I have bought a font with a really shitty license agreement and I have a couple of questions.
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How can I best share the font with the community? (I am afraid of metadata in the font files, which may be tied to my payment account etc. - I had to register and log in to download the ttf files)
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How can I remove the DSIG and other metadata from the ttf file while keeping it usable?
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Are they able to detect it if I use the font in a commercial product online by crawling my website and if yes, how could I prevent an automatic detection attempt?
To my (and possibly your) surprise, I didn't find any free downloads of the font online.
Their license is tied to a personal account, you have to log into once a year to keep the license. As far as I understand they theoretically could use the DSIG to let the ttf files "expire", at least when used in software that verifies the signature. But I may be wrong, please let me know.
Thanks in advance and cheers-I mean ARR
This is how u pirate a font:
Google “fontname GitHub”
The end.
I did that and:
The only file that is correct is only of the regular version, so there are a lot of variations missing - you wouldn't be able to get the same files as by following the paid way. The upload is 8 years old and seems to be part of an opensource website.
There is another upload from 4 years ago, where the files appear to be called by the same name, but it's not the same font at all. Seems to be part of a website again, which shows a couple of fonts for comparison. Maybe they've put it there as a placeholder.
Thats why I wanted to ask how to safely upload them.
Github is really a great piracy bro.
Yeah why not. Works in a pinch. I don’t recall where I said it was the most efficient or effective method though.