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MediaGraphics
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July 12, 2022
Question

Disconnect published Muse site from Typekit/Adobe Fonts?

  • July 12, 2022
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Hi all!

FIRST A HORT NOTE:  Yes, despite Nancy's best efforts (which confuses many of us!), I am still knocking out GREAT websites with Muse. No significant issues at all.

 

QUESTION:

I handed off a site to a client who will host themselves. However, I neglected to set up self-hosted fonts before handing off the files and they are still hitting our Adobe fonts server account to serve their visitors.

 

This creates a few issues:  

1. They are no longer our active client and thus not paying anything. 

2. That means they don't pay into fees paid to Adobe, or any type designers. 

3. I don't think this free ride is fair to anyone.

4. This likely breaks a number of type licensing agreements, and does so using our account's access to Adobe's type servers. I'm not good with that.

 

So, how can we - remotely - disconnect that domain's access to our Adobe account?

1. I can hand them an updated file (project and exported site) set up to self-host, but they don't care or want to bother with it. Nor do they want to have to buy the fonts they now get for free.

2. Is there any control on Adobe's site to deny access from specific domains (which were entered into the HTML export/FTP upload dialogs)?

 

Thanks in advance!

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 12, 2022

You and your client are in violation of Adobe Fonts Terms of Service.  Your client needs their own paid subscription/font licenses to use the fonts.  Sharing subscriptions/font licenses is NOT allowed.  Just saying...

https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/font-licensing.html

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
MediaGraphics
Known Participant
July 12, 2022
YOU are just saying?
Wasn't that exactly what I was saying? Wasn't that exactly what my post was
about? But if you're happy being the one who was just saying it, feel free
to take all the credit in the world.
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 12, 2022

Sarcasm aside, you have your answer. There's no way to sugar coat it.

 

As web designer, it's incumbent upon YOU to do what's necessary to protect yourself and your client.  Either remove the fonts, exchange the fonts or take the site down until the font issues are resolved.  Hopefully, the site owner is willing to pay for their own fonts. If not, maybe you can substitute with comparable Google Fonts. 

 

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
fotoroeder
Inspiring
July 12, 2022

As far as I experienced, you should hand them a newly created "exported as html" site with their self hosted fonts, which they (or better you) use and install for them. For self hosted fonts you need to install those fonts on/into muse. If one needs to purchase that self hosted fonts, well … of course the client needs to pay. In my opinion the fonts cannot easily be changed in the already kind of published html. I do not know, wether Adobe can deny access to certain sites or not. I guess, if this happens once, those fonts are replaced then with "fallback" fonts.

 

Kind Regards,

Uwe

MediaGraphics
Known Participant
July 12, 2022

Yes. The horse is out of the gate already. My mistake. I was hoping for a way to control that access server side. Oh well.

 

BTW, you do a great job up here. I try to do similarly on the muse Facebook thread.

Best,

Lance