Typographica

There’s really no excuse for offering revivals of typefaces without mention of source material (leaving aside any due diligence in contacting the original designer/estate), but this has become a sort of Instagram standard.

I can’t understand how you can soak in gobs of 🔥😍👏 knowing that you’re deceiving your followers.

One such designer told me they didn’t think IG was the right place for descriptions. And yet their website has no info and they sell directly in an IG shop 🤔.

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Sep 17, 2023 at 5:59pmWeb
Show threadTypographicaSep 17, 2023
Just tell the story of what inspired you and how you made it your own. It’s not only the right thing to do, it makes your product better.
Show threadTypographicaSep 19, 2023
This topic really hit a nerve on Instagram, and/or text-as-image posts do really well there, because this got more likes than anything I ever posted. https://www.instagram.com/p/CxTmdDfyiCk/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Show threadDavid JONESJun 17
@typographica where should mentions of source materials go?
Show threadRyan BugdenJun 17
@typographica @drj Where people will see them
Show threadDavid JONESJun 17

@ryan @typographica No, Ryan, i do not think that you are suggesting that i rename my font "Rainbow Rocket" to "Rainbow Rocket (following Schaefer Versalien, Lucina, and Filicudi (Ulrike Rausch))". This is not a theoretical example: https://drj11.itch.io/rainbow-rocket-font.

If you have a serious answer to my question i would seriously like to see it. In the Description field? (which i've seen); in the blurb on the website (like mine)? in a specimen? in a process-note blog post?

Rainbow Rocket Font by David Jones (CubicType)

A colour font from CubicType. Made in Yorkshire by David Jones.

itch.io
Show threadRyan BugdenJun 17
@typographica @drj I’m not sure why what I said was interpreted as “rename your font”. I also didn’t realize this was a personal question.
Show threadDavid JONESJun 17
@ryan fair. and still no answers i see. It wasn't so much personal as relevant. And yes, renaming a font is sarcastic (somewhat). I'm pretty sure that someone using a font is going to see the title, but no one looks anywhere else. So i'm pretty sure they are not going to see a note in the Description field (or the Designers, which i've used), or a website, or a blog.
Show threadRyan BugdenJun 17
@drj Would it be satisfying to you for a random individual to arbitrarily provide specific guidelines on where to place credit to the original source? I’m not sure what your aim is here. This thread is about designers who do not make good-faith attempts at crediting their inspiration. Keyword is good-faith; there is no set rule.
Show threadDavid JONESJun 17

@ryan at this point, no it wouldn't be satisfying. But it seems weird to raise a specific point, designers should give credit, and then not have any more specific advice about how it might be appropriate to give credit.

Ii'm like ok, designers should give credit, i agree. But where?

If designers have expectations around this, but don't communicate them, it's seems churlish to chastise people for not meeting those expectations.

(in case you haven't guessed, i'm an outsider: maths degree)

Show threadRyan BugdenJun 17
@drj The person in question did not give any credit. My statement is that they should have. So apparently we are not even at the “where” yet. And yes, this is more subjective than math. If you’re looking for feedback on how you credited, 👍 (I get the sense that you may have thought the original post was referencing you).
Show threadDavid JONESJun 17

@ryan no, i didn't think the original was referencing me (because are you likely to release a font even a little bit like Rainbow Rocket? no), but we've all been in these situations.

In this particular thread, you jumped in on a question that i had posed in a reply to @ Typographica, which frankly is, again, a bit weird if you're not prepared to expand on that.

Show threadTypographicaJun 17
@drj In every place where the typeface is described in more than a sentence or two. But hopefully in the short texts too.
Show threadDavid JONESJun 17
@typographica yeah that seems reasonable (at least for text i write). And is in practice what i do. It's a nice nudge to add it to the Description field of the font file too. Quite like finding easter eggs in a font's Description field tbh.
Show threadtripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪Jun 17

@typographica „I can’t understand how you can soak in gobs of 🔥😍👏 knowing that you’re deceiving your followers.“

I mean, that is what instagram is all about. It’s a garbage factory for shameless assholes.

Show threadLunar 🛸 ♾Jun 17
@tripleman @typographica If you're not blatantly nicking stuff and hiding watermarks beneath funny captions, you're not Instagramming right, as is my understanding
Show threadtripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪Jun 17
@lunarloony it's praxis.