Chomsky

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這是 Chomsky，一種採用紐約時報刊頭風格的報紙刊頭字體。此字體是根據 SIL 開放字體許可證 1.1 版發佈的。

This is Chomsky, a newspaper masthead font in the style of the New York Times masthead. This font is released under the S.I.L. Open Font License, version 1.1.

此字體不是紐約時報刊頭的精確副本。相反，它也旨在適合運行文本，因此我使用了更大的詞幹大小。一些字符之間的區別如下所示；上面是紐約時報的標誌，下面是喬姆斯基……：

This font is not an exact copy of the New York Times masthead. Rather, it aims to be suitable for running text as well, so I used a larger stem size. The difference between some of the characters are shown below; the N.Y.T. logo is above, and Chomsky below... :

我很驚訝，據我所知，我是第一個承擔這個項目的人。許多其他著名品牌，例如CNN、世嘉和可口可樂，都有向他們致敬的字體；事實上，這些字體中的大多數是在 Unicode 之前的時代製作的，並且在元數據方面以已不存在但曾經很突出的 Macromedia Fontographer 的名字命名；CNN 複製貓字體本身已經有 20 年曆史了。

I was quite surprised, that to my knowledge, I am the first to have undertaken this project. Many other famous brands, for example that of CNN, Sega, and Coca Cola have fonts in homage to them; indeed, most of these fonts were made in the pre-Unicode era and are branded in terms of metadata with the name of the defunct, but once prominent, Macromedia Fontographer; the CNN copy cat font is itself going on twenty years old.

也許是在黑色字體上創建額外字母的困難會嚇跑字體作者。也許是缺乏這方面的法律知識。不管怎樣，我相信我是第一個。

Perhaps it was the difficulty of creating the extra letters in a blackletter face that scared away would be font authors. Perhaps it was lack of knowledge about the law in this area. Either way, I do believe that I am the first.

如果您想知道我使用這種字體是否合法，鑑於我是從掃描圖像創建的，我向您保證它是合法的。在美國和大多數其他國家/地區，字母的設計不具有版權，只有用於製作它的軟件才具有版權。（Eltra Corp 與 Ringer，1978 年；Adobe Systems, Inc. 訴 Southern Software, Inc.，1998 年）此字體不使用任何受版權保護的字體軟件，我從掃描的圖像中追蹤了每個字符，幷包含了許多我自己沒有找到的字符在源材料中（除 5 之外的所有數字、大部分標點符號、pilcrow ¶、Unicode 代碼點 U+00A1 之後的幾乎所有字符）。

In case you wonder whether or not it is legal for me to have cread this font, given I created it from scanned images, I assure you that it is. In the United States and most other countries, the design of a letter is not copyrightable, only the software used to produce it is. (Eltra Corp vs. Ringer, 1978; Adobe Systems, Inc. v. Southern Software, Inc., 1998) This font uses no copyrighted font software whatsoever, I traced every character from scanned images, and included many of my own characters not found in the source materials (all the numbers except 5, most of the punctuation, the pilcrow ¶, almost all of the characters after Unicode codepoint U+00A1).

雖然使用這種字體排版自己的文件或製作畢業證書等是 100% 合法的，但使用這種字體制作商標可能是一個灰色地帶，尤其是如果它包含“紐約時報”字樣. 當然，作為一個外行，我不能給你法律建議，所以如果你想在報紙的刊頭中使用這種字體，特別是如果它包含這些文字，請諮詢律師。

While it is 100% legal to use this font to typeset your own documents or make, for example, a graduation certificate, making a trademark with this font may be a grey area, especially if it contains the words ``New York Times''. Of course, as a lay person, I cannot give you legal advice, so if you wish to use this font in your newspaper's masthead, especially if it will contain those words, consult an attorney.

當我給這個字體起名字時，我做了我認為是徹底的研究，以確保這個名字是獨一無二的。不幸的是，事實並非如此。該字體與由 Jimmy Ofisia 設計的T.26 Digital Type Foundry 的 Chomsky同名。

When I gave this typeface its name, I did what I thought to be thorough research to make sure the name was unique. Unfortunately, it was not. This font shares a name with Chomsky, by T.26 Digital Type Foundry, designed by Jimmy Ofisia.

因為現有字體來自 2009 年並且是專有的，所以我保持該字體的名稱相同。我相信用戶不太可能嘗試安裝這兩種字體，因為另一種字體不是免費的，所以默認情況下安裝的用戶群要小得多。此外，在我的字體發佈多年後更改它的名稱會破壞太多的用戶文檔並導致下游極度混亂。

Because the existing font is from 2009 and proprietary, I am keeping this font's name the same. I believe that it is very unlikely users will try to install both as the other font is not free so by default has a much smaller installed user base. Furthermore, changing my font's name many years after its release will break too many user documents and cause extreme confusion downstream.

用戶應注意，可能無法同時安裝兩種字體。用戶應注意文檔可能會混淆這兩種字體。在極不可能的情況下，用戶希望在一個文檔中使用兩種字體，鼓勵他們使用允許他們通過文件名指定字體的軟件。

Users should be aware that it may not be possible to install both fonts at the same time. Users should be aware that documents may confuse the two fonts. In the extremely unlikely event a user wishes to use both fonts in a single document, they are encouraged to use software that allows them to specify fonts by filename.

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