the enemy within

BlueJ
24.May.2005 6.07pm
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Greetings,

I've been, for various reasons a silent reader of this forum for a couple of years. Being a not native English speaker stopped me many times, plus I can't really see myself as a designer and for sure not as a type designer. Anyhow, if you'll pardon my brief self indulgence I'll get to the point.

In the past year a friend of mine has been growing a genuine interest for typefaces. Being an Apple enthusiast he built a web site about the new OS X feature, widgets. Unfortunately his enthusiasm brought him a bit too far and an Apple's Copyright Agent wrote him a really polite email asking to change the design of the web site because it used too many elements under Apple's trademark.

Finding himself in a weak position to defend his work, he agreed to change the look of his site and wrote back to Apple to confirm his intentions.

Apple's Copyright Agent answered pleased, but the email caused few serious reactions. Not for the content, extremely pleasant, but for the choice of style. I made a PDF file of it, obviously obscuring all personal informations, for your appreciation.

Hugs,
Jacopo

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Mark Simonson
24.May.2005 7.10pm
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That's ironic, and I doubt the irony was intentional. You would think they would use Chalkboard. Not that either seems particularly appropriate for legal correspondence.


hrant
24.May.2005 9.49pm
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This is too classic! :-)

hhp


vinceconnare
25.May.2005 9.16am
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Is today April fools day?


hrant
25.May.2005 9.22am
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When you use Comic Sans, every day is April Fools Day!

hhp


mike gastin
25.May.2005 5.39pm
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Would not the recipient's computer/email client choose the face and not the sender, in this case Apple's representative?

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Mike


gabrielhl
25.May.2005 6.13pm
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I actually see all this stuff set in something like Arial (I'm too lazy to look closely) although the Font Info in Acrobat mentions Comic Sans... and it was enough for me to understand the "irony".