Fontspring Desktop Font License

Desktop EULA 2.0

Summary

A desktop license is the most common license and covers most commercial font usage. You can create graphical designs (logos, signs, etc.) and products (mugs, t-shirts, hats, etc.) for yourself, or your client(s). Products may be sold for profit as long as the letters are not the main selling point of your product (like a house number or stamp set). This license is limited by “users,” usually the total number of people using the font. Embedding fonts is not allowed with this license with a few exceptions (such as a PDF reports). All licenses on our site are perpetual, which means you pay once and use it forever.
 
Note: Embedding a font means to include the font in a file to be used by the person receiving the file. For example, a font file embedded in a website’s code. Embedding rasterized images created by the font is not considered embedding the font. Embedding licenses for websites, apps, ebooks, and more are available from Fontspring.

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DESKTOP FONTS | END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT | V2.0 By downloading, installing and/or embedding font software (“Fonts”) offered for license by Creative Market Labs, Inc, Fontspring, and its distributors (“Licensor”), you (“Licensee”) agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions of this End User Licensing Agreement (“EULA”): 1. RIGHTS GRANTED Licensor grants to Licensee a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to install the Fonts, and create, reproduce, modify, display, and distribute artwork created with the Fonts in accordance with the terms and conditions of this EULA. 1.1 Installation, Storage, & Backup ⬇︎ Licensed Users The Licensee is permitted to distribute the Fonts along with this EULA to the specified number of licensed users (“Licensed User[s]”) as indicated on the applicable order receipt (“Receipt”). ⬇︎ Computer Installation Each Licensed User is permitted to install the Fonts on desktop, laptop, and handheld computers directly operated by such Licensed User. ⬇︎ Cloud Design Apps Each Licensed User is permitted to upload the Fonts to cloud-based design application accounts controlled by the Licensed User, and used only by the Licensed User[s] for the purpose of creating artwork with the Fonts. ⬇︎ Server Storage The Licensee is permitted to upload the Fonts to a server or a cloud-based storage service that is owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by Licensee, for the purpose of storage, asset management, and retrieval by Licensed Users only. ⬇︎ Backup The Licensee is permitted to make a reasonable number of backup copies of the Font for disaster recovery purposes only. 1.2 Rights ✔ Digital Documents and Artwork Licensed Users are permitted to use the Fonts in static, digital files, documents, and artwork (“Documents”) including Portable Document Format (“PDF”), subject to embedding restrictions in Section 1.3. ✔ Books and Physical Goods Licensed Users are permitted to use the Fonts in artwork for an unlimited number of physical goods such as books, collateral, clothing, signage, and promotional items. ✔ Logos Licensed Users are permitted to use the Fonts to create logos and logotypes. ✔ Broadcast Licensed Users are permitted to use the Fonts to create artwork for all forms of video, animation, television, cinema, and broadcast (“Broadcast”). These uses include titles, credits, overlays, slides, and interstitials. 1.3 Restrictions ✘ No Dingbat Products Licensed Users are prohibited from using non-letterforms (“Dingbat[s]”) from the Font, as the primary design element of the product. Examples include: a coffee cup featuring a Dingbat image, or a logo that uses a Dingbat as the logomark. ✘ No Typesetting Products Licensed Users are prohibited from using the Fonts to create typesetting-like products where individual letterforms from the Fonts can be composed by End Users to create words. Examples include: kits of individual letters using rubber stamps, stickers or stencils; or dry-rub lettering sheets. ✘ Limited Digital Document Embedding Licensed Users are prohibited from distributing or embedding the Fonts in Documents to unlicensed End Users in any format other than read-only PDF. The Fonts used in other Document formats distributed to unlicensed End Users must be (a) rasterized into a pixel-format image, or (b) converted into static vector outlines. Licensed Users are permitted to distribute or embed the Font in editable Documents (including PDF, Microsoft Word® & Microsoft Powerpoint®) only to other Licensed Users. ✘ No Other Systems/Product Embedding Licensed Users are prohibited from embedding the Fonts in: - Websites and digital ads using CSS @font-face - Desktop applications, mobile apps, and other software - Cloud-based apps allowing third-party, End User Font usage - Electronic devices - Digital games - Ebooks - Editable templates and editable PDFs 1.4 Third Parties The Licensee is permitted to temporarily provide the Fonts to a third-party designer or agent (“Agent”) who is working on behalf of the Licensee. Any Agent using the Fonts is treated as a Licensed User and counts toward the total number of Licensed Users. All Agents of the Licensee must: (a) agree in writing to Licensee that the Fonts will be used exclusively for Licensee’s work, in accordance with the terms of this EULA; and (b) destroy all copies of the Fonts upon completion and delivery of the work to Licensee. 2. FONT MODIFICATIONS Licensed Users are prohibited from modifying the Fonts, or creating derivative Fonts without prior written consent from Licensor or the Font’s copyright holder except where derivative Fonts are necessary for embedding or linking in accordance with this EULA. 3. COPYRIGHT The Fonts are protected by United States and international copyright and other laws and treaties. The copyright holder is the sole, exclusive owner of all intellectual property rights, including rights under copyright and trademark law. Licensee agrees not to use the Fonts in any manner that infringes the intellectual property rights of the copyright holder or violates the terms of this EULA. Licensee will be held legally responsible, and indemnifies Licensor, for any infringements on the copyright holder’s rights caused by failure to abide by the terms of this EULA. 4. TERMINATION This EULA is effective until terminated. If Licensee fails to comply with any term of this EULA, Licensor may terminate the EULA with 30 days notice. 5. REFUNDS AND DISCLAIMER At Licensee’s request, Licensor may, at its discretion, provide a refund for the Fonts if the following conditions have been met: - The Fonts have never been used in any published or released artwork by Licensee. - No more than 30 days have passed since the date of purchase, specified on the Receipt. - The Fonts have been completely removed or destroyed from all Licensee’s installations, servers, and backups. 6. WARRANTY The Fonts are provided “as is.” Licensor makes no warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Licensor shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages (including damages from loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, and the like) arising out of the use of or inability to use the product even if Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some U.S. states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to Licensee. 7. GOVERNING LAW This EULA is governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of California. 8. ENTIRE AGREEMENT This EULA, in conjunction with the Receipt that accompanies each Font licensed from Licensor, constitutes the entire agreement between Licensor and Licensee. 9. AGREEMENT MODIFICATION The Licensor and Licensee may modify or amend this EULA when agreed to in writing. 10. WAIVER The waiver of one breach or default hereunder shall not constitute the waiver of any subsequent breach or default. ©2022 Creative Market Labs, Inc.

