copyright
Can I create a font based on the Testarossa badge font?
<p>The testarossa badge is a beautiful work of art and its a shame that no one has made a font based on it. </p>

<p>I am going to guess, someone may have, but Ferarri shut them down - as they are known to do, as they agressively like to to protect their brand. </p>

<p>However, I imagine creating a font that is similar to it in style would not constitute copyright, otherwise Arial wouldn't exist.</p>

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<p>I noticed the Boohoo logo has a very similar font style to it, without the inline. </p>

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<p>My question is then, could I create a font based on the testarotta logo, so it looks similar?</p>

<p>This could be copyright infringement, depends on how you do it. The design of a typeface is not protected as a work of art under US copyright law (<a href="https://casetext.com/case/eltra-corp-v-ringer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Eltra v. Ringer</a>), but the digital files that typically constitute the realization of a font / typeface is protected  by copyright. You may carefully recreate the artistic design of a typeface, if you can, and this is not infringement. But if you obtain a font file and manipulate it, that would be copyright infringement.</p>

<p>However... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces" rel="nofollow noreferrer">in some countries</a>, typeface design is protected (e.g. Germany. That article doesn't say what the status of typeface design copyright is in Italy, and <a href="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/it/it211en.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this version of the Italian copyright law</a> doesn't seem to contain anything corresponding to typeface design protection, but I suggest hiring a lawyer that does Italian copyright law first. </p>
