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'skypeTM' should be colored white per brand guidelinesĬolors // Editing SVG source code using User:Rillke/SVGedit.js upload handled by User:Rillke/MwJSBot.jsįrom the app on Windows 8. It is also included in certain Microsoft products like Office 2010. Berthold AG Helvetica = Linotype Arial = Monotype Maxima = Helvetica of the former East German Republic (they did not want to use the font of the enemy).Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. The Skype logo features the font Arial Rounded MT Bold, which was created by Robin Nicholas in 1993 and is commercially available. So, just look into the owners of the fonts that seem undistinguishable for you, and the whole thing starts making sense: Akzidenz Grotesk = H. Not so much for the look-a-like of the single character, but for the metadata like 'aesthetics letter widths'. This development, in general, worsened the font quality. These copies can be recognized by their silly names.

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VERY MANY fonts of the professional typesetting world were cloned again when Desktop Publishing emerged, to avoid license fees in the PostScript world. Sometimes the cloning font lab was better than the original and the clone came out better than the original. All the many variants we have of the Helvetica, like the Akzidenz Grotesk, the Normal Grotesk, the Neue Haas Grotesk, the Arial etc, have their motives not so much in readability or artistic reasons, but rather in license conflicts of different type foundries. There have been lots of lawsuits, where judges had to decide whether two fonts are distinguishable enough, or have to be considered illegal copies. Often, there was a big pressure to provide a certain font style within the vendors system environment, and so it was common to clone the popular fonts if they were owned by someone else. So all big manufacturers spent a lot of money for their own type labs AND for lawyers! I grew up in the font atelier of the H.Berthold AG in Taufkirchen, near Munich, where my father was working and I witnessed as a teenager, how they digitized the lead fonts into fototype fonts - an incredible laborous and artistic job. Fonts were not interchangeable between vendors and owning a good font collection with a lot of fashionable fonts could influence the system decision for the typesetting machinery.

A type shop would often spend more money for the fonts than for the machinery (and the typeshop I was working for even had a dedicated insurance for the glas plates).Īll the modern copyright laws existed already at this time and the big problem was, that a certain fontstyle would become fashionable (like Helvetica!) in the designers world, but only one type foundry owned the font.

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A single typeface (like Helvetica 55) would cost around 800 German Marks (roughly 550 US$ today) as a mercury-metallized glas plate from Berthold, containing the full character set. All the time, they also provided the fonts for their machinery and this fonts were very expensive. Later they started to develop mechanical machinery for typesetting (especially Linotype) and soon after they started to develop machinery for fototypesetting (making way for the wide spread use of offset-printing, replacing letterpress printing). They created printing characters of lead. The story is this: all the big typesetting companies, like Berthold, Linotype, Monotype and so on, have been type foundries originally. I had 19 of 20 (the Toyota-capitals are too hard to distinguish).

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