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Are you sure about Comic Sans? The only information I could find from Microsoft was on their font redistribution FAQ [1] and it says Until recently, most f
by omaranto 13y ago
Are you sure about Comic Sans? The only information I could find from Microsoft was on their font redistribution FAQ [1] and it says
Until recently, most fonts that include a Microsoft
copyright or trademark notice have only been available
as part of Microsoft products. Although some fonts
remain Microsoft-exclusive, a number of Microsoft fonts
are now available to end users, ISVs and OEMs under
license from Ascender Corporation. These include
'Verdana', 'Georgia', 'Comic Sans MS', 'Microsoft Sans
Serif', 'Nina', 'Tahoma', 'Wingdings', 'Webdings' and
'Trebuchet MS'.
Doesn't that mean that to use Comic Sans you have to negotiate with Ascender Corporation? I couldn't find anything on Ascender's website suggesting any font at all was free to use (I didn't read everything carefully though), and about the MS core web fonts specifically this page [2] makes it sounds like you need to buy a license from them to use them:
Monotype is proud to offer the Microsoft Web Core Fonts
for license to software developers and hardware
manufacturers who want to provide a consistent web
browsing experience in their products.
Please contact Monotype for more information about the
Microsoft Core Fonts for the Web.
[1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/RedistributionFAQ.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/typography/RedistributionFAQ.mspx
[2] http://www.ascendercorp.com/catalog/microsoft/web-core-fonts/ http://www.ascendercorp.com/catalog/microsoft/web-core-fonts...
- foobarbazqux 13y agoBasically Microsoft screwed up with the license for version 2, and it's legal to redistribute and use them, at least as an end user. They changed things for later versions. There's a good amount of coverage of the legal status on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web