This is the agreement that comes with a True Brew typeface. It's written to be read, not to be survived. If anything here is unclear, email me and I'll answer in plain language — that answer counts.
You're buying the right to use the typeface. I keep the copyright in the design and the font software; you get a permanent, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to work with it.
The licence doesn't expire, and it isn't a subscription. Buy it once and use it for as long as you like, including on new projects years from now.
Up to 3 people may install and use the typeface, on as many of their own machines as they need. Use it for anything you make:
There is no separate “desktop”, “web”, “broadcast” or “merch” licence to buy on top. If you can make it, this covers it.
The same ladder applies to every typeface sold this way — today that is WOODY, Lady Mae, Playful Sans and OOZE. One purchase covers one typeface.
These are two different things, and only one of them is restricted. This trips people up more than anything else in font licensing, so it goes first.
Anything you set in the typeface is yours. Convert it to outlines. Stretch it, cut it apart, redraw a letter, weld two together, add a serif, build a logo out of it and register that logo as a trademark. Sell the result. None of this needs my permission, and none of it is “modifying the font”.
Altering letterforms in your own artwork is expressly permitted. That is what a display face is for.
The font software is the OTF, TTF, WOFF and WOFF2 files. You may not edit, re-name, re-format, add or remove characters, decompile, reverse-engineer, or otherwise alter those files, and you may not use them as the basis for a new typeface. Generating a subset for your own website is fine; producing a font is not.
The test: if the output is a picture, it’s yours. If the output is a font, it’s mine.
A “person” is someone who installs the font files or uses them directly to set type. People who merely see the work, receive a PDF, or visit a website you built do not count.
These are the things kept back at every price. Each one is available — just ask first.
Make anything you want with it. Don’t hand out the files, and don’t ship the font inside a product.
You are a designer. You bought the typeface. A client hires you. Here is exactly where the line sits.
That designer needs their own copy to keep working in it — they can’t inherit yours. The website you built keeps running either way. Send them to me and I’ll sort it out quickly.
That’s a real arrangement and it deserves real terms rather than a guess. Email me and we’ll write one that fits how you actually work.
Use the supplied WOFF and WOFF2 files on any website you or your clients operate. No page-view limit, no domain limit, no annual renewal.
A browser downloading the font to render your page is not a breach — that’s how webfonts work, and nothing in section 05 is intended to say otherwise. What you may not do is offer the file as a download, link to it as a font resource, serve it to sites you don’t operate, or bundle it into a template you distribute.
Please don’t deliberately make the files easy to lift — keep them in a normal fonts directory rather than in a public downloads folder — but you are not responsible for someone determined enough to dig one out of your CSS.
This covers websites you or your clients operate as part of design work you actually did. What it doesn’t cover is running the font as font infrastructure — serving it from your own font service, adding it to a library your clients draw from, or rolling it out across client accounts as a standing offering rather than as work you designed.
It does. There is no domain count, no site limit and no page-view meter here, and there never will be. This is about a different kind of operation, not a number of sites — and if you’re running that kind of operation you’ll know, because it looks like a service rather than a project. Email me and we’ll set it up properly.
Every True Brew typeface — WOODY, Lady Mae, Playful Sans and OOZE — is now sold this one way. There is no longer a Personal, Commercial, Extended or Unlimited tier on any of them.
This document applies to purchases made on or after its effective date. If you bought any typeface under the old four-tier structure, you are governed by the terms that came with your purchase at the time. Nothing here is imposed on you retroactively, and nothing here takes away a right you already paid for.
If the old terms are better for you in some particular way, keep them. If these are better, tell me and I’ll move you across at no cost. Either way you should not end up worse off because I changed how I sell things.
Tell me what you’re making. I’ll tell you honestly which option covers it — including if the cheaper one does. tomas@truebrewcreatives.com
If you describe what you’re making and I confirm in writing that it’s covered, that confirmation becomes part of your licence and I will stand behind it. I can’t later call you in breach for doing the thing I said was fine.
So that this stays a promise rather than a loophole: it covers the specific use you described, for the person or company that asked. It doesn’t change any other part of this agreement, doesn’t carry over to a different project, and doesn’t transfer to anyone else. If what you’re making changes materially from what you described, ask again — and I’ll answer again.
Ownership. True Brew Creatives retains copyright in the typeface designs and the font software. Nothing here transfers ownership.
Your work is yours. Anything you design using the typeface belongs to you. I claim no rights in it and no credit is required, though it’s always welcome.
If something goes wrong. If you breach these terms, I’ll normally contact you first and give you a reasonable opportunity to put it right. Most breaches are accidents — a file shared without thinking, a headcount that crept up — and I’d far rather fix it than fight about it. Deliberate redistribution, resale, sublicensing, piracy or other intentional misuse is a different thing, and may end this licence immediately.
No warranty beyond the fix. The fonts are provided as they are. My obligation is to correct faults in the files, as described in section 09.
Governing law. California, USA.