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I'd love to see old video game fonts here. Pokemon, Zelda, etc. Though I'm sure there would be rights issues.


I think if they are bitmap fonts, they are uncopyrightable? At least in the USA.


Even a giant font where every character is a fax page of one of Apple's secret stolen design documents?


That’s not how the law works, it’s not like you’re sending invalid input to hack a program.

For a judge the design of a character is not protected by IP law. Some font formats are because they are like a program. But a bitmap of a character is not. And a fax page of whatever is not a bitmap of a character.




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