I have bought a font with a really shitty license agreement and I have a couple of questions.

  1. Are they able to detect it if I use the font in a commercial product online by crawling my website and if yes, how could I prevent at least the automatic attempt?

  2. How can I best share the font with the community? (I am afraid of metadata in the font files, which may be tied to my payment account etc. )

  3. How can I remove the DSIG and other metadata from the ttf file while keeping it usable?

To my (and possibly your) surprise, I didn’t find any free downloads of the font online.

Thanks in advance and cheers-I mean ARR

    • Deckweiss@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I did that and:

      1. The only file that is correct is only of the regular version, so there are a lot of variations missing - you wouldn’t be able to get the same files as by following the paid way. The upload is 8 years old and seems to be part of an opensource website.

      2. There is another upload from 4 years ago, where the files appear to be called by the same name, but the font is very different. Seems to be part of a website again, which shows a couple of fonts for comparison.

      Thats why I wanted to ask how to safely upload them.

      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Yeah why not. Works in a pinch. I don’t recall where I said it was the most efficient or effective method though.