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What can I do with the typefaces I downloaded from Open Font Library?

All the font files you can download from this site are licensed as free software, usually available under the Open Font License (OFL) but sometimes as contributions to the public domain.

We care about quality and respecting author and user rights.

We want users to be granted the following rights:

• Use in personal and commercial documents. You can use a font in documents like word processor files and PDFs, and also in web pages.

• Redistribute the font files. You can send them to a printer alongside all your pre-press files. If you haven't modified them, perhaps just sending a link to this site is better, so people can get full copies of the whole typeface. You cannot sell fonts licensed under the OFL on their own, but you can include them in distributions of software that people pay for.

• Edit the font data. We hope you will decide to modify some of the fonts available here. If you do modify a font and choose to redistribute it, please also redistribute your source files so others have the same ability to make changes as you do. When you redistribute edited fonts, we also ask you not to do anything that states or implies that a modified font has the same name as the original, or was made only by the original designer. This is a condition of use for fonts licensed under OFL and it also prevents a lot of confusion for everyone.

Can I change or enhance existing typefaces?

Yes!

• Remixing. The Open Font License allows you to modify the font you downloaded as much as you like so long as you do not redistribute it under the same typeface name as the original file. You can mix together the outlines from as many OFL licensed typefaces you like.

• Contributing to existing typefaces. If you want to add characters to that typeface then you need to contact the person who made it and offer your work as a contribution, not a new typeface. FONTLOG files provide contact information that should help you to do this easily.

What license should I use to upload my work to the Open Font Library?

We recommend using the Open Font License (OFL).

The OFL is the only license tuned to the characteristics of digital fonts: the way they’re created and the way they’re used. The terminology and provisions of the license are clear to font designers and to typographers.

Please see our page on other licenses for more details.

Can I add a font by somebody else?

Yes, but please note that if you add a font that you did not originally create, you cannot choose which license that font has. So unless it is already published as a public domain work, or with the Open Font License, you will need to contact the original designer and ask them to publish their font with the OFL.