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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mass_driver@typo.social ("Rutherford Craze") wrote:

Maybe you’ve heard: every font is free! Since fonts aren’t subject to copyright, you can legally ‘pirate’ them if you use a specific loophole!

...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance.

A thread 🧵

Alphabet and numbers in a monospaced typeface (MD System Mono, to be exact), arranged in a grid. In the bottom row, ‘$0’ (zero dollars) is highlighted in bright red.