Fair Font License

Your licensor is Thierry Charbonnel, publishing as AP.CX, with foundry ID apcx. AP.CX, we, and us refer to this licensor. You means the person or organization named as license holder. A purchaser acting for an organization must have authority to do so; an agency may buy on behalf of a named client.

We grant a non-exclusive, non-transferable license after payment or our written permission. A free discount code changes the price, not the scope. We present these terms before purchase or permission; acceptance is recorded through checkout or a written agreement. A website visit alone does not accept this agreement.

The fonts, tier, and any special offer are those identified in the order. Keep your confirmation and a copy of the terms supplied with it. Later website changes do not reduce an existing license. For a conflict, mandatory law comes first, then a separate written agreement with us, then specific product promises accepted at purchase, then these terms and the sales policy supplied at purchase. Summaries explain the agreement and do not cancel an express permission.

Student / Teacher / Nonprofit covers personal non-commercial work, study, teaching, and a nonprofit organization’s own projects. A paid designer may use this tier solely for work commissioned by a nonprofit; it does not cover the designer’s other commercial work. Student or teacher status alone does not cover paid commercial client work. Uses reserved for Scale or Custom Scale require that tier or our written permission, including for nonprofit projects.

Creator covers ordinary professional and client work within the print and web limits below. Small studio and small business describe typical buyers; they are not extra headcount limits. Scale adds unlimited print and web volume, app and product embedding, SaaS interfaces, broadcast, streaming, and company-wide deployment across teams or offices.

A large brand system means a shared identity deployed across multiple brands or countries; a major campaign means coordinated national or international advertising. These use Scale. An ordinary logo, local campaign, or standalone client project stays within Creator when it meets the other limits. A client’s size alone does not turn delivery of static artwork into enterprise deployment.

Custom Scale covers supplying reusable font files to others as part of an OEM bundle, font library, template library, design platform, or similar redistribution arrangement. Ordinary web delivery and the app embedding expressly allowed below do not become Custom Scale merely because the font travels with the permitted product.

Creator includes up to 1 million printed items and 1 million website visitors in each 12-month period starting on your purchase date and its anniversaries. Count use of the licensed family across the license holder’s projects and websites, including client work made under that license. A printed item is one finished copy or physical product carrying the type, not each letter or page. For web use, count unique human visitors to each website over the period, then add the site totals; repeat page views and known bots do not count. Reasonable estimates are enough; you do not need to install analytics or send reports.

Scale has no standard print, visitor, installation, app, or website count limit for the named license holder; it does not grant standalone font redistribution. Buy the appropriate tier before a planned use outside your scope. If an honest estimate proves too low or unexpected growth crosses a Creator limit, contact us within 30 days of discovering it to arrange an upgrade. That correction period permits the existing use to continue while the upgrade is arranged; it does not authorize deliberately starting an excluded use.

Employees and contractors may install the font on the computers needed to work for the license holder. Printers and production suppliers may receive a temporary copy solely to complete that work. Cloud storage, hosting, build systems, and backups are allowed with access limited to people and services working for the license holder. You remain responsible for authorized access; suppliers must remove working copies when the job ends and may not reuse them for other customers.

Clients may keep, publish, and reproduce the finished artwork you deliver within the licensed scope, including outlined logos, images, print files, and embedded documents allowed below. That does not transfer your font license. A client that installs the font, hosts its own webfonts, or edits with the font files needs its own appropriate license, which you may purchase in its name. Temporary supplier access is not an independent client license.

All tiers include desktop design and self-hosted webfonts for their permitted uses. You may serve webfonts from your hosting provider or CDN to display your licensed websites. Browser downloads and caching needed for that display are permitted. Keep desktop files private and do not offer a public font download library or serve unrelated, unlicensed websites.

You may embed or subset the font in finished PDFs, EPUBs, and presentations, including publications sold commercially within your tier. Recipients may view and print them; recipients who need the font for their own editing need a license. Use available embedding and access protections reasonably; you do not have to guarantee that extraction is technically impossible.

Scale permits embedding inside your apps and products for their own text display, use in your SaaS interface, and ordinary product outputs such as invoices and reports. Updates and versions of those products are included. End users may read and enter text in the interface without a separate font license. The app must not expose the font as an installable system font or a reusable font service.

