Font Squirrel
Font Squirrel
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- detritus0
If you are farting around illegally with unlicensed fonts on your website, I'd recommend getting a cheap font editor and making amends to the font itself - strip out unused glyphs, add some points in here and there to distinguish the forms (especially letters) from the originals and amend the display names.
That way there's no automatable way for Them to cotton on to your naughtiness.
Aside from anything, you can often reduce a font's weight by half or so, just from having removed glyphs you'd never use anyway.
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Obv. I'd not begin to recommend this for real and commercial projects, but it's handy for throwaway things and where a font has a grossly unreasonable subscription cost.
- technically speaking, the point modifications to your glyphs makes it a 'new font' which you're then free to do what you will..detritus
- ..although I'd not like to be first in line, telling that to one of Hoeflercunt's lawyers, if all I'd done was add a redundant point to each glyph.detritus
- Also - rename the actual font file. I'm always amazed when people don't bother to even do that.detritus