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Typography Weekly #64
Suggested By Riccardo Sartori
The Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery
“Detecting fraud via fonts isn’t as sexy as sleuthing art forgery; it often involves tedious measurements with digital calipers, examinations under loupes and microscopes, charts that track the slight differences between two versions of the Times Roman face, or evidence that a particular form of office printer didn’t exist at the document’s dated execution.”
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How Github became the web's largest font piracy site (and how to fix it)
“When a commercial font ends up where it shouldn’t — for instance on a huge, freely searchable database of code — it’ll most certainly break the terms of the license, and once downloaded from there, it becomes a pirated font.”
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