copyright
Sharing name logos made with copyrighted fonts
<p>Is it legal to share name logos for free that I made using copyrighted fonts? Do I need to write which font I used?</p>

<p>It depends what the license for the font says.</p>
<p>The license for Windows fonts, for example, allows pretty much anything including commercial use. You can freely design and distribute a logo containing Comic Sans!</p>

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<p>As far as <strong>copyright</strong> goes, such acts are explicitly allowed in the United Kingdom.</p>
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<ol start="54">
<li>(1) It is not an infringement of copyright in an artistic work consisting of the design of a typeface—<br />
(a) to use the typeface in the ordinary course of typing, composing text, typesetting or printing,<br />
(b) to possess an article for the purpose of such use, or<br />
(c) to do anything in relation to material produced by such use;<br />
and this is so notwithstanding that an article is used which is an infringing copy of the work.</li>
</ol>
<p>— <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/54" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Copyright Designs &amp; Patents Act 1998</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>A licence cannot impose copyright restrictions on acts which are explicitly allowed in legislation. You are using a typeface (section 54(1)(a)) and distributing material produced (section 54(1)(c)).</p>
<p>The licence could regulate other acts.</p>
