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Microsoft is. They actually made them available for anyone to use everywhere because they wanted them to be standard on the web. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.or
by ars 3y ago
Microsoft is. They actually made them available for anyone to use everywhere because they wanted them to be standard on the web.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web
- adrian_b 3y agoMost of those fonts donated by Microsoft are only among the fonts owned by Microsoft, e.g. Georgia and Verdana. They have included only a few fonts licensed from Monotype, e.g. Arial. Besides the fonts donated by Microsoft, there are many other free fonts that have been donated by big companies like Google, Adobe, Intel, URW, Bitstream, JetBrains and others. There are also many free fonts donated by individual creators.
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- bemusedthrow75 3y agoThe fonts in that package were not donated, but licensed -- it had an EULA. But the versions of the font files in that package are rusting at this point; there's no compelling reason to use them anywhere, IMO.
- adrian_b 3y agoYou are right that perhaps the word "donate" is not the most appropriate, because for typefaces, like for programs, the author does not normally transfer ownership but only grants certain rights for using the typeface. By "donate" I have meant that the typeface owners have forsaken the revenues corresponding to the licensing fees that they have stopped demanding, allowing the free use of those typefaces. It can be said that they have donated the value of the work that was needed to create those typefaces. You are also right that now this Corefonts package is mostly of historical interest, because the included fonts are very old. Unlike these, the corresponding Windows fonts have been maintained, by fixing bugs and adding new Unicode characters.