Probably not copyrighted, because it’s a decorative design. Just like fashion doesn’t have copyrights. And the collection is the same as the individual characters.
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Vampire Squid Sans
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Don’t give Adobe any ideas.
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Now you’ve got me worried. Remember when Silk Cut and Cadbury’s copyrighted two frighteningly similar shades of purple? What if some damn plutocrat was to copyright…I dunno… the letter E? I’m going to have nightmares tonight.
There I was completely wasted, out of work and down
All inside it’s so frustrating but look at this font I’ve found!
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You can’t copyright the letter e or any letter. From www.copyright.gov: “However, the applicant does not have to disclaim uncopyrightable elements, such as letters of the alphabet or geometric shapes.”
My question was about a copyright on specific pictures of letters. i.e. the digital code used to create a specific picture. That would in no way stop others from using the letter, just the specific digital file. It’s seems that if an Andy Warhol type artistic treatment of some letter could be considered art, and thus copyrightable, a simple picture might too. Or not. Thus the question.
Arrangements of public works can also be copyrighted. That doesn’t protect the underlying pieces, just the “list” itself. i.e. you can copyright (with some caveats) your list of your top 10 favorite cat names without getting any copyrights to the cat names.
You also can’t copyright a color (but you might be able to copyright the name). You can in some situations get a trademark.
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This exact problem, the use of license terms to control speech, is exactly why typefaces (not fonts) are not protected in the US. A parody named font with the same letterforms but an open license would absolutely spring this trap.
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Typefaces aren’t copyright at all in the US.
If the dickheads at GS complained about something posted on the web wouldn’t it be simple enough to just change the font to something else?
I see that Cadbury lost its legal battle to trademark its colour, back in 2019. Sorry I missed that. Didn’t stop them trying, though, for twenty years or so.
And though it might not be possible to copyright a letter or a number, these grasping plutocrats eventually will fix on something that will make all our lives a misery.
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Doing my bit for the bored conspiracy theorists out there:
Goldman Sachs is playing the long game. They know they only control the license to the font itself, that they can’t can’t control the usage of the font.
Yet.
Ten years later and millions in GS casino cash spent on lawyers and lobbying change the law so that anything that contains a font is included in the copyright of that font. Any printout, website, image, sign…
And in the meantime, guess who has bought up all the font foundries…
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It’s actually possible to trademark a letter, tho…
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More like: Goldman Sacks.
Amiright?
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Uh, Sacs?
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