Choose your font license

Most fonts ship with the wrong license, or none, because picking one means reading six legal documents first. Skip that. Answer a few plain questions about how you want your font used, and this picker names the license that matches, with the text to put in your download.

Illustration of a type designer's desk: specimen sheets with a giant Aa, a fan of license documents in slate blue shades, a fountain pen, a stamp and an ink pad

Guidance, not legal advice. If a client contract or real money rides on the choice, a lawyer beats a flowchart. New to the vocabulary? Font licensing, explained covers the terms first.