[ChristianGeek]

It depends on exactly what is learned from looking through them. If you end up copying shapes and segments then there are possible grounds for a lawsuit. If you’re able to determine the rules to make a good font from your analysis, however, then nothing is stopping you from applying them.

[fennecfoxy]

Yeah but honestly how much diversity does a font have? You say copying shapes and segments etc, but if you look at a genre of fonts, say scifi ones, they all have very similar features, usually with one big "character" difference (sometimes barely even that).

How is it possible to create something 100% unique when it's meant to fill a particular genre? The genre exists because it's a group of similar things.