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I remember Web Font Player before dynamic fonts became available. You could upload a copyrighted font. Say Microsoft or Apple's font. It will trace that font an

I remember Web Font Player before dynamic fonts became available. You could upload a copyrighted font. Say Microsoft or Apple's font. It will trace that font and generate your "Web Font" and then you could use it without any copyright issue as that's not the original font rather a machine learnt one. Guess fonts are still like this.

Hamuko 5y ago
In the US, fonts (a computer program) are copyrightable but typefaces (design of letters, numbers and other symbols) are not. So you can basically just redraw your own Helvetica with no copyright issues.