Using Fonts in Design (How Not to Infringe Property Rights)

Question

Fonts

I want to figure out how legal it is to use some fonts in the design that come with the OS (and have become “standard” on the web).

It is clear that you can always refer to a font in CSS. And if I make the text a picture and put it on the web? What if I want to use the font in printing? And if I take it as the basis of the logo?

What about the "standard" fonts: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Times? What if I want something more exotic, but also “standard”, in the sense that comes with the OS: Vivaldi, Comic Sans, etc.?

It is interesting from the point of view of the legislation of the Russian Federation and Europe.

Answer 1

This thing applies to Windows fonts - Copyright: Typeface and data? 1996 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved
Family Name: Verdana
Copyright: Typeface and data? 1996 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved
Style: Regular
Version: Version 2.41
Authors: Matthew Carter
Tahoma , by the way, costs 30 bucks.
You can use this form to make a request, and you will be contacted about the rights to use the font in each specific case.

Answer 2

Would also recommend reading.
One , two .
By the way, it's interesting.
It is clearly illegal to use the "Verdana" font, the rights to which are owned by Microsoft, when viewing documents, say, in the Consultant Plus program, if this program is used outside the Windows operating system, for example, through appropriate emulators, on Linux. For non-Microsoft fonts, Microsoft emphasizes that the license does not provide sublicensing rights, and you must contact the font manufacturer for use on a case-by-case basis. Accordingly, you can use the same Times New Roman font only after obtaining the consent of its copyright holder.
Because of these problems, the creators of the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" or "Fedora"7 operating system were forced to enter into an agreement to acquire the rights to fonts that look similar to Times New Roman (these fonts are currently available under the name "Liberation").

Answer 3

Perhaps this will be useful to you.

Answer 4

At my previous job, they removed fonts owned by microsoft from their product.
Too lazy to license and used a free similar in style.