Font/typeface licensing and IP is a nightmare. Typefaces cannot be copyrighted, but fonts can. As a practical matter, this means that representations of typef

Font/typeface licensing and IP is a nightmare. Typefaces cannot be copyrighted, but fonts can. As a practical matter, this means that representations of typefaces in rendered documents can be redistributed freely - but the font file can be copyrighted, which means that anything that loads the font file (e.g. your website) has to have a license to use the font. So - if this font was being used in just a few places, they could easily convert that text to images and be fully compliant (though obviously hacky). However, since they're loading it as a web font, now they have to pay. It gets weirder when you talk about productivity software - lots of companies believe that they "own" their fonts, and hence can use them in their documents with impunity. In reality, they likely have an unlimited organization usage license, which allows them to install the font files on every computer in the organization, but not to distribute them outside of their organization. Have a design agency that you hire to build slide decks for the sales team? They need to buy a license to use that font (or you buy it for them). This also creates a reason to distribute documents in rendered form - wonder why that marketing deck got emailed to you from a vendor as a PDF instead of the PPT? If it uses a licensed font, you probably don't have a license and consequently won't have the font file installed on your computer, which causes the document to fall back to an alternate font (with mixed results) This is often true even when the font was custom-designed for a particular company - if it's a custom version of an existing font, the foundry typically creates a one off license for that customer. This is also why Google Docs and Slides can't support custom fonts - in their model, the fonts are delivered over the browser, so there's no way to limit distribution of documents with those fonts to remain in compliance with the foundry licensing. (Disclosure: I'm a googler, I worked on google slides years ago, got a ton of requests for custom fonts, out of 30+ companies that asked for this, only two owned their fonts in such a way that they could actually be distributed without limits).