Please read the license though on any font you plan to use just to make sure. Can these fonts be embedded in web pages, PDFs, eBooks, or Applications?Įach font has an row of symbols indicating what typical uses we think it allows for free. If downloading a font from the internet and using it for your business still makes you nervous, we’ll gladly sell you a font license at our sister site, Fontspring. If there’s a font we have available that doesn’t have a free commercial license, we want to hear about it. To the best of our knowledge the fonts on our site can be used commercially free of charge. We’re not lawyers, nor do we play them on TV. Can you give me some kind of guarantee or assurance that it’s free? Please read the license for more information on what you’re allowed to do with the fonts. Are you designing a logo with the font? That’s fine. As far as we know, all the fonts on the site have free desktop licenses, meaning they can be used in commercial graphics and images free of charge. We’ve done our best to verify that the fonts we add to our site have free for commercial use licenses. We understand that font licenses are difficult to understand and filled with legalese. Read FAQ #9 below about embedding for more info. We have tried our best to mark fonts for different common uses. Also, some licenses may allow more uses than others. And if you happen to find one that you think is not commercial, then please tell us. Please read the license on each font before you use them to be sure. Are all these fonts really free for commercial use?Īs far as we know, yes. Font Squirrel? Is that really the best name you could come up with? Both to advertise and advocate your service which is why I marked it as spam.Frequently Asked Questions 1. Not to mention that you have only posted here twice. Therefore, in my opinion, on a forum like this which is related to web developers, your service is not what I would consider a “game changer” or useful in converting fonts for these people to switch to. Are you aware there are differences in desktop fonts and webfonts? Are you aware that Font Squirrel also manually optimizes webfonts much like Typekit? Does your service offer this? How hard is it to create an unlimited upload limit? Quite simple, actually. How hard is it to add a file type to a form that a competitor doesn’t offer? Not hard at all. Well, in your case, I feel like what you offer are simple implementations and offer no real benefit. This is why I choose to pay Webtype for true webfonts compared to distributors such as Google Web Fonts. Quality can be a big factor in paid services compared to its free competitors. I’m a big supporter of type related projects so yes, I have. Have you ever donated to free services like FontSquirrel? Other free open source projects? > People these days are too familiar with free things. > On the other hand, fontsquirrel is making money too just not as direct.īy placing advertisements on their site? Okay? That’s quite common but they also have other businesses that they profit from. It’s an advantage because your competitor, Font Squirrel, takes some steps to prevent this. > (of course that is protected, no one else knows which font(s) you uploaded).Īgain, why is that an advantage? What is the need/importance to protect that data? Just from that comment, I presume that is an advantage because if a user uploads pirated fonts or fonts with restricted licenses, no one will know. Why would you ever want to convert that many fonts? Why is that an advantage? > It does not limit file size, 10MB or more + OpenType supports PostScript/TrueType outlines and is compatible cross-platform. + dfont are Mac OS X/Unix only supported fonts and will end up going away.
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