Comments on: PSA Monday: Adventures in Reading starring the Amazing Spider-Man

By: grkbeckham13@aol.com

grkbeckham13@aol.com — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:44:20 +0000

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By: Andrew Burton

Andrew Burton — Wed, 03 May 2006 15:08:11 +0000

Shouldn’t capital letters in Interlac have a leading bar to the left? I think that’s all lowercase Interlac used for uppercase English.

By: Michael G

Michael G — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:17:06 +0000

I had forgotten about it when I made my comment this morning, but Kashif "Blue Panther" Husain - the guy who created the Interlac fonts, whos also happens to be a former letterhack - is online and his site not only has the hollow and solid fonts, it's also got a little history of its creation. His sites are here and here. In fact, all of this was a good excuse to gather up all my Interlac-related links into this post on my Legion blog.

By: Comics Worth Reading

Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:54:17 +0000

[...] ’s a really weird bit of trivia to end on: an example of the made-up Legion language Interlac used in a Spider-Man comic. No comments so far [...]

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:50:44 +0000

What amuses me is that this Latin-mapped quasi-Kryptonian’s taken as The Standard these days!

Now, Pre-Crisis Kryptonian? THERE is a real fictional alphabet.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:31:47 +0000

Chuck, check out this older post which refers to the Interlac, Kryptonian, and Microverse alphabets.

By: gorjus

gorjus — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:11:54 +0000

While one may not technically hold a copyright on fonts, that does not mean that they are not necessarily protected under intellecutal property laws. There’s several websites that address the particularly quirky legal ins-and-outs of the issue, especially due to the “fontsplosion” (my ridiculous, made up word) of the past ten years. In terms of Interlac, I’d argue (were I a person accusing of intellectual property theft) that it was nearly always a fan-based Easter egg that was used extensively (and without legal repercussion) in the fan press.

I totally recognized Interlac, and Michael, thanks for providing the file!

By: Chuck T.

Chuck T. — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:32:37 +0000

Ah, I thought it was from the Micronauts. I forget what the language there was. Microversese? No?
The worst part is, I know I’ve taken foreign language classes, yet this is what sticks…

By: Michael G

Michael G — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:04:12 +0000

Because they probably got it from the public domain fan-created font Interlac (I’ve got a copy available at http://lsh.0catch.com/lsh/lsh.htm) as opposed to DC’s version. The word “interlac” isn’t even trademarked as far as I know, and I don’t think you can copyright a font.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:34:21 +0000

And Keith Giffen, Paul Levitz, et al didn’t sue because…?