First, fonts Category Description
Why fonts for commercial use also need to authorize it?
In fact, it plainly is the emergence of many new fonts, such as Founder, Siyuan such as font's designers have put a lot of human, financial, technical and other inputs for the company in terms of character, its for-profit created out of, and therefore after the font development charges are reasonable business practices.
Therefore, when commercial use fonts, be sure to pay attention to copyright issues fonts (such as our well-known "Microsoft elegant black," is not a free commercial fonts), or vulnerable to eating font design companies (such as Chinese, Founder) lawsuit . Here are some kinds of fonts:
First, the conventional standard font
Conventional standard font is our most commonly seen in Times New Roman, italics, bold, italics, and other traditional font, because of its long history, under current copyright law, it has far exceeded the term of protection of copyright, and therefore do not usually involve violations.
Second, open source fonts
As the name suggests, open-source fonts are open source and free to download the fonts used, it is usually directly with commercial use, without authorization. Such as higher Chinese font evaluate "the source blackbody" is a three-year Adobe and Google announced in July 2014 an open-source fonts are available in seven font weight (ExtraLight, Light, Normal, Regular , Medium, Bold and Heavy), full support for Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean, unlimited free use.
Third, commercial fonts
Commercial fonts already reached a high originality and copyright protection period in the font, because of its special nature for profit, so if you need to use for the relevant fonts, you need to buy the copyright to the font company. However, commercial use fonts that is not required to pay, because of their different purpose, divided into the following two situations:
- For non-commercial behavior : learning for personal use and public use will not infringe.
- For-profit business practices : for profit, throughout the entire site or printed material, the use of the right side of the font, this is a commercial use, it is necessary to pay to use.
So if you want to avoid infringement of the font, you should try to use the conventional standard fonts or open source font, such as "think of the black body."
Second, the open source font finishing
Third, the fonts are installed
Right downloaded fonts, select "Install" to install the font, and then open the "Settings" in the "Personalization" window "Fonts" menu item, you can see a list of all fonts, where you can also delete fonts . You can then use the window member Qt fonts, but uninstall the font, the font default window member is reduced to "Arial", which fonts can not be used commercially.
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