This is childish nonsense. Healthy dose of salt req'd. Click for Serious Cosmo.
So, strictly speaking, this probably didn’t need to happen.
The flagged image, while on the small side, was a nice, lossless .png and may or may not have been better kerned. But it was tagged for SVG, and I was too big an Old School Mac nerd to let it slide.
Plus now you can get it instantly in a 2000 pixel size. TWO THOUSAND PIXELS! For a font originally designed to be rendered as a bitmap on a screen about the width of your Tumblr dashboard.
Internet!
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I’m sorry, but how is this a “freebie”? Is the implication that download for personal use must be explicitly granted by the copyright holder?
If it is, have some bad news—viewing an image on a computer screen across the Internet still involves the transfer of the photo’s data from a server to a local machine—if you can see it, you have downloaded it.
This is a great case illustrating the uselessness of a traditional copyright—how can I print this out without “transferring” it to a piece of paper, let alone a mousepad as the designer implies? What if someone else—the boss the article suggests I try to impress, for example—looks at it on my screen or after I’ve printed it? I’ve violated the copyright by making it “available for use”!
Creative Commons exists specifically to fulfill this void between a traditional meatspace copyright and the realities of digital technology. This image would be far better off released under BY-NC-ND, with specified attribution of 1) the author’s name and 2) a link to this Smashing Magazine article.
That way it could be spread directly across people’s blogs or flickr or any other damn thing that allows <a href>. Though I will readily attest that the Internet is full of dickheads who can’t seem to copy and paste a URL, I will also readily attest that there’s more to be gained than lost with a CC license.
Additionally, the more of the Internet that sees and understands Creative Commons licenses, the more widespread their use and adoption will become. As a web user, you get more stuff, and as a creator, you get more credit, in some cases more money, more stuff to re-use, and a wider audience.
Or you can keep posting stuff with confusing and awkwardly-worded licenses that essentially force people to pirate.
Your call.
(via papertissue)
This would have been a much more appealing chart with this source image. Hell, I cc0’d the damn thing so you wouldn’t even have to attribute it to me.
Maybe I will do this later today.
![Making the Internet better, one scalable vector graphic at a time.
[check it out]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American-typewriter-typeface-spec.svg)
Making the Internet better, one scalable vector graphic at a time.
Ok, look—you can be a dick and act like script typefaces are the devil incarnate and ignore the fact that people are going to use them no matter what. Or you can steer people toward script fonts that don’t completely suck.
Your call.
more wiki contributing. This time: converting x-height comparisons to vector graphic.
See it in action at Akzidenz-Grotesk.
![Let’s see if she notices.
[after this image, which as far as the Internet can tell me, is by Nikola Tamindzic.]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxan9pRyMj1qznfx5o1_r1_400.png)
Let’s see if she notices.
[after this image, which as far as the Internet can tell me, is by Nikola Tamindzic.]
Timely, but too late.
(via @creativecommons)
But I was infinitely more pleasant than any RIAA cease-and-desist order, I can tell you than.
And for every two people I was able to contact, one had no asks, no Formspring or no listed email. Tumblr might want to do something about that.
![This is the AOKP version. For the record, he’s not good at the Internet.
You want to distribute my branded content without saying where you got it, whatever—that’s why my website is stamped all over it. This is different.
[background]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx8kmgy2L41qznfx5o1_400.png)
This is the AOKP version. For the record, he’s not good at the Internet.
You want to distribute my branded content without saying where you got it, whatever—that’s why my website is stamped all over it. This is different.
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