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What typeface is that on the latest UPS identity?

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I’m not sure, but…FF Dax? ( rip off???)

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AKA Sari…

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they use a custom designed/rip off of FF Dax

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The UPS typeface is indeed a reverse engineered FF Dax with an FF Meta-style lowercase ‘g’. The fact that we denounce this case of intellectual property theft makes us liable for prosecution. What a botched-up world, innit? The thieves go free, and the ones who just talk about it get busted.

Bert, although they are by the same type designer — Hans Reichel — FF Sari’s counterpart is Barmeno, not FF Dax.

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“The thieves go free, and the ones who just talk about it get busted.”

The thieves make money from their stealing and can afford big lawyers. Those who cry fowl are just low-life type designers who can’t afford high-priced legal threads to weave a defense let alone a suit of armour.

ChrisL

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Any legal issue with this thread?

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Portions of this thread will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, … ;^P

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