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by erie 890 days ago
Fun fact on the first Windows 95 fonts in Arabic, is that Microsoft decided to go cheap. and not to pay Boutros Fonts, a London-based type foundry that design Arabic fonts, and bought a cheaper derivative 'pirated' copy of that same font for $5k. A lengthy legal battle ensued with Microsoft ultimately winning it out of might of its $$ and legal team.
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I heard a similar story between Arial and Helvetica.