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Fonts cannot be copyrighted. They may, on occasion, be subject to a design patent when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office can identify a novel and non-obvious typeface design. (This apparently relates to the manner in which a font scales to size using a software designer's algorithms.) The details of how one font…

Typeface is exempted from copyright protections, see carode's reply. (I checked using the resources available to me as a paralegal, and he or she appears to be entirely correct.)

You are 100% correct.

Something tells me it doesn't work in zero-G.

All I know is Wingding works great for picture books.

Flaming Tetherball needs be in the next Olympic Games.

If only the dock had Roomba-like abilities to search out the Roomba for a proper dock.

I learn something new every day.

Never heard the reference before, but I'm a comic book layman. So, you're an Helvetica fan?

Well, that's all that matters then.

Are fonts copyrighted? I image they could. Don't know how MS could get away with such an accurate rip off if so.

That's a joke about the average age an Apple user, yes?

Get it now, while oxygen supplies last!

Awesome, thanks.

I like Calibri, but I'm up in the air about which is more readable subjectively, Ariel or Calibri.

That's my point...? They just took a font that's fallen out of favor and replaced it with a virtually identical font under a new name. In fact, I don't think MS Word even comes with Helvetica anymore.

I'm just joshing, CatLady. Most people can't hardly tell them apart.

Eh?