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Using Google Fonts for print work
It's completely fine to use them. Google Fonts are all open source, so you can use them for whatever you like.
However, they are mostly screen fonts. In other words, they're mostly designed to look ...
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May I use Google Fonts for creating a logo with commercial purposes?
Yes you can.
From About Google Fonts (emphasis mine):
All of the fonts are Open Source. This means that you are free to share your favorites with friends and colleagues. You can even customize ...
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Using a clients font to print their files
Each and every foundry has an End User license Agreement (EULA) for their fonts. They all vary to some degree. Some EULAs may forbid the client from ever sending you files to begin. Some EULAs state (...
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May I use Google Fonts for creating a logo with commercial purposes?
While all fonts on Google Fonts are open source, the actual restrictions on their use depend on the specific open source license they're released under, which varies between fonts — there is no ...
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Are Adobe Typekit fonts "free" to use?
The short answer is yes (if you're using Typekit legitimately as part of your subscription to Adobe CC). Here are a couple of useful FAQs directly from the Typekit site:
Can I use synced fonts for ...
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Can I use the font "Product Sans" for a commercial poster?
Google does not permit any kind of use of Product Sans for any third parties.
Here is the license of the font:
Google offers many fonts under open source licenses. This is not one of them. Please ...
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Reserved Font Names for SIL/OFL & Registering/Trademarking Commercial Fonts
I will preface this by saying that I am not a lawyer. I am pretty familiar with font legal/business issues from my decade-plus at Adobe working with their lead font lawyer, and 20 years in the type ...
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Can I use the font "Product Sans" for a commercial poster?
Yes.
"Commercial Use" means you are granted a license to use the item in products you sell.
(Note this is based solely upon that one line of text. There does not appear to be any further details on ...
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Can I use the font "Product Sans" for a commercial poster?
https://fonts.google.com/license/productsans
As you can see here is not allowed to use for any kind of purpose.
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Downloading a commercial font from a free source. Would that make an issue?
If the font is being redistributed illegally, you're still liable for using it without a valid licence. The probability of getting caught depends on how you use it, but it is still illegal.
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Arial for commercial use
Normally you can use any font purchased legally on any final product. In this case a Tshirt... or a magazine, or a book.
What you can not do with a font is re-sell it, this is, sell the TTF or OTF ...
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What are the differences between OFL and Apache License for fonts?
Apache 2.0 vs SIL Open Font License 1.1
To begin with, the Apache license was created with computer software in mind, as a free/open license that requires a software's source code to be freely ...
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How do we stop others using our licensed web-fonts?
Assuming you are talking about Folio—the font isn't free. A lot of "free" font sites are dubious and best avoided or at least used with caution. If you can search for the font and find it for sale, ...
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Is Adobe the only company that can license usage of Myriad Pro?
Adobe recently shut down their type store and send most of their licensing queries for Myriad Pro to us at fontspring.com. That said, Adobe only allows us at this time to sell desktop licenses, ...
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Is there alternate open source font for Chevin Light and Chevin Bold?
Not an exact match but a nice free alternative is Dosis via Google fonts. It's available in seven weights and, in my opinion, pairs nicely with a wide variety of typefaces.
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Tahoma Font and Linux
I assume it would be illegal to bundle it with my app?
Without a proper license, yes.
what should I do?
Two options.
Buy the font with a license that allows the use you need. You can purchase it ...
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Do I need a license to embed Helvetica or Coolvetica into an app?
You need a license from Linotype (for either Helvetica or Coolvetica)
Yes there is a specific "App" license, see:
https://www.linotype.com/1308886/helvetica-family.html
I can't say what the ...
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Can I use the font "Product Sans" for a commercial poster?
Don't take the risk. Use a different font that looks similar, but which is 100% legal.
Glacial Indifference - is an Open SIL font, and can be used for anything you want
From the OFL-FAQ
Question: ...
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How do I determine if a font is going to be commercially used?
"Commercial use" means using the font as part of a design for anything which you are selling or otherwise profiting from, as in advertising or client work.
"Use" means use, it is not the same as "...
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Can I use a font I downloaded for free, commercially?
1: Slate Pro is not a free font and your client should be in possession of a commercial license if it is being used in their logo. If not, they would have to obtain a license for them to use it ...
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Is Adobe the only company that can license usage of Myriad Pro?
Adobe owns Myriad...it's a typeface they commissioned for their own foundry. Adobe also owns Typekit. They want you to use typekit to license Myriad for the web.
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Reserved Font Names for SIL/OFL & Registering/Trademarking Commercial Fonts
This is only a partial answer. The rest of the question is addressed very well by Thomas Phinney’s answer
Otherwise, if I'm not careful, it sounds like anyone could just copyright my work as their ...
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Can I use the font "Product Sans" for a commercial poster?
While I am not a lawyer and the legal aspect is more appropriate for law.SE than here, generally at least in the United States, copyright on a font only covers the "computer software" aspect of a font ...
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Is this idea about font licensing true?
It's not quite right.
You must always abide by the font licence, sometimes called the EULA (End User Licence Agreement). These are the conditions you agree to when you use the font software. ...
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Which font is this? And can it be used commercially for free?
It is Goldenbook Black by Mark Simonson, with some modification in the "H" –
most probably H is modified with J.
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Can I use the Fonts in inkscape?
Fonts are typically not part of any one application, but rather installed on the operating system. In other words, they aren't "Inkscape fonts". They are fonts Inkscape as detected are ...
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Fonts question [need help]
Basicaly if you are not reselling or distributing the fonts themselves, you are fine.
Fonts are treated as software. So the copyrighted thing is the font file. Not the font itself. You can't be sued ...
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Usage of paid fonts
From what I understand by reading their license, you should add security to your PDF so they cannot be edited. The funny thing is: Usually, if someone edits your text in your PDF and doesn't have THAT ...
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Is it legal to use a commercial font on a T-Shirt to re-sell?
Avenir Next is a commercial font. That means you have to purchase it to be able to use. Well, the price is kinda high for this font.
You may find a similar-looking but cheaper fonts. Here are some of ...
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How do I know if my downloaded font is legal
It's very rare any font is "free" even more so some of the "free" ones aren't open source meaning you aren't free to use it as you please.
Some are free to download and print with via 1 computer; ...
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