I'm looking into using this font from myfonts.com on a website. When you purchase a font from them for use on the web, you are purchasing a one-time license for a certain number of page views per month.
This license is described in more detail here:
https://www.myfonts.com/licensing/webfont/
How would myfonts.com know if I am exceeding my license? If the font is self-hosted, how do they know how many page views I'm getting? Is this some sort of honor-system or am I missing something obvious?
Here's the answer from myfonts.com support:
Webfont licensing is explained here:
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/exljbris/museo/licensing.html
In the supplied webfont kit that's self hosted, there is CSS. The CSS
includes and #import rule. When its url is read by the browser, it
calls our server, and a pageview is counted.
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I need to use Helvitica font for a client, and I thought we need to purchase the font to be used on the website to have a valid license for commercial work, but I found in this article: https://websitesetup.org/web-safe-fonts-html-css/ that Helvetica is a web safe font and all devices have it already. So do we need to still purchase the Webfont to legally use it on a website?
The point of web safe fonts is that they are likely to be available on a significant number of client computers already.
Since you aren't distributing it, you don't need a license for it.
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.
Basic question, I know I can either Download or link to a font, for example google fonts. Is there a benefit between choosing to link or download the font?
I am creating a web application with a few short paragraphs in RoR, but it's just a general question.
The only benefit I can imagine, is having a guarantee that your font will always be available if you download it and store it in your project directory. Whereas, if you link to a font there is a (rather low) possibility that the link will break in the future or something along those lines.
I try to load fonts via CDN, but requirements for a font do not have that. We are using Montserrat Light in some areas and my preference per Google fonts doesn't allow for the 'light' version. Instead, I found it HERE, but no CDN capability. So how do you all deal with this for your users without having them having to download or whatever. Looking for suggestions?
Thanks much.
A CDN is just "someone else's site" that you use for efficiency reasons. If no CDN is available, the obvious choice to put the data for online retrieval is "the same place you've put the rest of your website": just like how you have .html and .css files sitting in directories that are accessible to the outside world, you add your font file(s) in similar fashion and then just load them by relative URL.
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).