Font Craze! | Graphics Design
Part of the fun of graphics designing is playing around with different fonts. Your computer will not have the explosion of fonts that you need to be creative. It just won't. And Times New Romans won't get you much of anywhere.
Here is a list of the fonts that I have on my computer. And honestly, it's a really small list for a graphics designer. I'm getting there slowly.
A couple of things you want to watch for before cramming your computer with thousands of fonts. If you're designing thing...
Here is a list of the fonts that I have on my computer. And honestly, it's a really small list for a graphics designer. I'm getting there slowly.
A couple of things you want to watch for before cramming your computer with thousands of fonts. If you're designing thing...
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Willowy wrote: "Hey, Amanda. I use Dafont, and a lot of the fonts I download do say "for personal use only". In the past, I've pretty much disregarded this, as I only use the fonts on my blog, personal things, or ..."Hey Willowy! Fonts are designed by people and, just like you wrote a book and own that story, the designers created the font and own the font. Many people will sell their fonts for commercial use (i.e. if you're going to be using the font and selling the product you used it on--like a book cover) but like I said in the post, many will have commercial fonts up for free (like the ones I listed). People can actually get in legal trouble for using a font that is NOT for commercial use, if they are making a profit from using it. It would be equivalent to if someone copied your book and tried selling it (I know--terrifying thought!).
Hope that helps explain it a little. :)
Oh, thanks for explaining it! It's hard to tell how many of my covers have those fonts on them...but I guess I'll just be aware for future references. You don't think I could get in trouble for the ones already done, do you?
Willowy wrote: "Oh, thanks for explaining it! It's hard to tell how many of my covers have those fonts on them...but I guess I'll just be aware for future references. You don't think I could get in trouble for the..."You're welcome! I, thankfully, heard about it before I started designing covers.
As for getting in trouble, I just like to say that one can never be TOO careful. I don't think people are out to get small-name Indie authors. However, for me personally, I like to try to do things as legally as possible. I realize that sometimes this means extra work. :/ But it's up to you.
I work with a non-profit. A person associated with our group (an part-time off-campus individual) wrote a blog post with a picture sourced online and linked it up to one of our web pages without checking copyright info (after all, it was just a random image online.) It was not done for profit. We were fined and had to pay royalties to the image owner despite not profiting from it monetarily because it was unauthorized use.Apparently there are people who are paid by agencies to find infractions online (like collections, they earn money by getting a cut of the money recovered by the image owner) and who are not above looking into small personal blog pages.
I would highly advise you to fix your covers or research who the owner of the font is and get permission.
Why do I need to use commercial free only? What's the difference?
Thank you so much for this post, and your fonts are lovely!