just lotsa bull. A turkey declined to comment broadly... simply stating that it's prepared to wait it out although the coming season could make any long-term plans short lived.
A panda in Chengdu had this to say ..' It's all not so simply just black and white, but who am I to talk about a color divide? I'd probably get a black eye for saying it, but ministers here think that being labeled a 'currency manipulator' could force a massive rise in the costs of I-Phone production, further diminishing US freedoms, and the power to merely comment at will. As it is scans for lead content in inks have diminished our 'Made in USA' print label exports raising further fears of trade restrictions and protectionism. I'm a bit bearish in the current spluttering 'recovery' ..difficult for me to be bullish, but if I had to be this would all probably make this election a new animal.