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by kleiba 1377 days ago
Nice idea, but how do you get around the potential copyright infringement?
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wasmitnetzen 1377 days ago
There's not copyright in the US on a typeface (the look), you can only have copyrights on the individual implementation (the font)[1].

[1]: https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/font-law-licensing/

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kleiba 1377 days ago
I suppose the font was originally created in Sweden, though, right?
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yreg 1377 days ago
They pixel-perfectly copied and recreated it in BitFontMaker2[0] (source[1]).

Not a nice thing to do to a type designer or a foundry, but a gaming studio/Notch(?) won't probably care.

[0] - https://www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/bitfontmaker2/

[1] - https://github.com/IdreesInc/Minecraft-Font

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