I have made several wordart for my own scrap pages and since these are in Norwegians and wordarts in our language is hard to come by I was thinking of putting them up as freeebies or maybe even sell some at another time.

Then it comes to all the copyright laws etc. I have downloaded most of my fonts free and a lot of the fonts come without author or terms of use and how about if the font says for personal use ?. How do you handle this.

Is it OK to just make wordart and then in the TOUs making referral to the fonts - or do you have to get permisson from each designer of fonts ??

How about making like making chipboard alphas and such - what rules applies here ??

Many questions here - hope someone can help me ;D

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Generally if a font does not have an author in the preview or a TOU text file then it has probably been illegally distributed.

Even if a font is "free" it doesn't mean you can make alphas to sell or share. Quite often you still need to either pay for a commercial license or seek written permission to do so. There are a few font designers out there who allow their free fonts to be used unconditionally. If you do a Google search for "public domain fonts" you should find a few.

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Your safest bet is to use only fonts that are stated to be free for commercial use and/or free for redistribution.

When I realised I had a lot of different fonts and had no idea which I could use in my commercial kits, I did a "font cleaning". I Googled every font I liked to use, and hunted down the TOU that way. Some I re-downloaded because I had lost the original file with the TOU. Surprisingly many were not free for commercial usage, and what I did was simply delete that font from my hard-drive (because I can't trust my cardboard head ).

I remember seeing a post here with links to sites with free, commercial fonts. Maybe do a search?

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Ok I have a question, font dummy here!! Does the same apply to the fonts that come with a say a program like a business card or any such program that comes with installed fonts? Do we need to read the TOU on those fonts also? Seems like they would only distribute fonts with their programs that have no conditions of use applied to them?
I haven't looked yet because I do not know which fonts came with what programs!!!

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When fonts are installed when a program is installed they go into the Window/Fonts folder but there aren't any TOU text files with them. I think you'd have to read the documentation/help files that come with the program. Some programs may have exclusive rights to certains fonts and may not allow them to be used commercially.

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I am a dtm at another site and we have a list of sites that are all free for commercial use fonts. heres some sites that have them, Larabie Fonts, Divide by Zero fonts, I shot the Serif fonts, pizzadude.tk, and font monkey. I've found larabie to be the best. All their true type fonts are freeware, with all uses allowed, other versions, open type, etc are for sale as well.

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I did a LOT of research on fonts to use for products. As I did the research I listed links to websites that had fonts that were free to use. Those links and some other interesting links about fonts are on my website http://jenniahart.com/fonts.htm

I have all my "OK" fonts in a spearate folder in The Font Thing so I know what I can design with and what I can't.

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