Cufon fonts

I’m confused -

I’ve seen some templates use commercial fonts (like Myriad Pro), and those .js files have Adobe copyright in the header.

How is this allowed?

(reposting here because item discussion threads don’t show up in All topics)

”...All fonts produced by Adobe Systems can be embedded in Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files, as well as other types of files…”

Quoted from here: http://www.adobe.com/type/embedding.html

In other words, this means you can embed them in cufon etc. for free.

”...All fonts produced by Adobe Systems can be embedded in Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files, as well as other types of files…”

Quoted from here: http://www.adobe.com/type/embedding.html

In other words, this means you can embed them in cufon etc. for free.

So if I buy any font, and convert it with Cufon and bundle with my theme, anyone can use that? Even if they didn’t buy the font?

Sounds strange to me…

I dont think you can bundle the font in with the final download. Just provide a link/info about the font used and the buyer can then buy/download the font or choose another font.

I dont think you can bundle the font in with the final download. Just provide a link/info about the font used and the buyer can then buy/download the font or choose another font.

ok I found this thread. I’ve seen a few themes including embedded fonts, so what’s really allowed ? Everybody seem to have a different opinion, so maybe the best is to have an explicit answer from the font creator no ?

I’ve added the Museo typeface with Cufon inside one of my themes and since there where some doubts about using that font together with the Cufon script I’ve contacted the Creator of that font and he gave me written permission.

So when your not sure about things you need ask the creator of that font or dig trough there licenses.

And as for as i know of you can’t use Myriad Pro together with Cufon.

Does anybody know if VAG Rounded can be used?

And as for as i know of you can’t use Myriad Pro together with Cufon.

I asked Epicera and Webcrafters on this and they said too that it’s okay…

Here’s a quote from this topic http://themeforest.net/forums/thread/legal-font-use/15418

Fonts like MyriadPro, Helvetica Neue, Lubalin Demi, MayberryPro and so on are not free fonts, therefore you are doing something illegal by converting them for use with Cufon and redistributing them for sale with your templates.

So this is what i thought as well, always check the licenses of the font types. If anybody else has something to ad to this then feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.