Fonts for Complex Data
Legal status of fonts and typefaces is INSANE. The cost of some of these fonts in $199 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.typography.com&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;isotope&#x2F;overview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.typography.com&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;isotope&#x2F;overview&#x2F;</a>  And well you can kind of have a strange position in copyright law in the US and internationally.<p>The cost of these fonts are up in the hundreds of dollars. Yet in US we have a mixed bag. Officially it is:<p>&gt; Typefaces cannot be protected by copyright in the United States (Code of Federal Regulations, Ch 37, Sec. 202.1(e); Eltra Corp. vs. Ringer). The idea that typefaces (rather than fonts, which are computer software) cannot be copyrighted in the United States is black letter law. 37 C.F.R. § 202.1(e). Under U.S. law, typefaces and their letter forms or glyphs are considered utilitarian objects whose public utility outweighs any private interest in protecting their creative elements.<p>BUT we have cases where judgement has been awarded to Adobe and Target is a defendant in a lawsuit for their use of a unlicensed font in a video.<p>I am conflicted. I love having fonts and I love open source, BUT I also appreciate the technical and artistic achievement these fonts produce.<p>The BEST font for me has been Cardo and it has had the best license ever <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholarsfonts.net&#x2F;cardofnt.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholarsfonts.net&#x2F;cardofnt.html</a> I studied several &quot;ancient languages&quot; and a font Cardo saved my academic life by making an awesome unicode font for my languages. One font for English, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin and others. Before that I had to write my papers in Latex just to cover the languages or transliterate them (ugh).<p>Here is a font author that I have used and even purchased fonts from. She now has a donation based price model. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dafont.com&#x2F;kimberly-geswein.d1468" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dafont.com&#x2F;kimberly-geswein.d1468</a><p>Hoping she has success with this model and switches more to this model and it works for everyone.<p>Microsoft&#x27;s Font FAQ - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;typography&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;font-faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;typography&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;font-faq</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intellectual_property_protecti...</a>