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[Acorn]

Nancy, I think I found your free font: https://www.ffonts.net/OPTIPeach-EtD....font.download

Here is my construction using it: Jerry's Furniture (Fonted).xar

Acorn

[mwenz]

Nancy, I think I found your free font: https://www.ffonts.net/OPTIPeach-EtD....font.download

Here is my construction using it: Jerry's Furniture (Fonted).xar

Acorn

For your reading pleasure...

http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-27506.html

[Acorn]

For your reading pleasure... http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-27506.html

Thank you. Are you offering advice that the Font is stolen, bogus or just badly designed?
If any of these, is not the onus on the people offering them for free, not to perpetuate a wrong?

I would have preferred straight over cryptic or mysterious.

Acorn

[mwenz]

Thank you. Are you offering advice that the Font is stolen, bogus or just badly designed?
If any of these, is not the onus on the people offering them for free, not to perpetuate a wrong?

I would have preferred straight over cryptic or mysterious.

Acorn

I would prefer people draw their own conclusions from that, and other, links concerning Castcraft/Opti fonts.

But no. The onus is on the end user. Ignorance and all that not being an excuse.

I can download cracked Xara software for free, without paying anyone. Tell me this. Who's at fault in the eyes of Xara, the law, my neighbor's cat: Me, the end user or the website offering stolen software?

[Acorn]

I would prefer people draw their own conclusions from that, and other, links concerning Castcraft/Opti fonts.
But no. The onus is on the end user. Ignorance and all that not being an excuse.
I can download cracked Xara software for free, without paying anyone. Tell me this. Who's at fault in the eyes of Xara, the law, my neighbor's cat: Me, the end user or the website offering stolen software?

I do hope your neighbour is not Herr Erwin Schrödinger because someone keeps trying to poison his cat.
In law, there has to be intent. So if you crack Xara's stuff, you deserve censure. A right-minded citizen might warn ahead around OPTI and font theft. Those who knowingly sell in breach of copyright, even free, are culpable of misrepresentation. Else one might now have to be wary of listening to any Internet music stations, lest they have failed to pay for the right; I doubt if the authorities come knocking doors of their listeners, shouting "Cover your ears!"

Best we take this up in the Off-Topic Chat forum.

Acorn

[handrawn]

before you do can I just jump in and say [in uk at least] antyone earning money from cracked software is guilty of fraud; anyone offering it for free, breach of copyright unless it is allowed in the EULA; fonts probably too

as a user you are expected to take reasonable care to avoid such, and if it is discovered that you are, to immediately 'cease-and-desist'; if you knew all along you might be culpable, it would depend on circumstances...

[yellowbird]

Nancy, I think I found your free font: https://www.ffonts.net/OPTIPeach-EtD....font.download

Here is my construction using it: Jerry's Furniture (Fonted).xar

Acorn

Hi Acorn, certainly looks like the font. When I enlarge the letters, they aren't all perfect either. Like mine, they are not all exactly the same height or aligned top or/and bottom exactly etc. So because of legality issues discussed here I could just stick with my version. I am a little indecisive, because if I found a pay for version for say $30, I would have the entire series of letters. The way you created the shapes for the J, is more accurate, and does have the slotting for the top of the J - I can't decide which I like better. Your cutout triangles in the F are larger and look better, and now I can't decide if I like the cutout in the left straight part with the little triangle cutout you made or or leaving it straight better. Thank you for for providing these options.

Nancy

[Acorn]

Hi Acorn, certainly looks like the font. When I enlarge the letters, they aren't all perfect either. Like mine, they are not all exactly the same height or aligned top or/and bottom exactly etc. So because of legality issues discussed here I could just stick with my version. I am a little indecisive, because if I found a pay for version for say $30, I would have the entire series of letters. The way you created the shapes for the J, is more accurate, and does have the slotting for the top of the J - I can't decide which I like better. Your cutout triangles in the F are larger and look better, and now I can't decide if I like the cutout in the left straight part with the little triangle cutout you made or or leaving it straight better. Thank you for for providing these options.

Nancy

Nancy, it has been a learning curve for all of us. Your design is very good as is so use that. When I tried the font, I had to kern, track and baseline shift almost every letter to get things lined up.
Using inset and outset contours is a very powerful tool.

Should you want to use the Font, do convert to Editable Shapes and ungroup twice. You then have a separate shape for each gylph.
The F then becomes a White shape over the black letter F. You can then Slice Shapes to get a cut-out.

Apologies for offering so many choices.

Acorn