[FC-discuss] Font used on Homepage

[Christian Pfaab]

Rob Myers wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Karen Rustad <karen.rustad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, I used the "Lessig font" -- p22 typewriter. Nelson, can you send
>> Christian it? Really ought to put it on the FC media dump--we use it often
>> enough...
> 
> It seems like it was offered for free by the designers but isn't any
> more? Is it OK to redistribute it?

I just checked with their support and it seems to  be  OK.

The Fullquote is attached.

Thanks all for your help :)

Cheers
Christian


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Web Form- General Comments
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:06:44 -0500
From: P22 type foundry <p22 at p22.com>
To: Christian Pfaab <christian at pfaab.net>

As long as the license agreement is included and it is clear that if it is
used for commercial purposes that a proper license has to be purchased, then
you may distribute it.

Regards
Richard

On 2/2/09 2:04 PM, "Christian Pfaab" <christian at pfaab.net> wrote:

 > Thanks for your quick answer.
 >
 > So it is OK for others to redistribute the font mentioned as well? Since
 > we will be working with quite a bunch of people and we would like to
 > keep the sources at one point and give it out to students working 
with it.
 >
 > Sorry for my bad English, I am from Germany and do not want to misread
 > legal stuff.
 >
 > Regards,
 > Christian
 >
 > P22 type foundry wrote:
 >> Hello Christian,
 >>
 >> To get the free fonts we ask people to subscribe to our mailing list
 >> http://www.p22.com/members/contact.html
 >>
 >> You can then unsubscribe at any time.
 >>
 >>
 >> We will fix the text on the order page
 >>
 >> Regards
 >> Richard
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> On 2/2/09 1:15 PM, "christian at pfaab.net" <christian at pfaab.net> wrote:
 >>
 >>> Name:                    Christian Pfaab
 >>> Email:                    christian at pfaab.net
 >>> Comments:                    Hello there,
 >>>
 >>> I am writing because of one of your fonts. It has been freely 
downloadable
 >>> in
 >>> the past and has been used by freeculture.org
 >>> I wanted to use it for some freeculture related promotonial stuff.
 >>> I checked your website and there it says:
 >>> "
 >>> This font is primarily based on a typewrite used to create a 
typographic
 >>> conference document in Mainz, Germany in 1966. The Typewriter font is
 >>> offered
 >>> for free, and with no pretensions. It is not overly distressed, not 
overly
 >>> clean. It is a typewriter font. It is a thank you for visiting IHOF."
 >>> www.p22.com/ihof/typewriter.html
 >>>
 >>> So for my understanding it is free to use, yet there is a pay 
button on the
 >>> side of the font.
 >>>
 >>> Therefore I wanted to ask whether the font is free to use and 
whether we
 >>> could
 >>> get a high quality file.
 >>>
 >>> Best regards,
 >>> Christian Pfaab
 >>
 >

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