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Re: Symbolset - symbol font using clever opentype ligature hack

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Post by bill-nordwall »

ejdyksen wrote: post #14
tylermenezes wrote: post #11

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.icon { speak: none; }

Last I checked, aural stylesheets aren't broadly supported. You'd be much better off using ARIA (which has pretty broad support from browser vendors and assistive technology vendors): Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter This keeps assistive technologies from rendering the text (not just screen readers, but Braille displays, etc). http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/

Support for aria-hidden is still pretty spotty: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201205/hiding_visible_...

Re: Symbolset - symbol font using clever opentype ligature hack

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Post by dedward »

dkulchenko wrote: post #30
sskylar wrote: post #28

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Thanks for your comment, we'll clarify that in the license. In short, the license covers your use in the software, websites, mobile apps, etc you create. The limitation is to prevent distribution to your software's users. For example, if your product was a CMS, you could embed SS in your app's UI, but you couldn't give it to your users to embed in their own websites without an extended license.

The limitation is to prevent distribution to your software's users. Isn't that an inherent requirement of using the font in software/websites/etc? If I have, say, an open source CMS, I'd have to ship the font somewhere with the code to be able to use it in the UI, no?

yes, but you cant give other people the ability to compose (use) these fonts...... they aren't yours to license.

They are licensed to you for use in your own apps, to display them, but you don't have the right to pass that on to others - pretty straightforward. Bad legalese, that's all.

Re: Symbolset - symbol font using clever opentype ligature hack

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Post by imajes »

biftek wrote: post #21
imajes wrote: post #18

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We're using a subset of the font that only includes the icons we're using on the site. The distributed font contains much more. :)

right. i'm excited to try it.

Re: Symbolset - symbol font using clever opentype ligature hack

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Post by chii »

dedward wrote: post #32
dkulchenko wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The limitation is to prevent distribution to your software's users. Isn't that an inherent requirement of using the font in software/websites/etc? If I have, say, an open source CMS, I'd have to ship the font somewhere with the code to be able to use it in the UI, no?

yes, but you cant give other people the ability to compose (use) these fonts...... they aren't yours to license. They are licensed to you for use in your own apps, to display them, but you don't have the right to pass that on to others - pretty straightforward. Bad legalese, that's all.

So in other words, a developer can display menu/text in their app in this font, but is not allowed to give the user a way to enter their own text and have this font rendered for them. Am i interpreting it correctly?

Re: Symbolset - symbol font using clever opentype ligature hack

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Post by dt7 »

sskylar wrote: post #28
dkulchenko wrote: post #15

Having trouble figuring out the license ( http://symbolset.com/license/ ), specifically: "You may not under any circumstances embed the licensed fonts into software or hardware products in which the fonts will be used by the purchasers of such products." By that are they only restricting adding the font as a selectable font for writing (i.e. WYSIWYG editors) or can you not use the font in your own software in any cas…

Thanks for your comment, we'll clarify that in the license. In short, the license covers your use in the software, websites, mobile apps, etc you create. The limitation is to prevent distribution to your software's users. For example, if your product was a CMS, you could embed SS in your app's UI, but you couldn't give it to your users to embed in their own websites without an extended license.

Is there a limit to the number of products one licensee can embed the font into?
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