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Originally Posted by ahi
Are ePub creators limited in their choice of fonts due to font vendors' forbidding of third-party distribution of their commercial fonts? And are there reliable software-based methods to check a given font's permission settings?
- Ahi
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Very limited. Most commercial fonts come licensed for a certain number of computers and/or printers, and forbid embedding in ebooks.
Font foundaries are excessively worried about people copying their fonts. I did ask Monotype about the cost for a distribution licence for fonts embedded in an ePub, and the cost was
£1500 for up to five fonts, in up to five books,
per year.
For chapter headings and other display type, I expect it's possible to find a free font that allows redistribution without too much difficulty. But finding the body text font that you want in a redistributable form is very hard.