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

  1. 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. - I had to register and log in to download the ttf files)

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

  3. 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 an automatic detection attempt?

To my (and possibly your) surprise, I didn’t find any free downloads of the font online. Their license is tied to a personal account, you have to log into once a year to keep the license. As far as I understand they theoretically could use the DSIG to let the ttf files “expire”, at least when used in software that verifies the signature. But I may be wrong, please let me know.

Thanks in advance and cheers-I mean ARR

    • Deckweiss@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      11 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 it’s not the same font at all. Seems to be part of a website again, which shows a couple of fonts for comparison. Maybe they’ve put it there as a placeholder.

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

  • yokonzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    11 months ago

    Well, if you really want to keep it you could drag it into a vector graphic editing software and trace each letter, make your own font set

    • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Side question, does anyone have suggestions for a decent free vector editing software? I’ve been meaning to just search for one for a long time but I always forget about it.

      • tonyn@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I use inkscape for vector graphics editing. It’s free and open source, and runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows.