Can I free use tahoma font in app development?
Tahoma is not one of the fonts included on the iPhone or iPad (see here for a list). There are ways to bundle a font with your app, but you'd have to have an appropriate license to do so. As a workaround, it may be allowed to include pre-rendered graphic files with your app that use Tahoma.
(per your previous question: Tahoma may show up in the font picker in Interface Builder, but that's just the standard system-wide font picker, and all it indicates is that you have Tahoma installed on your Mac)
Well the typography FAQ from microsoft says that
"You are not allowed to copy,
redistribute or reverse engineer the
font files"
A number of Microsoft fonts are now
available to end users, ISVs and OEMs
under license from Ascender
Corporation. These include 'Verdana',
'Georgia', 'Comic Sans MS', 'Microsoft
Sans Serif', 'Nina', 'Tahoma',
'Wingdings', 'Webdings' and 'Trebuchet
MS'.
from what i understand you are supposed to buy a license from Ascender Corp. if you want to use them in your product.
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Our Design Team uses Adobe Fonts and gave us a https://use.typekit.net/qwertyuiop.css URL to embed in our Flutter Web Project.
/*
* The Typekit service used to deliver this font or fonts for use on websites
* is provided by Adobe and is subject to these Terms of Use
* http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/tou_typekit. For font license
* information, see the list below.
*
* anton:
* - http://typekit.com/eulas/00000000000000003b9b1327
*
* © 2009-2020 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.
*/
/*{"last_published":"2020-10-08 12:06:43 UTC"}*/
#import url("https://p.typekit.net/p.css?s=1&k=uws7ddb&ht=tk&f=10881.10882.10884.10885.15357.15358.15361.15362.15898.32874.32875&a=11875597&app=typekit&e=css");
#font-face {
font-family:"anton";
src:url("https://use.typekit.net/af/123456/00000000000000003b9b1327/27/l?primer=7cdcb44be4a7db8877ffa5c0007b123865b3bbc383831fe2ea177f62257a9191&fvd=n4&v=3") format("woff2"),url("https://use.typekit.net/af/123456/00000000000000003b9b1327/27/d?primer=7cdcb44be4a7db8877ffa5c0007b123865b3bbc383831fe2ea177f62257a9191&fvd=n4&v=3") format("woff"),url("https://use.typekit.net/af/123456/00000000000000003b9b1327/27/a?primer=7cdcb44be4a7db8877ffa5c0007b123865b3bbc383831fe2ea177f62257a9191&fvd=n4&v=3") format("opentype");
font-display:auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;
}
.tk-anton { font-family: "anton",sans-serif; }
Do you know how to embed such a CSS File in a Flutter Web Project?
Thank you!
Flutter is an app development platform, and Adobe Fonts does not support app licensing, so most fonts at Adobe Fonts cannot be used in an app. However, you're in luck this time, because the font in question, Anton, is an open-source font and is also available from Google Fonts.
So in this case, you can download Anton from Google Fonts and then follow Flutter's Use a custom font tutorial.
As for the majority of the Adobe Fonts library, the designer and/or type foundry that made the typeface is listed on every page, so check there first. Many of them sell app licenses through their own website, or they'll have links from their website to the marketplaces where they license their fonts, like Fontspring and MyFonts.
My App uses a custom ancient font for a language that is about to be extinct, interesting right.
Now I am using the custom font thru out my app but I need to install the font into the iOS operating system I hope this is possible so that I can copy and paste text from my app into other apps like email, SMS and especially Facebook otherwise the chars come up as squares because Apple don't even support their unicode.
I think its possible because AnyFont is an app that does that without jailbreaking.
This feature is a crucial feature for users using the app to be able to communicate with the language.
So this would be much appreciated if someone could help me with some hints please.
I am not sure if I need to post code here !.
Thank you,
Kind Regards,
Will
You have to create a configuration profile for each font. With the manual installation by the user of that profile the font will be available for Numbers, Keynote and some others. It's available since iOS 7.
See Apple's reference page for that. Basically, you have to use the Font Payload:
A Font payload lets you add an additional font to an iOS device. Font
payloads are designated by specifying com.apple.font as the
PayloadType value. You can include multiple Font payloads, as needed.
...
Each payload must contain exactly one font file in TrueType (.ttf)
or OpenType (.otf) format. Collection formats (.ttc or .otc) are not
supported.
You can also take a look at here:
http://www.saturngod.net/create-custom-font-for-ios-7
If you're using a Mac, you can also checkout Apple's Apple Configurator which allows you to create those MDM profiles too.
I am deep into designing my first iOS app and was curious as to which fonts are most commonly used (or the best). Also, what sizes are used for feed items, names, title, etc....
System fonts (used by the OS everywhere by default) is Helvetica, and Helvetica Neue
I am not sure if you are looking for data on apps using non-system fonts.
Helvetica is probably the most commonly used font and is usually their system default. I don't know if there is a best as that is opinion.
I want to use GOTHAM font in my iOS application. I see how I can drag and use the font since 3.2 but how do I license it?
http://richardwarrender.com/2010/08/custom-fonts-on-ipad-and-iphone/
How do I pay for a license for iOS? I can purchase a license for 1 CPU through here: http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100008
I recently had this exact discussion with H&FJ. They license a whole family (like Gotham) per app, per year. It's an add-on to the desktop license, so you'll need a legit one of those, too.
Probably not appropriate for me to say here what they quoted, but it was either completely reasonable, or completely insane, depending on what you think a font should cost. Let's just say that the pricing reflects corporate branding market economics, not small app developer economics.
Explain your use case to them in an email to oem#typography.com.
Also, I'll point out that you should look at iosfonts.com. The list of built-in fonts is getting pretty impressive. In particular, Helvetica Neue has a ton of different weights available.
You will need to get a commercial license for the font, if there isn't a link easily visible on the site, you should contact the author and ask him/her directly for the price and availability of a commercial license for that specific font.
A commercial license gives you the right of using the product in a commercial project of your own, and to redistribute that product within yours.
I would like to modify a couple fonts already available on iOS -- for instance, Helvetica Neue -- to use a different line height, and then include these modified fonts in my application bundle. Nevermind why -- let's just say I need to use them in a UITextView, so modifying the appearance with CSS is impossible.
Would Apple reject an app for bundling a modified version of one of these fonts? Would it violate copyright in some way, or perhaps an Apple guideline for developers?
This is not a programming question per se, so I hope no one is offended that I have asked it here -- I did not know of a better place in the StackExchange universe.
It would be a copyright violation.