Monday, March 3, 2008
Font swipe?
I saw this image today over at Zuda Comics, the DC Comics web comic website. I thought I recognized the font that was used in the title. I spent an hour or so yesterday looking through fonts over at dafont.com and this font looked familiar.
It’s a font called Bleeding Cowboy and its created by Last Soundtrack. The font is labeled on the dafont website as being free for personal use. On the Last Soundtrack website, it states that fonts are for personal use only.
For the commercial usage, a “donation” is required.
I’m not sure what the policy is on fonts. Its not like this is a generic Arial or Verdana font. This font used in the title is extremely stylized. It possesses a unique artistic style. It would seem to me that the font’s artist should at least be credited when it is used to create more art, especially when that art is used for a commercial project. Over at the Zuda Comics website, credit for the title page is given to Jill Allyn Stafford.
Maybe Jill Allyn Stafford and Last Soundtrack are one in the same.
Update: (8 March 2008) Jill Stafford did the art on the title pages for Bayou (the first piece being on page 4 of the story), but she did not choose the font, nor did she do the lettering/numbering.
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Good eye cowboy! We just added dafont to our favorites.