Is the small round font free for commercial use:Founder Company officially responded that Microsoft Yahei is not a free font-Font Tutorial免费ppt模版下载-道格办公

Recently, Microsoft's Yahei font has once again sparked widespread public discussion, and it was once on the Internet hot search list.

The cause is rumored to be that a company intern used Microsoft Yahei and pirated PS software to print 50 million samples and use them for commercial purposes, resulting in the company being sued and losing 28.6 million yuan.

According to the well-known Internet blogger @网络的That点事件, a self-proclaimed employee of a certain company said, "The interns used Microsoft Yahei and pirated PS, received a lawsuit from Founder Group and Adobe, and the sample printing factory printed 50 million copies. National business, the company lost 28.6 million, laid off 8 supervisors, and 42 people. I happened to be one of them."

Later, although Founder Font’s official Weibo responded and explained that the authorization fee had nothing to do with the number of prints, and the font authorization fee for advertisements was 4,500 yuan, the discussion that Microsoft Yahei is not a free font has once again attracted public attention.

What is the relationship between "Microsoft Yahei" and "Founder Typeface"? A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily recently asked the customer service staff of Founder Font as a consultant.

The other party explained that as early as when Microsoft entered China, Microsoft commissioned Founder of Peking University to create the Microsoft Yahei font, but the copyright still belonged to Founder of Peking University. When users use the Windows operating system, Microsoft Yahei fonts can be used for free for display on the screen or for personal printing; however, copyright fees need to be paid for the purpose of "commercial release". Among the paid fonts, the authorization fee for the so-called basic fonts is 7,000 yuan per year, and the authorization fee for the so-called high-quality fonts is as high as 20,000 yuan per year.

In addition, regarding the fact that Microsoft Yahei font has no obvious copyright statement or payment reminder in the Windows operating system, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily contacted the person in charge of the marketing department of Founder of Peking University, and the person in charge said that he would not accept an interview.

In fact, as early as two years ago, there have been many infringement complaints from Founder for using Microsoft Yahei fonts. Many people reported on the Internet that they have received Founder’s alleged infringement when using Microsoft Yahei fonts on Taobao posters. And it is said that if Microsoft Yahei fonts are used for publicity, the annual usage fee will be as high as 30,000 yuan.

Earlier, in 2007, Founder sued Blizzard for font infringement and claimed 100 million yuan. The other party used Microsoft Yahei fonts. In 2009, the amount of the claim rose to 408 million yuan, causing controversy from all walks of life. In May 2012, the final judgment was made, and the defendants such as Blizzard were awarded 2 million yuan in compensation.

At present, the safest Chinese fonts used in web design in a broad sense are Song Ti, Fang Song, Hei Ti, Kai Ti, Li Shu, and You Yuan. These fonts have been around for a long time and the copyright cannot be traced back.

The other is the Siyuan font series jointly developed by Google and Adobe’s online font library Typekityu. The interface used by Google in China, Japan and Korea provides 7 types of bold fonts with different sizes and thicknesses: ExtraLight, Light, Normal, Regular, Medium, Bold and Heavy, perfectly covering the whole system of Chinese characters.