These fonts are free for recreational, hobby, and educational purposes. You may redistribute these fonts provided the copyright information remains intact, and this license accompanies them.
License is also granted for the use of these fonts on commercial websites or for redistribution from commercial website, provided no fee is charged for use of or access to these fonts, that the copyright information remains intact, and this license accompanies the fonts.
You are NOT permitted to seek payment for access to these fonts.
You are NOT permitted to use these fonts for commercial purposes other than for the use in displaying graphics or text on the web. If you need official fonts for offline, commercial purposes (including but not limited to the actual creation of highway signage), please contact professional vendors for official fonts.
The creator of these fonts assumes no liability for accidents or losses caused by the use of these fonts. Although an attempt has been made to replicate official highway sign fonts in the creation of these fonts, no claim is made about these fonts actually satisfying any particular specification. Use these fonts at your own risk. Do not spindle, fold, or mutilate. Do not taunt happy fun ball.
10 responses so far ↓
1 Brad Pedigo // 2 Jan 2007 at 10:18 pm
Hi,
I downloaded your RoadGeek fonts today, but I cannot find the license that I need to use them. When I try to copy the fonts into my Font folder in Windows, they don’t carry over.
The license page I went to is http://miketheactuary.triskele.com/roadgeek-fonts/font-license/, but there’s nothing there to fill out or acknowledge.
Please advise.
Thanks
2 MikeTheActuary // 3 Jan 2007 at 9:56 am
The license is actually just the conditions I’ve put on using the fonts — the fancy way of saying, “please use these only for personal or hobby purposes”.
To download and install the fonts do the following (assuming Windows; Mac & Linux users mileage will vary).
Grab the zip file by clicking either the link in the sidebar of the page, or by clicking on the Roadgek graphic on the right side of the page.
Extract the fonts from the zip file.
Click Start >> Control Panel >> Fonts >> File >> Install New Font
3 Beep // 9 Oct 2007 at 6:43 pm
Please note that US copyright law prohibits the copy writing of typefaces, so these are in the Public domain.
4 MikeTheActuary // 9 Oct 2007 at 7:23 pm
Actually, while typefaces themselves cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law, the instructions for how to create the typefaces (e.g. ttf files) are copyrightable.
Thus, the reason I’m posting clones.
5 TechMath // 25 Nov 2007 at 5:33 pm
I am going to use the fonts in my school project, (note: it has school, county, and state levels). Is that okay without putting the license anywhere on my project? I am going to put this site in my bibliography.
6 MikeTheActuary // 25 Nov 2007 at 7:25 pm
That’s quite all right.
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8 Martin E. // 16 Mar 2008 at 11:11 am
Did you make the fonts free only for noncommercial use to avoid possible legal issues, or because you didn’t want people to gain from your efforts?
9 MikeTheActuary // 16 Mar 2008 at 4:52 pm
That depends on how you define “legal issue”. In terms of pure avoidance — I don’t want my fonts used commercially because I don’t warrant they meet specs. They’re close, but they aren’t perfect. And, if for some unknown reason someone were injured because of specs not perfectly being replicated in my fonts…that’s something I don’t want to be responsible for.
I also am paranoid of lawyers. Copyright law in the U.S. is somewhat complex when it comes to fonts. It’s legal within copyright law to create fonts that appear essentially identical to another, but it’s not legal to redistribute instructions on how to create fonts (i.e., TTF/OTF files, or indexes of vertices). I believe that I’ve stayed on the correct side of that fine line…but I don’t want to antagonize any commercial foundry by taking away likely customers.
The only folks who should be using these fonts are those who would go without the font (or recreate it themselves) if these didn’t exist.
And finally — I did spend a lot of time figuring out how to put these fonts together. I’m not asking for compensation for other hobbyists who might want to use them, and I think it would be unfair for others to seek compensation for something I’m just sharing.
10 james // 2 Aug 2008 at 10:47 am
so, we can’t resell your ttf files, but we can use the individual characters for commercial purposes, seeing as typefaces themselves can’t be copyrighted, right?
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