What kinds of web typography does my license allow?
Your End-User License Agreement allows you to use fonts online in ways that don't transmit the font data, expose the fonts directly to readers, or compromise the security or integrity of the fonts. For example, you can use the following formats online:
— Bitmap graphics (gif, jpg, png) There's no difference between using a font to create a printed page and using it to create a pixellated image. As long as the person creating the images has licensed the fonts, no additional license is needed.
— Vector art (swf) Because Flash files embed actual portions of a font's sourcecode within themselves, our font licenses require that designers observe some basic safety precautions when publishing Flash files. Text in Flash files must be static (not dynamic), the files must embed only a subset of the character set, and the "Protect from Import" option must be enabled when the files are generated.
— sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) sIFR is a great technology that brings rich typography to the web through a combination of Javascript, CSS and Flash. To use an H&FJ font with sIFR, purchase an additional single-computer font license for the webserver itself, and then configure sIFR's customize_me.as file in two ways to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the system: first, set the allowedDomains array to include only the domain of your website (instead of "*"), and then set allowlocal to "false" before publishing the .swf to the web.
H&FJ is committed to making web typography as easy as possible: easy for developers to implement and maintain, easy for foundries to provide, and easy for readers to read. We believe that fonts should be experienced as text, not images, and are working toward a CSS-based solution that will allow designers to deploy our work with ease. However, the use of the CSS @font-face tag is not currently allowed under any H&FJ license. Such use constitutes the illegal distribution of our font software, and is therefore not permitted under any circumstances. The hosting of our font software in whole or in part, in any format, by any web server or other computational architecture capable of delivering web pages or components, is expressly prohibited under our End-User License Agreement.
If you are exploring other technologies that aren't covered here, please contact us at
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