Re: Aqua icons from system fonts
Re: Aqua icons from system fonts
- Subject: Re: Aqua icons from system fonts
- From: glenn andreas <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:10:53 -0600
On Dec 10, 2004, at 12:55 AM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
Whilst looking for free toolbar icons for my program, I stumbled in
UnicodeChecker upon one of Apple's <private use> areas that has
hundreds of symbols that would (with some aquification or other
enhancements) be perfect for toolbars. A paper tray with an up arrow
and one with a down arrow would be an excellent choice, in my first
impression, for import and export features.
I've read through previous postings, but haven't found much about
using such symbols in our icons. Is there any reason not to, provided
that we can stylise them to appear a nice part of the interface?
Cheers,
Andrew Merenbach
P.S.: For those who wish to examine the symbols, I used UnicodeChecker
(www.earthlingsoft.net) and have been examining the range that
includes Decimal 61650 and 61651 (hex F0D2 and F0D3), for the trays.
The rest of the symbols appear fairly contiguous about that region.
If you look with the Character palette, you'll discover that those are
just glyphs found in the WebDings font (and not some super secret
hidden magic pictures). As such, it would be no different than taking
glyphs from any other font, enhancing them, and using them in a
toolbar. Now, is this a "derived work" or "fair use" (especially if
you just use one or two)? Looking at the font
(/Library/Fonts/Webdings) reveals:
"Copyright: Copyright (c) 1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights
reserved."
So if you really want to be safe, you'll need to determine (and
probably with a laywer) if using a modified version of the these glyphs
is a derived work or fair use, and if it is the former, you'll need to
contact Microsoft for permission.
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