: Does the swis721 font family cost money now? I was hired on 4 months ago to a company that had, in the past, been using the swis721 font family for a lot of their marketing materials. From

I was hired on 4 months ago to a company that had, in the past, been using the swis721 font family for a lot of their marketing materials.

From old emails, I can see that there was talk of switching over to Myriad instead and remaking the logo with Arial font. It seems like that switch was never fully made. I was told that I should be able to download and install the swis721 font family no problem. "It's a free font," they say.

One of my external graphics guys keeps sending me the files (since they're in use in one of our InDesign docs), but I receive them as file type "file" with size 0kb.

Should I assume that the files keep getting corrupted? Or does this font family cost money now and that's why I'm having issues?

I'm happy to buy the font, I just don't know what's going on.

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Swiss 721 is a commercial font distributed by Bitstream:
www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/swiss-721/
It is actually Helvetica, but way back when. Bitstream managed to license a line of fonts, but not the actual names of said fonts, so Bitstream has a whole line of fonts that are essentially clones with a "generic" name replacing the original. (For instance, Humanist 521 is essentially Gill Sans).

Bottom line, no, it's not a free font. You technically are supposed to have a license of the font yourself.

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