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How to pirate a font (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have bought a font with a really shitty license agreement and I have a couple of questions.

  1. How can I best share the font with the community? (I am afraid of metadata in the font files, which may be tied to my payment account etc. - I had to register and log in to download the ttf files)

  2. How can I remove the DSIG and other metadata from the ttf file while keeping it usable?

  3. Are they able to detect it if I use the font in a commercial product online by crawling my website and if yes, how could I prevent an automatic detection attempt?

To my (and possibly your) surprise, I didn't find any free downloads of the font online. Their license is tied to a personal account, you have to log into once a year to keep the license. As far as I understand they theoretically could use the DSIG to let the ttf files "expire", at least when used in software that verifies the signature. But I may be wrong, please let me know.

Thanks in advance and cheers-I mean ARR

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fonttools includes a tool to convert TTF to XML and back again. Makes it easy to inspect and remove unwanted metadata

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What's fun about that, is that fonts are copyrightable, but typefaces are not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Whats the difference?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Basically style vs the instructions that make up the font. It’s lead to a lot of rip offs (see: Helvetica vs. Arial).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Awesome, thank you! I'll try that