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Since the shapes afaik can't be copyrighted: Your selfdrawn font has totally the right to look the same.

They probably won't however, since you might be able to copy the shape, but for being displayed on screen you need a process called "hinting". That is the term for making pixels out of the shapes. Professional fonts are hinted by hand, making it look neat even in small sizes. There is auto-hinting, but it only gets you so far.



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