I have bought a font with a really shitty license agreement and I have a couple of questions.
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Are they able to detect it if I use the font in a commercial product online by crawling my website and if yes, how could I prevent at least the automatic attempt?
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How can I best share the font with the community? (I am afraid of metadata in the font files, which may be tied to my payment account etc. )
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How can I remove the DSIG and other metadata from the ttf file while keeping it usable?
To my (and possibly your) surprise, I didn’t find any free downloads of the font online.
Thanks in advance and cheers-I mean ARR
Fonttools includes a tool to convert TTF to XML and back again. Makes it easy to inspect and remove unwanted metadata
Awesome, thank you! I’ll try that
What’s fun about that, is that fonts are copyrightable, but typefaces are not.
Whats the difference?
Basically style vs the instructions that make up the font. It’s lead to a lot of rip offs (see: Helvetica vs. Arial).
Is that in a particular land or what? Could you give a source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces?wprov=sfla1