Garamond Font Licensing & EULA

Question

Hi there, I am thinking of using the "Adobe Garamond Font family" to create a PDF book that I will sell to the public. The font will be installed on my Macbook and I will use the app "Pages" to complete the drafting of the PDF document.  I am not sure which license I should purchase -- the "Desktop" one or the "Ebook" one?I saw some sellers who sell the "Desktop" option say that the Ebook usage "is included in the Desktop license." See, e.g., https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/adobe/adobe-garamond-pro.However, some other sellers sell a separate "Ebook" license and say that the license is for "eBook, eMagazine, eNewspaper, or interactive PDF." See, e.g., https://www.myfonts.com/collections/garamond-font-adobe?tab=licensing&queryId=5d2243a95c0e2d73163b5a2a635a1d12&index=universal_search_data&objectIDs=5417906002. The document that I will sell is going to be a .pdf document which is not interactive. My assumption is that the "Desktop" license is good for the above-mentioned purpose but I wanted to seek clarification. Thank you!

Imaginerie · Answer

**You posted in the Adobe font forum, so I am just assuming you are talking about fonts found on Adobe fonts.

If you are talking about fonts in general, then your post belongs to the "type and typography" forum.
If you need me to move it, not a worry, just ask 🙂 **

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You don't purchase the fonts on Adobe fonts, you licence them on a "sync" basis. Some usages needs a special licence and some just can make do with the standard licence you get when you pay your Creative Cloud sub

This document is the only one you should take into account if you use the font from Adobe Font:
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/fonts/using/font-licensing.html#act-pdf

As you see, you can use the standard licence for set printed books and epubs as well as PDFs. As long as the fonts aren't accessible by the reader to be saved on their computer.
That would be the case explained here:

To be able to use the fonts if you stop having a creative cloud subscription, you'll need to purchase the perpetual licences

These are the Garamond fonts that you can sync on Adobe Fonts. There are many more versions of Garamond around, including a type 1 version that is still around on some computers and that is no longer supported by Adobe software (and other ones too) anymore.

All the other Garamond you can find elsewhere (fonts.com etc) have to be purchased separately for the particular usage you intend to make.

In short 🙂
Adobe is syncing fonts but you don't "own" the licence in perpetuity, and buying a licence elsewhere will grant you the right to use it for the licence type you bought.

It's an old typeface and I guess the design is a bit in the public domain now, so all these reworks are evolution of the same base that was invented 400 years ago, and you even have free versions of it (EB Garamond). You just need to be careful, as some can have "funky" characters, particularly when set in italics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamond

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