If I wanted to embed a static watermark in my fonts (mostly to determine the distribution source) what would be the best metadata table to use in the font file to store this information?
I'm not looking for other methods of watermarking, I'm mostly looking at the least used metadata tables that just aren't frequently used or used at all.
Or, is a better approach just to create a new metadata table entry just for this and if so, what number would that start at?
Thanks in advance,
Stuart
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Hmm, OK, checksums for GDEF, GPOS, GSUB are wr... what the heck is that?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/name#name-ids
But how the whole situation goes, i.e. you spot your font on a pirate site and would like to check where it is bought...or something else?
@Stuart Sandler What better place than the outlines themselves? :-) Virtually undetectable, too much trouble to remove.
True...
But they won't know which glyph you chose... For extra protection, you could encode the values in actual curves (although that slightly compromises the design) so there's zero visual indication of the watermark. So for example the plug-in could take a tangent point and slightly move the node back/forth and its handle forth/back (keeping the curve practically identical).