Usages

Branding

You may brand your business with this font. If your business becomes very successful, you will not need to pay any additional fees. If you are a branding company, you may create brands for your clients as well. However, if your client would like to the font use on their computers, they must purchase their own license.

Greeting Cards

You may use the font to create greeting cards. They may be for you, your business, to be sold for profit, and/or to be intended for resale by your customers. However, you cannot use the font in a system that allows your customers to create and customize their own greeting cards. An additional license may be available for this use.

Logos

You can create logos for yourself or your clients.

Movie Captions

You may use the font to create captions for your movie creations, but you cannot embed the font in movie software you sell or in the movie itself... In other words, make sure that the recipient of your product cannot extract the font file. If you need to embed the font, an additional license may be available.

Movie Credits

You may use the font to create movie credits for your movie creations, but you cannot embed the font in movie software you sell or in the movie itself... In other words, make sure that the recipient of your product cannot extract the font file. If you need to embed the font, an additional license may be available.

Movie Titles

You may use the font to create titles for your movie creations, but you cannot embed the font in movie software you sell or in the movie itself... In other words, make sure that the recipient of your product cannot extract the font file. If you need to embed the font, an additional license may be available.

PDFs

You may create read-only, non-editable PDF files. Extended PDF embedding is available with an ebook license.

Pens

You may use the font to create pens. They may be used by you or your business, or sold for profit, and/or intended for resale by your customers. However, you cannot use the font in a system that allows your customers to create and customize their own pens. An additional license may be available for this use.

Signs

You may use the font to create signs. They may be for you, your business, to be sold for profit, and/or to be intended for resale by your customers. However, you cannot use the font in a system that allows your customers to create and customize their own signs. An additional license may be available for this use.

T-shirts

You may use the font to create t-shirts. They may be for you, your business, to be sold for profit, and/or to be intended for resale by your customers. However, you cannot use the font in a system that allows your customers to create and customize their own t-shirts. An additional license may be available for this use.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I create a coffee mug, pen, greeting card etc. to be sold for profit?
Can I create clothing to be sold for profit?
Can I create graphical titles, credits, or captions for a movie?
Can I create a logo for my business?
I am a graphic designer. Can I create logos, websites or other products for my clients?
Can I temporarily distribute the font to a printer, designer or developer?
Can I modify the outlines in my artwork to make it how I want it?
Can I embedded the font in a PDF document and email it to people, sell it, or make it available on my website?
If my business becomes really successful and I have branded myself with the font, will I need to pay more later?
Can I use a dingbat to create a logo or product where the main image is the dingbat?
Can I use the font to make house numbers or stamps that would then be sold one letter at a time?
Can I build the font into a computer game, mobile app, eBook, phone, printer, TV or camera?
Can I use the font in my web service that allow my customers to compose items such as business cards, marketing materials, collateral items and photobooks?