The History of Typography

The Times owned this font and they had exclusive rights to it. But only for a year, which is interesting. Is this like, why was there such a clock put on it as opposed to what would normally be a longer period for copywriting or trademarking of something? Yeah. It's tough to know for sure. We can speculate on a couple of things. One, it may have been part of the agreement, the Times pitched. Two, he might have known he had lightning in a bottle. And the price that they would have to pay for exclusivity may have been pretty prohibitive. After those rights lapse publishers over in the United States, especially newspaper publishers, aren't champ