23 Jul
2005
23 Jul
'05
12:05 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Andrew K. Bressen wrote:
some of the original postscript fonts were licensed
from
them by adobe; they seem to own helvetica, optima, and palatino
among others. They merged with Hell, a printing press maker,
around 1990. Today they exist as a font vendor, owned by Heidelberg
(probably the world's foremost printing press maker).
They actually do not own the FONTS (or typefaces) but they own
(trademark) the NAMES "Helvetica", "Times Roman", etc.
Anybody can make a similar, or even copy, of the font,
but they have to pay to use the name.
(Think "Arial")