Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Michael. I could not imagine that URW Palladio L corresponds > to Palatino. Font copyright status is ... interesting. It turns out that it's a lot easier to protect the trademark name of a font than it is to protect the shape of the letters. So an independent font "very nearly" the same as the original font needs a different name -- and one different enough not to fall foul of trademark law. http://www.typeright.org/feature4.html http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html (the "What is really strange about Arial" paragraph) Intriguingly, http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsia.html says: The designer of Palatino, Herman Zapf, has been known to do off-name versions of his own typefaces for other foundries (notably Bitstream)... And http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/palladio/ says URW Palladio Designed by: Hermann Zapf Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | ... File not found, I'll load something *I* think @westexe.demon.co.uk | is interesting.
