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    Adam Kovic is a creative director and co-founder of Null+Void Creative. He spent a decade producing video content and brand campaigns for companies mostly owned or devoured by WarnerMedia.
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I recently committed a crime.

Not a real crime. Crime-light. The kind where if you describe it to a lawyer they start explaining fair use. Then you describe it to an artist and they start explaining morality. At the end, wishing you'd stolen some RAM from a Best Buy instead.

The object of my criminal enterprise was a $12 font. Not a rare font. Not a famous font. Not a font carved into the side of an ancient temple by a civilization that vanished beneath the sea.

The evidence in question is from Machine56, an Indonesian cyberpunk design studio. Their entire aesthetic is best described as the future depicted by early 2000s rave promoters.

I love their work.

Their helmets look like something I'd wear to a robot-themed cyberrave/furry orgy. Those robot heads cost around a grand, which puts them in the category of things I will look at and never touch. Like furries.

For years they sold a font, M56DB01, for $12. Then one day they stopped. It wasn't discontinued. It wasn't removed. It wasn't pulled for licensing reasons. Just marked SOLD OUT.

A digital file...sold out?

They ran out of zip files? I don't get it.

To be clear, this is their right. As an American (or Indonesian) you can sell your products however you want (I think). You can delete the original. You can put them in a vault and throw the key away in Tanah Lot. You decide whether your digital download is a seasonal vegetable or a can of dolphin tuna.

At one point, we as a self-aware species, thought NFTs would make digital items rare and somehow valuable. I personally thought it was a cool idea, in theory.

In practice it was some of the dumbest shit to come out of 2020.

Anything good (not pictured)

Anyway, back to this font dilemma.

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Adam Kovic Adam Kovic
Adam Kovic is a creative director and co-founder of Null+Void Creative. He spent a decade producing video content and brand campaigns for companies mostly owned or devoured by WarnerMedia.
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