#WEBFONT LICENSE LICENSE#

Fontspring does an especially good job laying out the various available licenses for each of the fonts it sells: Screenshot from

#WEBFONT LICENSE LICENSE#

There are a LOT of different license types even before you get into usage restrictions within each type of license. Types of Licenses: Web, Desktop, App, Oh My! You also have to be really careful about the output of those converters, as they’re not going to spit out fonts that are as well-optimized for web as an expert hand-crafting the same font would produce. While there are some tools out there that let you convert regular desktop font files to webfont files, you must make sure that by doing so you are not breaking the licensing terms. I won’t go too much into why it’s important to respect the license, but it is absolutely vital that you locate, read, and understand the licensing terms for any font (or other asset, such as photographs, illustrations, and icons), before you put them to use in any project, commercial or otherwise. Like most artists, typographers protect their work by providing it under certain license terms. It takes a ridiculous amount of time to create a high-quality font, not to mention a font family with various weights and styles. If you have legal questions about the license terms for any font, you should consult the foundry, the site selling it, and/or a lawyer. This post is about understanding how different font services work and what some of the options are when you’re licensing fonts. Font licensing can be really confusing, and web font licensing in particular, so let’s break down some of the key things to know so that you never find yourself confused about which fonts you can use where.

If you’ve shopped for fonts lately, you’ve probably experienced the increase in different types of licenses you’re faced with, not to mention the different systems and platforms providing them for use on the web.

Webfont license