For one of my applications there was a need to use paid fonts, for which it would seem simple enough to purchase it, but as it turned out, everything is not so simple. Under the cut - the result of a small study on the topic.
The first thing you need to figure out is the license.
Most font services offer the following types of fonts:
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- Standard End User - for use by a single user, embedding into anything other than non-commercial electronic documents and static images is prohibited.
- Web - use on the web site through the tools of the service that provides the font.
* Embedding here - any embedding of the font file in the application, which is exactly what is required in our case.Under the terms of the standard license, it turns out that by purchasing a font, you cannot use it in your application except as rasterized graphics.
Ok, what other options are there?
Of the services I have found, only fontshop.com provides a license for use in mobile applications, but the list of fonts there is very small; the rest I propose to contact them for a discussion of the
custom license arrangement , which, as we know, does not lead to anything good.
I myself did not write them, but I managed to find out from the experience of other people:
- Type-together.com want € 900 / year for the font.
- MyFonts.com - 25x / year for a font, or 75x for an unlimited right to use it, that is, at a price of $ 30, this is $ 750 and $ 2,250, respectively.
In my case it was a little expensive, so I had to give up the original idea and use simple images instead of embedding the font.
PS This is my first post, I hope this information will be useful to someone and will save time and effort.
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