With EULA Font Modification restrictions, is the restriction limited to the actual working font file(s)? Do modification definitions ever include font outline data as well? How are modification violations policed by foundries? How are these situations resolved?
Designers outline and modify type for logotypes or other purposes all the time. Are foundries mainly concerned with high-profile uses in these cases?
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As a static visual – yes, and designers do this. The effort and pragmatic disadvantages reveal themselves at large-scale: to outline every glyph in a 100-page book, website, or app is going to make a huge file.
To modify just a few glyph outlines in layout software, and anchor them appropriately, would not be so difficult. To apply a transformation (scale, shear etc.), stylization or effect is incredibly painless. In our publishing, the latter happens with disappointing regularity to overcome the limitations of some typesetting technologies. The former also occurs, for icons mostly.
In terms of fair use, you can split hairs or smooth them over. Is the legal challenge worth the costs involved?
BTW:
http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1776/modification-briefs-best-practices/p1
http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1785/foundries-allowing-modification