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