Buying paid fonts

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Tell me about the mechanism for buying fonts - if a client buys paid fonts - what format will he get? What needs to be done on the site to show that they are legal?

For example, he will buy Helvetica Neue Ultra Light and Myriad Pro. Should he be given a TTF? How to convert them to WOFF, because online generators forbid converting paid fonts? And on the site how to show that they are purchased?

Answer 1

As for converting, I don’t know about paid fonts, but there is a wonderful article about icon fonts habrahabr.ru/post/141126/ , but what is described there can be easily applied even when there is already a ttf font (there is an instruction under Linux). You can also look at what fonts are supported by browsers: www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webfonts/quick/?redirect_from_locale=en .
Since I didn’t need .oet, then all the conversion I had was to install fontforge and python-fontforge and run the following script github.com/fontello/font-builder/blob/master/bin/fontconvert.py :

python fontconvert.py -i path_to_font.ttf -o output_font_name

For .eot we put ttf2eot and:

ttf2eot < path_to_font.ttf > path_to_eot_font.eot

If this option helps you, then say thanks to Vitaly
And it's better that you immediately give both ttf, and svg, and woff, and eot.

Answer 2

You don’t need to show anything on the site - if the copyright holders contact you - then you will prove it, but this is unlikely to happen at all. As for the ban on conversion, download the program for converting fonts, for example, I use FontLab, it's easy to correct information about the font, including the name. Change the name and put it in the generator)

Answer 3

A purchased ttf can be converted to a web version if embedding is allowed in its properties.
What you can do with the font is specified in the license under which you purchased it. And fonts can be sold in different formats for different platforms and under different licenses. You can also buy the web version. Accordingly, when buying fonts, you need to understand why they are bought and which version to take.
For example, Myriad Pro can be used on websites through Typekit (annual subscription costs $24.99).