Look-alike fonts

[Michael Brady]

Luc Devroye has compiled a exhausting, comprehensive, detailed, and thorough website of links to fonts, fonts, fonts, type designers, publications on type and graphic design, and much much more. His site is:

http://luc.devroye.org/

Among all of those pages and links are several lists of type analogues or alias names (typefaces that are virtually identical but go by different names). Here are several of them:

http://luc.devroye.org/BitstreamFontAnalog.html

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/part5/ [Scroll down to §1.32, "Equivalent Font Names," which is the last 85% of the webpage.]

http://web.archive.org/web/19990418050634/http://www.stack.nl/~gejans/alias1.htm [page background is very distracting]

http://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_33.htm#SEC132 [one page of a much larger website, dated 1996, but the creator announced it was the last update of the site]

http://luc.devroye.org/InfiniType--Catalog.pdf [PDF of a catalog of InfinitiType fonts, listing their fonts and corresponding typeface designs from other companies.]

http://luc.devroye.org/serial.txt [Traditional typeface names and their equivalences in Serial Type, later TypeShop (and some with Eisner and Flake}.]





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[Karol Keane]

Wow! Thank you.
Happy new year
Karol

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[Bret Perry]

Nice!
Thanks and Happy New Year!

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[Sharon Villines]

On Dec 29, 2014, at 10:51 PM, Michael Brady <mich...@michaelbradydesign.com> wrote:

> \Among all of those pages and links are several lists of type analogues or alias names (typefaces that are virtually identical but go by different names).


Lovely lists. How do people deal with this? Delete one and make a note? Use the alias name or the "real" name?

Thank you,
Sharon
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[William Adams]

Always use the real font --- that's the one which the designer should have been paid for.

[Stephen Marsh]

Nice find Michael!

I once started to compile a similar sort of list when I was working on the front lines:

http://prepression.blogspot.com.au/2008/10/typeface-is-similar-but-different-to.html

Stephen Marsh

[Michael Brady]

vWilliam wrote:

> Always use the real font --- that's the one which the designer should have been paid for.

Many fonts are illegal or borderline illegal knockoffs (there have been some lawsuits about infringement of copyrights *to the computer code that defines the outlines of the fonts*, not to the design per se, which cannot be protected by copyright or patent). But many others are legitimate duplicates of fonts, e.g., Zapf Humanist is a duplication of Optima, and Book Antiqua is a duplication of Palatino authorized by Herman Zapf himself. In other instances, a type manufacturer or publisher bought rights to a face and issued it under their own name. (Sorry, I can't recall specific examples.) In other cases, particularly before digital type was introduced, different type foundries and manufacturers copied other type designs and produced their own fonts (e.g., Mergenthaler's Helvetica was 'cloned' by Compugraphic and called Triumvirate; CG also registered a version of Helvetica and called it Helios; Varityper registered theirs as Megaron; etc.).

Here is an enlightening article about this very topic at Smashing Magazine:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/14/font-wars-story-on-rivalry-between-type-foundries/



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