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Originally Posted by Hitch
klaus?
What vendor explicitly stipulates that you cannot subset a font, please?
Hitch
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Hitch,
before I posted my question I was looking at a lot of fonts (and their licensing terms) for a children's book I've almost completed. Because of the length and complexity of many terms (especially compared to the simplicity of fonts for kid's books) I stopped reading licenses whenever something jarred, deleting the foundry from the list of potentials.
I can't remember which foundry's terms I found the subsetting restriction in first (I only keep URLs and licenses for those not discarded), but searching the hacker news post I linked to last week for either
sub or setting you'll find a comment by "JustFinishedBSG":
"You'd be surprised by the number of foundries that explicitly forbid sub setting of the fonts (...), so you're not allowed to only use Latin on your website, gotta load the whole ... thing. The font has weird kerning and you want to fix it? Yeah, not sorry not allowed either."
Klaus