Maybe you’ve heard: every font is free! Since fonts aren’t subject to copyright, you can legally ‘pirate’ them if you use a specific loophole!

...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance.

🧵 A thread:

2 years later, I finally get to update my typeface Bantayog Sans! Dropping this Friday on futurefonts.xyz/jadmaza

FFF (Filipino Folk Foundry) is a book about sign painting in the Philippines, with profiles of practitioners and other resources. (2015, 2nd edition).

Edited by Lobregat Balaguer
Designed by Dante Carlos and Kristian Henson
Published by Hardworking, Goodlooking

#Philippines #Graffiti #Signpainting

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Hi! I'm Jad, a type designer from Iloilo, and I explore how fonts could look in the Philippines' context 🇵🇭

experiments instagram.com/jad.otf
projects behance.net/jadmaza
fonts jadmaza.com

#typedesign #typography