View Single Post
  #107  
Old September 11th 17, 08:50 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps,rec.photo.digital
Chaya Eve
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 94
Default Technical & legal background using copyrighted fonts in custom road signs in PowerPoint

On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 01:43:29 -0600, "Andre G. Isaak"
wrote:

What I mean would be most apparent if you open the font in a
font-editing program such as FontLab and look at the actual outlines.
The lowercase o and u would be good characters to look at. Also, a
number of characters (e.g. ae, oe, thorn, eth, the quotation marks)
appear to be taken from an entirely different typeface. Finally, the
font lacks many fairly important kerning pairs.

But, I suppose, you get what you pay for.


What matters is sign legibility under various conditions and how
"printable" it is (given how signs are made mostly using vinyl stickers
which need to be tear resistant).

Did you post yet a simple comparison of one of the signs given?