I had actually heard just the opposite about them, that they would file a lawsuit against you if you were selling a product using their fonts - this warning came from a digital scrapbook store owner, and made perfect sense to me.

PC Crafter allows you to use their fonts on products for sale, as they do with their Creatables, however, they disallow you to use their work on digitally downloadable products, the product has to be COMPLETE and PRINTED, not a digital file, because they limit the number of uses per image in their collections.

Commercially licensed fonts are usually around $20 and can be purchased from places like "My Fonts" dot com - Ronna Penner's fonts are there, the ones that are on the Alphadoodles CD as well as her others before Alphadoodles came out. If you want to use her fonts on digital scrapbook products you are selling, you have to buy the commercially licensed versions. Bummer that I bought my collection before the other fonts were released, but oh well, I have most of her fonts with a commercial license.

Fonthead Designs sells commercially licensed fonts, in packages of 8 to 20 for $35 - he states that he would rather you not contact him to ask if you can use his fonts on resale items, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE BUYING A COMMERCIAL LICENSE FOR - however, if his font is ALL that your design is, you must contact him. For example, if you are selling t-shirts with only the letter F on it, and it's one of his Fs, then you would need to contact him. I think this is more applicable to his dingbats...can't imagine making anything that was just one letter and calling it a design.

There is some grey area concerning commercial fonts and "alphabets," since you are in essense selling each letter...but it it's embedded in another design, it's part of the design, not THE design.

Words and phrases leave less grey area because they are already put together, which is what type designers are selling fonts for anyhow, completed type works.

When in doubt, it's best to contact the font designer. They're real people - I have contacted Ronna before and she got right back to me and was very clear with her explanation of commercial vs. the non commercial versions of her fonts!

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