The Ruby Raspberry of Infamy goes to Font Baby
Below are the transcripts of our e-mail conversation. My responses are pale pink, his are alien green. Beware, his letters contains language that might offend some viewers. I have left it in to show what a Wiener he is, not that his typos and spelling errors aren't enough of a clue already. E-mail him if you wish.
4/17/97
From: (namewithheld)
hi, my names dave. listen, I NEED that chinese font its so damn cool. if there's a site where I can download it from can you tell me because I searched through a couple and couldn't find anything.
thanx
(Namewithheld)
I can't remember which one it is, but I know I got my Chinese-looking fonts from buying Freehand and Adobe Illustrator. Try checking out URW Type Foundry or ImageClub (sorry...I don't have a URL)
They're not free, though.
-Ann
thanks I'l check it out. would you send it to me? I mean if I can't get it. I'd really appreciate it.
thanks
(Namewithheld)
I'm not a font distributor/retailer except for my own creations at http://ann-s-thesia.com/fonts.html
-Ann
I know, I;ve gone to your site and I like it. I even used one of your blank banners.
thank you its very cool. I'm just aking if you can e-mail me a copy of the cinese font because I called adobe to try to get the font and it not even locatable. I'm not trying to be rude or anything, so if it comes across that way I"m sorry.
(Namewithheld)
I don't offer blank banners at my commercial site. I offer them at my personal site.
Go back to http://www.oocities.org/~ann-s-thesia/fonts.html (do not go here, web visitor,...it no longer exists, thanks to wieners like (Namewithheld)) and read the last paragraph on the page. If you need a more detailed explanation of why I, as an artist looking out for other creative individuals, cannot provide you with the font, I will gladly explain it more in detail. Royalties has a lot to do with it...if I give you the font for free, whoever made the font gets no royalties for their hard work. Not only that, I wouldn't even pirate a font for my best friend, let alone for someone I don't know.
Artists really get screwed in society. I've been screwed over by the system. I'll be damned if I screw over another artist or typographer.
Maybe you're young and you don't understand these things yet. But believe me, artists work hard for what they do, and don't reap the rewards for most of it. Pirating fonts is part of the problem. Those artists (font creators) see nothing for their efforts if their fonts are passed freely about.
It is illegal, but that's nothing compared with the ethical immorality of it.
Just do a font search on the net. I'm sure you'll come up with something.
-Ann
I understand the ethical principles that you'd (we'd) violate by pirating that file and I don't really appreciate you saying how "maybe you're young and don't understand yet". maybe adults think kids should respect them because of filial piety or whatever, but when someone says something like what you said it really piisses me off because all adults have this bullshit assumption that "kids are dumb and we are the best" which I could proabably even prove wrong most of the time.
I've been trying to do a font search but my internet is relly messed up and is freezing in a way sometimes, working REALLY slow, and causing other problems on the computer.
I was wondering about the artists who get ripped off: the companies that distribute their work pay them, not the people who buy the fon't from the companies, right?
later
(Namewithheld)
End of communique with this Bozo Baby
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