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How to pirate a font (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have bought a font with a really shitty license agreement and I have a couple of questions.

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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Well, if you really want to keep it you could drag it into a vector graphic editing software and trace each letter, make your own font set

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Side question, does anyone have suggestions for a decent free vector editing software? I've been meaning to just search for one for a long time but I always forget about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It’s a bit more barebones but I really like BoxySVG

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