koeiekat posts - Forum

Sep 01, 2011 at 16:24 [reply] Question about licensing

@Claude
Yes, you're right. I was referring to the digital version. Sorry for the confusion.
Your remark about the Q made me curious so I have done a bit of Kells digging. The list is as usual not complete but you'll notice that the fast majority is copied/cloned name it whatever you like by notorious font copiers/cloners, including B&P and its brothers and sisters.

@Toto
As you can see in the link above there are only three original digital versions. Alas, the rest are rip-offs. And yes, also commercial versions can be rip-offs. Remember the Bitstream story?

On 'quality', when I say badly made I don't refer to the shape. That is as you say a matter of taste and has nothing to do with quality. Quality has to do with the technical aspects of a font. How well is it made, are there no (serious) errors and/or omissions. And that, indeed, has nothing to do with 'commercial' or 'free'.
Take your Lettre Dans Le Decor, nicely made and very clean. Cleaner than many, many commercial fonts but, on the other hand, why are the glyphs in random order? Why not sort them? That, imho, would turn a good font into a perfect one. See, not a word about lacking capitals and so, I know you had only lower case and numbers in the sample, because that has nothing to do with quality.

Have fun.

Aug 31, 2011 at 14:36 [reply] Ecriture !

Strange.

Aug 31, 2011 at 12:35 [reply] Ecriture !

Ahh, you're an apple. I guess it has to do with the definition PS uses on Mac. On my PSP screendump you can see that only at 7pt you have exactly the same size and an exact match for a and ~.

Aug 31, 2011 at 11:56 [reply] Ecriture !

I'm really puzzled, at what size do we have a match?

Aug 31, 2011 at 11:35 [reply] Classroom Name :: PLEASE HELP ME

S, S, S. Graffiti by assixs.

Aug 31, 2011 at 11:33 [reply] Ecriture !

I don't know how you can achieve that with 9pt but at 7pt, yes.

Aug 31, 2011 at 01:19 [reply] Ecriture !

... did Sacha ... did. Just blown up. That is Verdana at 9pt, no AA.

Aug 31, 2011 at 01:17 [reply] Costa Rica

... but ... barca ... daaams just did ...

Aug 30, 2011 at 22:14 [reply] Personal Use??

Private website? Nothing on offer for sale? No Google adwords? Nothing that smells like money? And why are you so scared to tell which font?

What is ‘personal use’ ?
Anything that is NON-PROFIT and NON-BUSINESS RELATED. Examples include; your personal website or blog (that does not contain adverts or pay-per-click links), your school homework or course work, your own birthday invitations (made and printed by you) and family scrapbooks.

What is ‘commercial use’ ?
Anything that is NON-PERSONAL, ANYTHING RELATED TO BUSINESS or ANYTHING THAT IS SOLD, including non-profit. Examples include; business websites, portfolio websites, school websites, church websites, logos, business cards, letterheads, brochures, leaflets, posters, merchandise, t-shirts, books, magazines, retail packaging, advertisements, TV broadcast and movie credits.

Aug 30, 2011 at 22:09 [reply] Question about licensing

Stonehenge vs KellsFLF: http://www.dafont.com/es/font-comment.php?file=stonehenge

On Rosslaire; B&P Graphics, Brendel Informatik, Softmaker and under whichever other name they have operated only have renamed copies of other fonts, like WSI, SSI, SSK only (sometimes) slightly changing one or two glyphs. A long, long story of type theft.

The Stonehenge variant is the worst one ever made.

Aug 30, 2011 at 21:37 [reply] Ecriture !

OK. Got it. But in that case it is not the Verdana. Verdana runs wider and also the tilde doesn't match.

Traffic light jumps from green to orange

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Edit 1: Sorry, typo.
Edit 2: image added.

Edited 2 times. Last edit on Aug 30, 2011 at 22:46 by koeiekat

Aug 30, 2011 at 21:19 [reply] Question about licensing

Stonehenge has no author. It is a badly made rip-off Casady & Greene's KellsFLF. Stonehenge lacks some characters, has no kerning, has no Panose information nor Unicode ranges and code pages.
A better made version of this font is the Gandalf created by Viktor Kharyk.
My advice, if you want to use a font for your company's house style invest the few $/€ and get the Gandalf, quality included. If you don't, in the end you will be sorry that you started off with low quality.

Aug 30, 2011 at 19:47 [reply] How to use with MS Word

For Office you must install a font before starting an Office application otherwise Office doesn't know about it.

Aug 30, 2011 at 18:21 [reply] Font Editing

If you use a good font converter no-one will see the difference - unless they use a font editor.

Aug 30, 2011 at 18:17 [reply] and thisfont?

The Alor (under whatever name it is around) doesn't even look like it.

Edited on Aug 30, 2011 at 18:18 by koeiekat

Aug 30, 2011 at 18:14 [reply] Ecriture !

Verdana as a bitmap?

Aug 30, 2011 at 16:17 [reply] typo de ces numéros

Always a bit complicated under an angle like this but after perspective correction, looking at the 4 and the serifs I opt for the Consort RR Medium Condensed.

Suggested font: Consort RR Medium Condensed

Aug 30, 2011 at 15:33 [reply] Unzipped Font not showing up

No.

Aug 30, 2011 at 15:32 [reply] Question about licensing

Als je nou eens begint met te vertellen over welk lettertype je het hebt dan kunnen wij uitzoeken of we de auteur kunnen vinden.