Ethical procedures of type revival in type design

• Autor(a) principal: Lebedenco, Érico
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: de Campos, Gisela Belluzzo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: DATJournal
• Texto Completo: https://datjournal.anhembi.br/dat/article/view/116
• topic: Design de tipos; Tipografia; Resgate tipográfico; Ética; Type design; Typography; Ethics

This paper examines the practice of type revival as a significant example of appropriation in type design. The practice is analyzed by an ethical bias in the professional approach, with focus on methods of production, authorship, registration and distribution of digital fonts. The investigation of the main ethical conflicts are based on articles by Vanderlans (1996) and Downer (1996), identifying the limits of appropriation accepted in typography, alongside with the interpretations of authorship, legal registration and commercial law may have. The consultation of moral codes from professional associations provides guidelines regarding the social and professional responsibility of the designer, in accordance with the precepts of intellectual property applied to type design, observed from the legal point of view by Andrade Lima (2006) and Barroca (2008). At the end, it is defined a set of notes for the ethical behavior in the production of digital fonts of type revival.