Thanks, I need it. I just hope myfonts pulls it. Not right in my book.

Reminds me of this:
http://typophile.com/node/93171
In the end they arrived at some mutually-satisfactory agreement. On the other hand -unlike with Veneer and Wisdom Script- Duce possibly adds nothing of value so is not worth cutting any slack for. I'm not counting the cheesy Photoshop-redundant distressing effect.

Charles, I assume Gloria is not closely based on any pre-existing design?

BTW:
- This is one great reason to be on MyFonts: if you're with them they're much more likely to honor your take-down requests. It also makes it much easier to get some/all of the money from sales of the offending font.
- Much of the work from Machalski/Borutta seems to suffer from the same sort of plagiarism. In fact the numerals in Duce look like they're swiped from Futura. Assuming there is that much plagiarism, MyFonts should definitely dump him/them, and try to figure out how to get any proceeds into the right hands.

Related:
http://typophile.com/node/56010

New idea: If MyFonts can't get any money back from a dishonorable foundry they should ideally confiscate the fonts and keep selling them, giving the money to the right people, or at least a good cause, like TypeSnitch. Legally however that's probably not workable (and you most probably can't put clauses like that in the contract) so realistically the offended parties will have to deal with the offenders directly.

hhp

Hi Charles,

we've already withdrawn the font from sale, it'll just take a few hours for our records to update.

For the sake of other readers with similar complaints, it's our policy that any font is taken off sale immediately while we resolve the dispute, so just get in touch with us – we'll always listen.

Cheers
Anthony

Yes I was contacted by myfonts and they are pulling it! He was also selling it at other font distributors and so far 2 out 3 have already pulled it. So I guess that concludes this rant. :)

BTW Duce comes from Italian and was the name given to Mussolini (the Fascists leader). An equivalent of Führer for Hitler… what a sad idea for a name of a font clearly looking like 20th—30thies…

Gloria is not a type revival, but an original typeface based on an old hand lettering style.
Borutta’s entire alphabet of letter forms is copied directly from Charles’, and is in no way an original interpretation of old hand lettering.

@oldnick:
If you “revive” a font, that doesn’t mean that you own it:

Yes, but Nick Shinn had already noted upthread:

I suspect the plagiarist’s mistake was to assume that Gloria is a typeface revival,

This wasn't a revival. Had the font "designer" used Mostra as his basis, the name for the face would have been more appropriate, since that face was definitely based on posters of the appropriate period and location: of course, doing more research might have made it possible to do something original.

No worries Nick :)

Thanks Maciej! Yeah that is cheesy.
Old Nick, By the way, thank you for your comment above (I am being sincere, not being a smart ass). I actually consider it quite a compliment because it means I did my job as a lettering artist to replicate a period typestyle.