Comment by tecleandor Comment by tecleandor a day ago 3 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News You can trace it, I guess...
Copy Link whstl 17 hours ago Collapse Comment - What if you convert it to bitmap, instead of shipping a TTF/WOFF/etc? Does it still counts as shipping the font... or not? Reply View | 2 replies Copy Link bluescrn 17 hours ago Parent Next Collapse Comment - And if you generate a set of bitmaps/sprites of individual glyphs from the font (e.g. to use as a bitmap font in a game), is that different to shipping an image with more specific uses of the font baked in, e.g. a logo/title image? Reply View | 0 replies Copy Link trinix912 12 hours ago Parent Prev Collapse Comment - No, because a font is licensed as a computer program that generates those glyphs. The glyphs themselves aren’t copyrightable. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link bluescrn 17 hours ago Parent Next Collapse Comment - And if you generate a set of bitmaps/sprites of individual glyphs from the font (e.g. to use as a bitmap font in a game), is that different to shipping an image with more specific uses of the font baked in, e.g. a logo/title image? Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link trinix912 12 hours ago Parent Prev Collapse Comment - No, because a font is licensed as a computer program that generates those glyphs. The glyphs themselves aren’t copyrightable. Reply View | 0 replies
What if you convert it to bitmap, instead of shipping a TTF/WOFF/etc? Does it still counts as shipping the font... or not?