Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:35 am
I didn't like how they crippled general Gimp discussion on GC in a tsunami of other people's fonts.
Wed Dec 20, 2023 7:10 am
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Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:58 pm
Tas_mania wrote:Hi Guys, if you look at Welcome To Font Chat you can see my issue was never about copyright.
One week ago GC had 10 posts per page. A lot of them were about fonts. Because of the industrial scale font re-homing, font posts were nearly always at the top. People were leaving. (I was one of them)
That was the issue and it's been fixed as Wallace doubled the number of posts on the landing page thanks mostly to Skinnyhouse
Discovering the fonts sometimes breached copyright was a surprise and I know for sure GC now hosts copyright fonts. Personally I don't care because as a decades long Linux user, I know that open source is the development model of choice and it's not copyright.
I have done graphics design including posters and I know the more decorated a font the less likely it can be used. Maybe one long word or 2 short words. It has always been about the message not the font you could say. I'm open to advice on this. Language is a complex subject with many countries still using 'picture writing'. On that basis these fonts are limited because how many Chinese or Arabic fonts have the font guys done? I didn't see any.
I think our alphabet is more advanced than right to left writing or picture writing models.
Alphabet is a representation of the spoken word. For me decorating letters detracts from the underlying language and meaning. Again open to advice on that one
I'm 72 next year, when I was 16 I worked at Australia's largest daily newspaper that had compositors using metal fonts. We worked all night. I remember the typesetters and how they worked, the smell of the printers ink. All that is just a memory.
Thu Dec 21, 2023 9:57 am
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Skinnyhouse wrote:Thanks Wallace.
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