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

      • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.deEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Maybe is in the metadata as someone pointed out earlier, or it could be an otherwise unused ASCII char that looks different for each user who licensed it when printed out, sort of like a qr code as a single ASCII char.

        Or it they just check filename, file size and md5, all of which can be easily changed.