Today, I’m excited to release new, improved licensing for my fonts! That may sound strange if you are into fonts for their aesthetics rather than for their licensing (i.e. you are a normal person). arrowtype.com/ArrowType-EULA…

Really, though, upgrading my font EULA has been a fairly big project, and one of my most important ones! When you “buy a font,” you are *really* buying a license to that font, so the license is a huge part of the product I sell.

More than that, font licensing allows a type foundry to assert their beliefs about what is useful and fair to sell for a given price. The biggest upgrades to my EULA are...

→ It allows people to do more with the fonts, including embedding them into apps and ebooks. → It is a lot more clear about what usage is allowed, rather than just what is disallowed. It also (tries to) use language that is as readable as possible, avoiding legalese.

→ It switches from a model based on desktop installations to one based on company size. This is inspired by the licensing from foundries like @abcdinamo and @mass_driver_tm. It simplifies the whole licensing process, and allows a company to use fonts much more freely.

→ It specifically allows several types of font modifications, especially in terms of what you can do with variable fonts, subsetting fonts for the web, and outlining fonts for artwork like logos and posters, etc.

→ It specifies who the new version of licensing applies to: customers who buy the fonts now and in the future, while this current EULA is in place. For existing customers, the original EULA you purchased stays valid.