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ok can someone break this down for me really simply?
I've just discovered my company doesn't have anything officially set up and they're happy for me to sort it out but i have no clue as to where to start.
at the moment they just have a billion crappy free fonts.
i wanna up the stakes and buy some classic beauties on the company dime!
thanks
- monospaced0
Here it is, broken down as simply as possible:
Buy some classic beauties on the company dime.Purchase enough for everyone if you're honest, or buy it once if you're a sheister.
- Peter0
I guess what you want to know is how the licensing works.
This is from what I know but I might just be talking out of my ass. I am much welcome to be corrected:Indeed, some "fancier" fonts are sold where the foundry want royalties depending on how and where the font is used. Those are not that many around, thank jeebus.
From what I figure others might ask for royalties when the font will be used by a third party, such as when you bake it into software, but by the time you're there I gather you'd already have a legal person involved already.
However most fonts and foundries have licenses similar to the software that you use. It helps seeing it as such. i.e. you buy it, you use it. So rest assure you're (most likely) covered unless the fontshop states otherwise on the merch page.
Like monospaced said, purchase enough for everyone at your company if you're honest, or buy it once if you're a sheister. If anyone asks tell them your work was made on the computer with that font.
Or if you want to pinch some more pennies: take an existing font and modify it slightly -> bing! -> you can now claim it as your own (and perhaps even start pushing it online).
- Peter0
^ short version: "see it as software"