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)
How can I remove the DSIG and other metadata from the ttf file while keeping it usable?
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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[–] ElderReflections@kbin.social 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Landmammals@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whats the difference?

[–] hai@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Awesome, thank you! I'll try that