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Andria Villaneuva
Andria Villaneuva
428 Points
Posted by Andria Villaneuva
Andria Villaneuva
428 Points

Font licensing for website needed?

I'm using Brush Script MT Italic and the Avenir font family for a branding/website client. As these are fonts already installed on my computer, do I have the ability to imbed them into a website without the need to buy special licensing to use them? This is my first gig in web design, and I'm fuzzy on the topic. Any help would be appreciated!

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Roger Lüchinger
Roger Lüchinger
11,403 Points
Roger Lüchinger
Roger Lüchinger
11,403 Points

Both Brush Script MT and Avenir are commercial fonts, so you would have to get a license if you want to use them legally. Just because they come with a program on your computer does not mean that you are allowed to use them on the web, apart from the fact that you may need a different format to embed these fonts on the web.

So your first option is to get a license for these two fonts from the publishers Microsoft (Brush Script MT) and Linotype (Avenir) which is not too expensive.

Your second option is to find a free font which is similar to the two fonts you mention. There is a very big selection of free fonts, which are often very close to their "role-models". Here's two links to get you started: https://www.google.com/fonts http://www.dafont.com/