Font Licensing

July 5, 2010 at 10:17 am | Posted in Desktop Publishing, Fonts, My perspective | Leave a comment
Tags: buy a font, Font Licensing, font purchased, legal right

When you buy a font, you may install the font on all your workstations. You do not have to buy a licensee per computer, like other graphics software.

When you buy a font, you buy the right to use that font to create a printed product. This means that it is perfectly legal to supply a font to anyone involved in the process of designing with, printing, or reproducing the font, like freelance designers, service bureaus, or print shops.

It is also legal to hold client fonts, but don’t use them for any other work but the client’s. This is the difference between copying and pirating. It’s pirating if you make money by using a font that doesn’t belong to you.

It is legal to change or edit fonts using specialized programs. Legally, typefaces cannot be copyrighted; only the coded information used in creating the font files can be. So, if you make a couple of microscopic changes in a typeface , you have a font you can use freely, or even sell.

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