Comments on: Dieter Steffmann

by: Cory Maylett

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:31:55 +0000

I don’t know Dieter, but I do know that Faktos isn’t his font design, and I know it isn’t a free font. I know this because I designed Faktos several years ago as a shareware Macintosh Type 1 font. I’m happy that people like it enough to use it, but it’s more than a little annoying not to get paid for your work. It’s even more annoying to have it ripped off by someone who takes credit for it and then proceeds to give it away for free — illegally, I might add.

by: forrest

Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:19:57 +0000

Steffmann’s done all of us a huge service by digitizing so many different blackletter typefaces. I mostly just use his faces to generate specimens for my own blackletter projects, but he’s put in a lot of work and I totally don’t consider that stuff to be novelty work at all. He’s the only source for digital versions of several of Rudolf Koch’s typefaces!

by: Brian Donnelly

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 23:20:55 +0000

Cool. I am a friend. I dig. Faktos is cool - good for headline work… I missed that one on my first look at the archive!

by: Justin Callaghan

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:59:03 +0000

Most of Dieter’s fonts seem to come from old analog sources, so some of his collection has likely been digitized by others, under different names. Not so much “ripping off” as being born of common ancestors.