: What is the best way to obtain fonts to use for something commercially produced? I am looking for fonts to use for a bound planner of sorts that I am making for myself, but possibly to sell

@Kimberly620

The full license of OFL can be found here. SIL OFL license is a somewhat permissive copyleft license. Itis unfortunately a viral license. So it is not entirely suited for every action. It is however not similarly viral as using GPL:ed components as it only affects the font itself and leaves rest of your stuff intact.

To be clear. In the usecase that you describe it seem perfectly fine. But i am not a lawyer, and not your lawyer so dont take this as legal advice.

There are other permissive font licenses other permissive font licenses such as:


Apache 2.0 (example Caladea)
CC-BY (example Grundschrift. More permissive than SIL)
MIT (example Couture. More permissive than SIL)
CC-0 (Example Aileron) ← This is as permissive as it gets! It expressly waives ALL RIGHTS. So you could modify, rename and CLAIM rights on the new font!

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@Ravi4787994

When in doubt, read the license


[SIL Open Font License] enables font authors to release their work under a common license that allows use, bundling, modification and redistribution.


That's about as open as it gets.

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