Fonts

[William Overington]

Unlike PagePlus, Affinity Publisher does not have any fonts bundled with it.

A person who has previously had PagePlus may still have the fonts that were bundled with it.

I regularly use fonts that were bundled with PagePlus and DrawPlus.

I regularly use Goudita SF and its bold, and Aldine401 BT and its italic. 

I also have discs of some versions of Serif software from over a decade ago where there are fonts bundled that did not always get bundled with later versions. One such font from long ago is Sea Monster.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/seamonster.PDF

However, from where can a new user of Serif software, starting with the Affinity range, easily get fonts that have permission to embed in PDFs on the web and have provenance of being legal to use?

Could Serif have a look at this issue and perhaps bring out a product named Affinity Fonts please?

William

 

 

[walt.farrell]

3 minutes ago, William Overington said:

However, from where can a new user of Serif software, starting with the Affinity range, easily get fonts that have permission to embed in PDFs on the web and have provenance of being legal to use?

Perhaps the fonts already on the user's system will qualify?

Or the user could look at Google Fonts. Or search for "fonts" and check the license agreements that come with them.

There's also the Resources section of these forums, where Mithferion has provided a curated list of free for commercial use fonts.

In general, you've asked a good question, William.

But I would expect that commercial designers would know where to get fonts, or have them already. And non-commercial designers probably won't worry about provenance and embedding permission, and probably won't have any idea they need to worry about it. (Speaking as a non-commercial designer who does know I need to worry about those things )

[fde101]

Yes, there are a lot of them on Google Fonts, but be a bit careful as there are actually several licenses used for the fonts there, and a few of them have requirements that don't really even make sense in the context of a font, but which may be interpreted to require that a copy of the license be bundled with whatever document has the font embedded in it, or other such things.

[Alfred]

Many of the fonts from Font Squirrel are released under the SIL OFL, but there’s a ‘License’ tab on the page for each typeface where you can easily check the licensing terms. There are very many other sites offering free fonts, with varying degrees of clarity on the questions of embeddability and provenance.