charges (1) - Abstract Fonts

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Those remarks are both cruel and unbecoming. Of course two fonts of John Lennon's handwriting are going to look similar. It doesn't mean that one is a ripoff of another. Just because Letraset made a commercial font "inspired" by John Lennon's handwriting, and charges $40 for it, doesn't mean someone else can't use a similar source to make a free one of their own. It's based on someone's handwriting. Of course they're going to look alike!. It would be a ripoff if the Goo Goo Gjoob font was modified to create a free one, but two different people can use the same "inspiration", and it isn't plagiarism just because someone did it first.. There are many documents available that contain Lennon's handwriting, and Analia's source is not necessarily Letraset's font. I checked the metadata with Studio5, and there's no evidence that another font was modified to make Analia's, and it's not as if Goo Goo Gjoob is an original creation, conceived by Letraset. There aren't all that many designers putting new fonts up here. That sort of reply doesn't really inspire others to do so. - re: johnlennon, normal