Boston-based typographic design firm Font Bureau, which counts Apple, Microsoft and the New York Times Co. as clients, is suing the Peacock Network because it didn’t secure the rights to use a handful of Font Bureau’s trademarked fonts. FB alleges that NBC, which has been using similar typeface for the fall promotion of shows like Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Jay Leno Show, didn’t pay for all the licensing required for the font usage.
According to Cityfile, “NBC only paid for a single license–which would only allow the company to install the typefaces on a single computer–and only paid to use a limited number of fonts. But NBC went ahead and copied the fonts to a bunch of other computers within the company.”
The report states that Font Bureau is suing for “no less than $2 million” because of “injury”, “deception” and other sordid things you’d normally associate with Leno, Fallon and SNL.
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