I am trying to find out if anyone may be able to help with this.
I am training an ocr to recognise a certain font, the font I want it to recognise is a commercial font that needs a licence to embed it in an app.
My question is do I need a licence to train the ocr to recognise it? I won't be displaying the font or embedding the font anywhere else only training the font to be recognised.
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Let's say you buy webfont on MyFont for use on your website. For example URW Geometric Webfont (https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/geometric/licensing.html).
Naturally you want to display it consistent on all browsers and devices. Webfonts tipicaly look great on MacOS (in all sizes), however there is a different story with Windows. Some characters (like “e”, “d”, “b”) seem to be larger than other characters. See hinting difference - before and after autohinting
I found solution for this issue called autohinting. The process goes like this:
You take .ttf file and apply autohinting to it - replace the existing hinting with the autohinting information. I used tool “ttfautohint”: https://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/
Next step is to generate other font formats from auto-hinted .ttf file. I used tool https://transfonter.org/
Is this process in accordance to licensing agreement?
It states following:
“You agree not to adapt, modify, alter, translate, convert, or
otherwise change the Licensed Web Fonts, or to create Derivative Works
from the Licensed Web Fonts or any portion thereof."
Source: https://www.myfonts.com/viewlicense.php?lid=1630
I didn’t change font in any way, I just applied to it autohinting information hence better webfont display on Windows.
I want to use the font 'Semplicita Pro' from the site https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/ for my own website project but I can't seem to find the font file on the website. Even if I should be able to get my hands on the file, would it be legal to use the font?
No, this is premium font which could be bought there:
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/canadatype/semplicita-pro/
This is kind of expensive. Maybe you could use one of the alternatives to this font?
https://www.typewolf.com/google-fonts
I need to include Gurmukhi.ttf font which was provided to me. I tried to find answer to my question but found something like this #font-face : converting and displaying a font (CityBlueprint) but no solution.
At first I tred to generate the font on this site
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
but got the following error "The file gurmukhi.ttf is blacklisted by the Generator. Webfonts from other distributors cannot be regenerated."
Then I used
http://www.font2web.com/
It generated the required data package and I included fonts, how it was shown in demo.html. But nothing happened. By default the browser uses its own fonts, and Gurmukhi are ignored. Interesting thing is that font in demo.html is also ignored by browsers.
Then I was provided another font type Optima.ttc. I have converted it to ttf format.
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
"Linotype has requested that their font Optima Regular be blacklisted by the Generator. You will not be able to convert this font."
http://www.font2web.com/
Here I only got 2 files and in info.html there was the following:
Sorry, the vendor of Optima nova Regular doesn't allow us to convert this font
But click here to use the Optima nova Regular web font for free
Tip: Click on the purple Sign Up for Free! button and then click on the FREE PLAN link
As I understand both of these files are not free?
This are commercial fonts and you need to purchase atleast the web license in order to use them legally (altough you could always make the .ttf conversion yourself locally without using web generators and avoid the blacklisted check, but this is still not a legal solution and the font is still subject to copyrights).
If you don't have the budget to spend on font license, you could always use a free alternative to Optima Nova - there are similar typefaces available for free - try to search for free alternatives that could suit your design (mind that the alternative font may not be of the same quality and may not support as many glyphs).
Does anyone know if there is anything around that can take an uploaded font file and automatically convert it for use as a web font?
I know there are legal issues around this, but places like Font Squirrel seem to manage, I have a private network of users and I'd really like to provide them with the opportunity to upload the fonts they use for their brand and the advice they need to use those fonts legally on line.
Online services like Font Squirrel are not really an option because my users are non-tech users and won't understand that service- they just can't understand why they cant use the fonts they want, when they can use them in Word documents, pdf's and images etc. They just want to use them basically. What I can do is automate the upload and creation and payment where necessary, and from the users point of view they can just upload the font they want to use, get billed for it and start using it.
So yeah does anyone know of anything PHP that would help me with that?
Thanks in advance
You seem to be looking for this. That’s a simple on-the-fly OTF to WOFF converter which does not require registration.
quick question, I'm currently trying to style a font to resemble the letters pictured below. Before I proceed any further I just wanted to be sure there wasn't already a standard, web-safe, font that resembles these letters. I'm not familiar with font design terminology, so I'm not sure what the technical description of the letters below would be. Thanks much.
I don't think there is a standard pre-installed web font (Like Arial, Times ....) out there that is this bold. Under some circumstances, you can force super-bold text using the font-weight property but cross-browser support is very shaky, and the font needs to support the boldness.
Google Web fonts has the Coda font which seems to come pretty close. Maybe that is an option?
Your other option is to use #font-face technology (which Google Fonts also uses) to provide your chosen font to your users. Google it - there's a wealth of material.
The only snag is that you must have a licence that allows you to put the font on the web (but fortunately lots of fonts can be licenced that way now).
Fontsquirrel.com is a good starting point.