I am looking for fonts for use in an embedded GUI application with a small display and keypad.
Are there any free fonts available that people have used?
What about the licenses for free fonts? Are there any special requirements for an application like an embedded GUI? For example, include the License in the source code.
Take the GNU FreeFont family fonts. The website talks about using these fonts in documents or altering them to fit your needs. If I have a way to import those fonts into my application (unaltered) and use them on my display, is that considered the same as using them to create a document with, let's say, AbiWord or OpenOffice?
Also, what are the practical differences between free (open source, e.g. GNU FreeFont), license free (e.g. Fonts from link in Mark Rushakoff's comment below) and royalty free as far as fonts are concerned?
I have had a lengthy string of emails with 'Caleb' from Adobe licensing because I wanted to use 'Myriad' for a GUI in a touch screen product. Here is my last email and his reply which contradict Nietzche-jou's answer to this topic:
Hi Caleb,
I imagine many people want to create apps for mobile phones using
Adobe fonts, especially as much of the Adobe Suite is set up for this
purpose (Flex, Air etc) so how do you licence fonts for use in apps to
be used in mobile phones? Or do Adobe not licence their fonts for use
in screen based products at all?
Thanks Corrie
Reply:
At this time, we do not currently license our fonts for use in
mobile apps except some very specific licenses we have created for
some table devices. There are a great many iOS apps that are
currently using our fonts that are using them illegally, and we are
looking into what our next steps will be.
Caleb
What fonts CAN a GUI designer use??
The X11 bitmap fonts are pretty dynamite, and the licenses for them are pretty unrestrictive: briefly, the Adobe fonts (Courier, Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Symbol, Times) say
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software
and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
granted, provided that the above copyright notices appear in all
copies and that both those copyright notices and this permission
notice appear in supporting documentation [etc.]
And the Bigelow & Holmes fonts (Lucida Sans/Bright/Typewriter) say
Users and possessors of this source code
are hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free copyright and
design patent license to use this code in individual and
commercial software.
Of course there are other conditions to fulfill about not modifying the fonts and providing the same copyright notices to the user.
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recently i developed application for ios and android. it allows users to upload audio files from their own storage to server . and i have tab into my app for displaying those audios files . most of files like songs and Dj music .. etc ..
does it legal if i upload it on google play store and appstore ?
Or is this considered copyright infringement?
You will be liable for copyright infringement even if it is a user-generated content.
Even if you didn't share copyrighted content or share trademark-infringing content yourself, you may be held responsible if other people do so on your server/app.
From Google Play Console agreement
We also don’t allow apps that encourage or induce infringement of intellectual property rights.
People could report each audio file separately, and your whole app as a 'a tool bypasses copyright technological protection measures'
I want to create a dashboard on Google Data Studio using a template provided by my organization but I can't find any helpful resource to do that so I'm tempted to think that's not even possible. I tried to use "Extract theme for image" option in GDS but didn't work properly since it just tries to emulate the colors from the image and not the template itself.
Any advice or suggestion will be much appreciated.
Unfortunately, there is no way to achieve this.
Although last versions of Google Data Studio contains resources to allow it to present dashboards as it were a presentation software, I don't think it is intended to offer advanced resources for this task, neighter make it compatible with other presentation softwares (especially if you're talking about third party software, as Microsoft PowerPoint).
The best you can do is to create your own dashboard, and try to mimic your company's provided template.
you could also use an image as theme, it will at least uses the colors of you company as you can see in the image below.
And that's unfortunally what you can do with it, and for powerpoint themes, you could also use Microsoft Power bi which is way more advanced that Google Data studio
I am looking for information on an installer software for Windows applications that may support some more advanced UI styles besides the usual and dated gray/squared artifacts popular on the early Windows days. At the moment we use InstallShield for the installation of our software and contacted them for information but after over a week we still haven't heard anything. Below a picture of an installer for mac with some more up to date UI which may in line with what I am looking for.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
You can give a try to Advanced Installer (paid) tool. It offers quite a few nice and modern UI styles.
Check their Surface style here
We are not getting Typekit fonts which are used in our website for Creating PDFs using WebSuperGoo - ABCPdf.
Is there are way to get this done?
Such usage, even if it could be made to work, would be explicitly against Typekit's reason for existing:
That’s where Typekit comes in. We’ve been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. We’ve built a technology platform that lets us to host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers the level of protection that type designers need without resorting to annoying and ineffective DRM.
Most fonts provided with Windows + Office have at least a "Print & Preview embedding allowed" status.
Is it therefore allowed to bundle these fonts inside a Windows application, and to have that application install these fonts temporarily during execution, without getting into any legal trouble?
The fonts would only be used for the GUI, not to generate any documents.
There are lots of free fonts out there too, but it'd be nice to know if no restrictions existed with the Windows fonts, provided they're temporarily installed (AddFontResource).
As with most types of software, font files are licensed, rather than sold. Licenses that govern the use of fonts vary from vendor to vendor but in general most licenses, including those covering the fonts Microsoft supplies with applications and Windows, do not allow the fonts to be embedded within applications or otherwise redistributed. Therefore, as a developer it is your responsibility to ensure that you have the required license rights for any font you embed within an application or otherwise redistribute.
This is from Windows MSDN site. You can find the page here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms753303.aspx
So it seems that you will need to get an open license 'shareware' style font. Another solution that I have used it the past is to create your own font. The site that I used was http://fontstruct.com/ which has a web tool to allow you to style your own font, it is free, plus there are some user created fonts that have an open license that you should be able to use - but be sure to check before hand.