Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Typography

Version of M. Vox's diagram + what is the current VoxAtypl classification?

Hello. I have two questions
1) I have found a reproduction of Vox's diagram of his original 1962 classification, here (from here). The diagram is from the book Dossier Vox, 1975. You can see a clearer, typographical version from the book La Chose imprimée here or here (from here). I found an English version using each font in the diagram here.
Does anyone think that it would be a good idea to ask at c:Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop to make a version of Vox's original classification? By the way, I think his classification often gets confused with the one wich was later adopted as the Vox-ATypI classification.
2) does anyone have a list of the current font families and fonts of the Vox-ATypI classification? I cannot find it on the official website. Veverve (talk) 12:13, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Since I have no anwers, I ping @Odysseus1479:, @John Maynard Friedman:, @JamesMLane:, @J.T.W.A.Cornelisse: and @Blythwood: in an attempt to get some. Veverve (talk) 10:46, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Since the digital era has started, many new fonts were designed and will be designed... Even before the internet was active, many fonts were made, that might never been listed in this classification by name at all.

And than... lots of fonts have more than one name. This was in the old type founder age when type founders copied popular faces from competitor type foundries (for instance: Garamond & Garamont).

How would you imagine to keep track off all this? Any designer of a new font should be able to figure out what kind of fond he has made, and what the purpose of it.

How can anybody be complete in this ? J.T.W.A.Cornelisse (talk) 08:37, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

@J.T.W.A.Cornelisse: I understand it is difficult, but it is not the point. I am asking if there is a list of the currect Vox-ATypI classification somewhere. Currently there is e.g. the Classicals family with the Humanist font, the Calligraphics family with the Blackletter font, etc. on the WP article, and I would like to check if the article is up to date.

Also, what do you think of my first point concerning the diagram? Veverve (talk) 08:56, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

The Vox diagram is rather schematic, certainly the first diagrams... and that might stay in this way, What is the need to be very precise ? J.T.W.A.Cornelisse (talk) 11:44, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

@Veverve: if people think it would be useful, I’d be happy to create a version of the diagram. I am somewhat concerned that WP:OR might be required to select representative specimens, as implied by JTWAC above. Of course it could all be done in a generic font, just naming the examples as in the Guide pratique … linked above, but with some loss of illustrative value. At any rate the actual execution would be pretty easy, and I do have a fairly large collection of ‘classic’ fonts from major foundries to draw upon.—Odysseus1479 23:48, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

@Odysseus1479: It is not OR, because Vox's diagram is official; please note, Vox's diagram is not the Vox-Atypl classification, but Vox's classification. The Vox-Atypl adopted in 1962 contains the Blackletters family, and added the Gaelic family in 2010. I found a fan made diagram of the latest Vox-Atypl classification here. I did ask the question of whether reproducing those two diagrams would infringe copyright on WCommons, and it is likely that it does. Veverve (talk) 07:13, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

@Odysseus1479: I re-read your message: yes, choosing representatives would be OR, but I do not think it would be a problem. The biggest problem is that reproducing those diagrams would likely infringe copyright. Veverve (talk) 08:07, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

@Veverve: I disagree that it would necessarily do so. AIUI the classification system itself is an idea or concept, therefore not subject to copyright; as long as the “creative expression” in a representation thereof is not derived from an existing work, it shouldn’t be a problem. I see from the Commons VPC discussion that my take on this may be controversial, but I’d be prepared to defend it in a DR.—Odysseus1479 21:09, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

@Odysseus1479: From what I understand, the organisation into a circle the way it is done in those two images may be copyrighted, thus the content of those diagrams (in this case, the names of the fonts and font families) is what would be copyrighted. Feel free to have a more thourought discussion on WCommons about this if you want; if I am sure that reproducing those diagrams in SVG by doing either a 1:1 copy or an almost 1:1 copy is not plagiarism or derivative, then I will gladly ask for the making of those SVGs and supervise said making. Veverve (talk) 23:41, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

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