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Anonymous
November 8, 2010
Question

Licensing font in iPhone App?

  • November 8, 2010
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Hello,

as you can read in the title I am currently developing an iPhone App. I purchased the Adobe CS5 Design Premium and already used it to create graphics.

My question is if I can use Myriad Pro in my App and if I need to purchase a new license.

The font will be encrypted in the iPhone App-file later and cannot be extracted. So it would fit "printable" and according to the font licensing-tables Myriad Pro is "editable".

But I am unsure so I wanted to ask here first.

Regards

Paul

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    Anonymous
    August 4, 2014

    Looks like there is a more recent thread covering the same topic. Same answer so far.

    Adobe fonts for commercial use? Need license?

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    Anonymous
    August 4, 2014

    I emailed Caleb Belohlavek (see https://forums.adobe.com/message/5184139), who is who I talked to earlier, on Feb 6, 2014, but did not hear back. I just emailed again today, and cc'd font-licensing@adobe.com too. Hopefully, I hear back.

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    combdn
    Participant
    March 8, 2013

    Hi.

    So what was the answer?

    Did you get the license? How much does it costs?

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    Anonymous
    March 8, 2013

    I did talk to someone. Adobe doesn't have a program yet to license fonts for app distribution, but they are working on one. I was told they hope to get things set up this year. Hopefully earlier, rather than later.

    I haven't heard anything so far, but it seems inevitable. Other font foundries are heading in that direction too.

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    combdn
    Participant
    March 8, 2013

    Thanks.

    FontShop already has such license. Check out their “Mobile” fonts.

    Will look forward for Adobe’s move.

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    Anonymous
    August 30, 2012

    Did you ever get an answer on this? I have the same question.

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    Thomas Phinney
    Inspiring
    August 30, 2012

    So, the answer is, yes you do need additional licensing to embed the font in an app and distribute it. The existing embedding permissions are for documents, rather than apps.

    For those fonts that Adobe owns all rights to, which include Myriad, they can license the fonts to you for app embedding. Contact Adobe, and if they don't know who to send you to, ask for your request to be forwarded to product management for Adobe Type. They'll know what to do.

    Cheers,

    T

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    Anonymous
    August 30, 2012

    Thank you for the clarification. A post in another thread seemed to imply the opposite.

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/432088

    I've called Adobe four times now and can't seem to find someone who can help. I haven't asked for product management though, so I'll give that a shot. The operator keeps telling me I have to ask for a specific person.

    Thanks again.

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