So, if you have the right to use the original font for free, then you can use the edited version as well.Īlthough you can edit any free font without asking anyone’s permission I would highly recommend to contact the authors and ask them to provide you with source files which may make the process of working with the typeface much easier. If for example designer Jenny have edited Roboto, she can’t name that typeface “Jenny Sans”, she can name it “Roboto Jenny” instead.Īdding new glyphs doesn’t mean becoming a coauthor, so even if you add thousands of new glyphs you can’t sell the font to anyone. If you have edited a free font or added some new symbols to it you can’t give that font a completely new name or sell it to anyone. The only limitations are related to editing the typeface. Nearly everything: use the fonts for websites, branding identities, presentations, apps etc. Adobe’s font department is definitely full of professionals and is able to compete with many well known type foundries. Even some well-known type designers like Steve Matteson and Łukasz Dziedzic, foundries such as ParaType or even Carrois Apostrophe have shared one of their fonts for free.Īnyway, I still consider Adobe Fonts to be the best place for getting free and high quality typefaces. The number of free fonts has rised significantly with Google Fonts, as now lots of type designers or foundries are interested in creating free fonts meeting all the requirements to appear there. Fonts with free licenseīefore Google Fonts was released in 2010, very few type designers and foundries were creating typefaces with free font license i.e fonts for free. In this article, I will do my best to describe all the types of font licenses in a simplest way possible.

They’ve probably some understanding of licenses, but not many of them bother reading the full text of any license. That made me realize, many people don’t really know much about font licenses. I did it as a hobby, and wasn’t expecting any material reward from authors of typefaces or from anyone downloading and using the fonts in their projects.Īnyway, I was getting(and still do) a lot of messages like “Can we use your version of Roboto?” or “I’ve seen Montserrat Armenian it looks pretty cool, can we use it in a small project for free?”. A few years ago I created and added Armenian letters to several Google Fonts.

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