Re: Protecting WebFonts

Jonathan Hoefler

>>I don't know any company that uses completely different fonts
>>for their internal communication and their external
>>communication. But maybe there are such companies?
>>
>
>
>Almost every company does this. There's an invisible line beneath which 
>the corporate style book is irrelevant; internal communication, from 
>correspondence to the company newsletter, is largely driven by what's 
>available. Awful lot of Arial being used instead of McGraw Hill Roman, 
>Raytheon Sans, and so on.
>
>Whether this affects the discussion, I don't know;

It does, but in a negligible way. The original poster argued that
companies would like to use certain custom-designed fonts
inhouse only, which would be ensured by firewalls. I wanted to say
that a company would use the same custom-designed fonts inhouse
and for outside communication. Now you say that in most cases,
there is a difference, but the custom-designed fonts are used
for outside communication, and the generic ones inhouse.
This rather clearly makes firewalls useless for the protection of
custom-designed fonts.

Regrads,	Martin.

Received on Friday, 23 August 1996 11:02:43 UTC