2016-04-25
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Some time ago, my friends were discussing in the group which commercial fonts are available for free,
For example, is the commonly used Microsoft Yahei free?
In fact, not only novices, even veterans are not fully aware of what is free for commercial use.
At first, I thought Founder didn't have free fonts. Little Z told me that Founder actually has four free fonts:Founder HeiTi, Founder Book Song, Founder Fang Song, and Founder KaiTi.
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To prevent myself from misleading the public.
So I went to Founder's official website to check...
But I found this sentence from the membership charter:
Professional members have to pay an annual fee...
The two statements are inconsistent, so which one shall prevail? ...
So I called Fangzheng and got the official answer:
These four fonts can be used for commercial printing, or website design, graphic design,
But no! able! embedded! enter!
That is: it cannot be embedded in any app, game or other interface.
That is! The app can only use this font in the form of a picture, not in an embedded form!
If you embed it, you have to consult Founder to know the correct copyright authorization price!
You must pay attention to this! ! ! So if you have any authorization questions about the use of fonts, be sure to call to consult.
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Also, is Microsoft Yahei free? ?
Many novice designers do not know that Microsoft Yahei is actually designed by Founder commissioned by Microsoft, and it is a paid font belonging to Founder. Avoid!
It is important to say it three times!
Microsoft Yahei requires authorization for commercial use!
Microsoft Yahei requires authorization for commercial use!
Microsoft Yahei requires authorization for commercial use!
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The conclusion is that
Even official free commercial fonts,
Maybe only for graphic design and printing, website interface graphic design, etc.
If you need to embed in app, game, system, PDF
You also need to determine if authorization is required.
The following table is a catalog of free fonts that can be used commercially. Although there are few fonts, they are not infringing:
(As of now, the official real-time policy shall prevail) http://zenozeng.github.io
Introduction to several commonly used commercial fonts:
Mainly look at the table above, so I won’t introduce them one by one here.
Siyuan Blackbody
English name "SourceHanSans", first released on July 16, 2014,Adobe and Google led the development of sans serif boldface, supports traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and has its own 7 font weights.
Siyuan is the font with the largest number of words, andcan be used for free without restriction, and it is also a good-looking font.
Wenquanyi
was founded in October 2004 by FangQian, a scholar in the United States, focusing on solving the shortage of high-quality Chinese fonts on GNU/Linux. At present, the first multi-standard dot matrix Chinese character library that completely covers GB18030 Chinese characters (including more than 27,000 Chinese characters) has been released, and the first open source vector font library (Wenquanyi Zhenghei) that covers the GBK character set, and provides the currently included characters The largest number of open source fonts - GNU Unifont - the vast majority of CJK-related symbols. These fonts have gradually become the preferred Chinese fonts for Chinese desktops of mainstream Linux/Unix distributions.
Zhanku high-end black
The "Hundred Dance of Chinese Characters" project was initiated by font designers Hu Xiaobo and Liu Bingke. 100 font designers were recruited from Zcool.com to create a set of fonts for free permanent download.
Wang Hanzong font
Professor Wang Hanzong from the Mathematics Department of Chung Yuan University, Taiwan, who developed the Tiancan font library, first donated ten sets of WCL series fonts and 32 sets of new fonts in 2000 and 2004 respectively, all of which are licensed under the GPL for free use. The teacher is worthy of admiration!
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