Customer Licence Adobe fonts – web project

[quirky_code8338]

I design a website for clients who work at a university. The website displays a project that shows research results and was created at the university.

I have understood that it is not enough to secure the licence for the project if I as the designer have an Adobe licence, but that my clients must have their own Adobe licence.

Now I'm wondering which of my clients needs to purchase an Adobe licence so that we can use Adobe fonts on the website. Does it have to be the publisher of the project? Or does it not matter, as long as someone involved in the project (employees) has an Adobe licence?
Or can the licence also run through the university as an institution - so without a specific person being assigned to it?

[Bobby Henderson]

Those aren't easy questions to answer without knowing the licensing details the university has with Adobe Creative Cloud (or if it has an educational CC license). Educational licenses can vary. Some have access to all type families hosted at Adobe Fonts while others get a more limited selection.

Generally speaking, anyone editing the visual design of the web site would need access to Adobe's applications and Adobe Fonts. A person writing copy for documents posted on the web site may not need CC access; someone else can copy the text and flow it into the web site. It's even possible to edit the code without needing an app like Dreamweaver. It just depends on what each person is doing.

If one or more of the type families in use are important to the university's branding, it might be a good idea to purchase licenses of those fonts.

[Tarun Saini]

Hi @quirky_code8338,

Welcome to the community! I'd like to inform you that if the website designer’s clients, who are employees of a university, are creating the websites as part of their job, then the university itself is considered ‘the client’ and will need the appropriate license. Any representative of the university holding that license can then own the web projects.”

Let us know if that helps.

Regards,

Tarun