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and you did it poorly.

Interesting. Are the inconsistencies in the height of the letters taken from the source r just an oversight?

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I believe that ShadzX may have took some inspiration from this font I created (which is this one: Eleva Kleeman) which is based from Carl Makkinga's version of the same font, but changed some parts so that it does not looke like it was a direct clone of what I have created, and to prevent any legal trouble from me.

@Vienna Binders I see.

'legal trouble from me..'   (rite...)   ?

@Vienna Vinders: Let me bring u in on a dirty little secret and fact:

Up to this very day it is pretty damn impractical to protect a typeface under copyright law due to a number of reasons that have to do with the way a tapeface works internally.

This means that copyright law protects only the font software or typeface name, not the artistic design of the typeface. So you can lawfully re-trace it your computer (none of this would involve copying the software or program representing the font.

'Ooopz'  ?

And to piggyback on @Sed4tives's comment, it is nigh impossible to "police" pixel fonts.  With a sufficient sample character set and given enough time, a determined FontStructor can easily recreate ANY pixel font; it's just a rather tedious process...

Basically, it doesn't matter if you turn off cloning or downloads.  More complex FontStructs add higher degrees of difficulties to replication, but with pixel fonts... not so much.

You're right on this. 

I had some font which is also replicated by some other, but that one I took years of dedication to do so (the font I am workingon is not a pixel font), and yet, someone only took like days to reverse-engineer it.

Thanks for the clarification!

Yeah, even with such crazy limited drawing/designer tool that FontStruct essentially is, my opinion is that in many occasions it is just a matter of if that person is having that vision, the kind that allows one to see over the horizon and visualize the things that are hidden from view.  if a person is sleek and crafty enough not a whole lot of fonts would be safe..

And I'm not saying FontStruct by definition is limited ofcourse, but in terms of (high-res) free-form drawing of vectors it kind of is, especially when comparing it to FontLab, Adobe AI or Photoshop and other vector tools..

But nonetheless when I browse the internet looking for new ideas, inspiration, new projects or simply analizing other non-FontStruct type designs, I feel at least like about half of the time (if not more often) that it could be replicated using FontStruct.

So my best advise here is not to be bothered too much with the whole ordeal and just going about your thing. And honestly I don't believe that there is too many people out there that make a hobby or career out of 'copying' FontStructions.

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Thanks for that.