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kristína_6366
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July 19, 2025
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Change of Font’s license in future

  • July 19, 2025
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Hey, I have hypothetical question. 

Our company would like to use Nunito font for commercial use - website, online banners, print visuals & etc, we would like to incorporate it into our visual identity as our main font.
Question is, if creator of this font (or person/company) who has the main copyright for this font, decides to change license - Nunito wont be free to use commercially anymore but it will require license buy, will our company have to buy license to this font if I already used this font when it was free to use? Or will be the paid version of this font released as something like version 2.0 and I could still use old version 1.0 which was free to use when I downloaded it for free from google fonts? I think something similar happened to Gotham Rounded - it was for free and then they changed to be paid font and I wouldnt like this to happen with font my company would use. 
 
Thank you very much in advance

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    Bobby HendersonCommunity Expert
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    July 20, 2025

    To be on the safe side you'll need to look up the user agreement terms of the font license you purchased. Generally speaking, if you live in the United States a perpetual license for a type family that you purchased would be yours for good regardless of what the type foundry decided to do later to change licensing terms. It's an "ex post facto" or "grandfather clause" situation. But that's only if the font license is truly perpetual. Some companies can be pretty sneaky with the verbiage they put in their user agreements.

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