A customer design service that exposes the font as a design tool for creating and exporting customer artwork, publications, or editable templates needs a Custom Scale agreement. Ordinary SaaS interface text, invoices, and reports remain within Scale. Internal automated production for the license holder’s own projects is allowed within the applicable tier and output limits.

You may convert text to outlines and edit those shapes in logos and other artwork. You may subset, compress, or convert the delivered font files for a permitted workflow, retaining copyright notices where the format allows. Keep those technical copies under the same license and do not turn them into a competing or derivative font family. We support the files we supply, not errors introduced by your changes.

Redrawing the font software, extending its character set, or distributing a modified font requires our written permission. Rights to inspect or reverse-engineer software that cannot lawfully be excluded remain available. Technical embedding flags and application support can affect a workflow; these terms do not guarantee that every application will accept every permitted use.

Copyright and other rights in the font software remain with AP.CX or the identified rights holder. Your own artwork remains yours to the extent you own its other elements. All permissions to share, host, embed, and make technical copies described above are exceptions to the restrictions below.

• Do not sell, sublicense, transfer, or give away reusable font files without our written agreement.
• Do not publish source files, a public font download, or a font library for others to use independently.
• Do not remove ownership notices or claim to have designed the font.
• Do not use the font outside your purchased tier or agreed scope.

If a purchased font is defective or substantially fails to work as described, contact hello@ap.cx with your order reference, application and operating-system versions, and a short example. For reports within 30 days of purchase, we will assess the issue and repair the file, replace it, or refund the affected font. This service promise does not shorten any statutory claim period or limit remedies required by law.

Immediate delivery does not by itself remove a consumer’s right to withdraw. Where the law permits that right to end when a digital download begins, this requires your prior express consent to immediate supply, your acknowledgment that you will lose the right to withdraw, and the confirmation required by law. Otherwise, any applicable withdrawal right remains available. Defect remedies are separate from withdrawal.

Bug fixes and minor compatibility updates for the purchased major version are included for at least 12 months from purchase. This does not promise compatibility with every application or require new features. Any longer update duty required by law still applies.

Major new versions, additional styles, and substantial expansions may be paid upgrades unless the offer accepted at purchase includes them. An advertised beta-to-final update is included at no extra charge under the same license tier. Your license to the delivered version does not expire when the update period ends.

If a purchase is refunded in full and its license ends, delete the font files and stop new use, subject to rights preserved by law. An exchange or partial refund changes the scope only as agreed in writing. Tell us before relying on the font in a workflow you have not tested.

For a material breach that can be fixed, we will send notice describing the issue and allow 30 days to correct it. The license ends if the breach remains uncorrected after that period. We may terminate by notice immediately for deliberate unauthorized redistribution or a material breach that cannot be corrected. An unexpected volume increase handled under the growth provision is not an automatic termination.

After termination, stop new use and delete active font copies, including supplier copies under your control. Copies required by law and inaccessible routine backups may remain until their normal deletion, without further use. Finished work lawfully created and distributed before termination may remain in circulation; this does not authorize new production, continued web serving, or shipping new app copies. Terms protecting ownership, accrued claims, and mandatory rights continue to apply.

Except for our express promises and rights required by law, the font is supplied as-is. We do not promise every creative result or compatibility with every system. Where law permits, we are not liable for indirect losses, lost revenue, missed deadlines, reprint costs, or similar consequential losses, and our total liability for the affected font is limited to the amount you paid for it.

These limits do not exclude fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability or consumer remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded. Nothing in this agreement removes mandatory consumer rights, including rights concerning conformity, updates, withdrawal, or refunds.

This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of New York, United States, and applicable United States federal law, without applying conflict-of-laws rules that would select another jurisdiction’s law. This choice does not remove mandatory consumer protections that apply to you. Contact hello@ap.cx so we can try to resolve a dispute; doing so is not a prerequisite to a legal claim or statutory remedy. Courts with jurisdiction under applicable law may hear disputes, including any consumer forum the law protects. If one term is unenforceable, the rest continues to apply to the extent permitted by law.