Putting out work with one of these mangled rips is a giveaway. Experienced type designers will be able to look at a well known font and tell if, for example, the serifs look a little off. The rippers/posters of these fonts will often give a heads-up about it. Parts of letters or sometimes whole letters come out a bit mangled. Some things to note: some of the rips of fonts that are put up in these threads aren't 100% accurate. You likely won't face a lawsuit for small infractions (at least, I've never heard of a lawsuit being brought up over small infractions), but being called out on it publicly could have a negative effect on your career and reputation as a designer. Being caught and called out on it goes beyond financial repercussions that come with being sued. I don't want to mislead you into thinking that you will absolutely get caught, but the possibility exists. When you buy a license for a font, the font foundry has a copy of the invoice to check against to see if a person or studio has legitimately purchased the font. Also, just being a terrible designer can offer up a red flag. If you are using a $300 font to design shirts for redbubble or some other shitty site, that might throw up a red flag to some people. If something you make flies under the radar and few people see it, then they would obviously have no way of knowing. I don't know specifically how they can tell. The reason you should buy original files is because they will contain both of these naming systems and will, of course, be correct. The reason there can be unlimited styles under one family name in Illustrator, etc is the OT Family Name and OT Style Name, which are only used in OpenType aware applications like Illustrator. Then there would be Helvetica Black which contains black and black italic.etc. For example, there would be Helvetica which contains regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. In this naming system (for use in Word for example), there can only be 4 different Style Names, and when a family has more than four styles is must be shown as multiple families. In an OTF file you have two methods of grouping styles under family names within the software that's reading the font.Įach font has to have a unique PS (postscript) Font Name, a Family Name (ie. What you're talking about is not called a meta tag.
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