Hello,

I am willing to use Dakota Regular font on my website. http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/14800
But the original .ttf is corrupted and each font download service offers the same file.
When using webfont generator http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator it says the font is corrupted, and also the font does not work in any browser but I.E. because .tff is corrupt.

It is a 18 y/o font. Please give me some advice on what should I do...

Thank you.

Dakota lives under several names out there and, indeed, most of the ones out there that are named Dakota are crippled. But not all. I posted a corrected version at another friendly font site some three and a half years ago. Happy hunting

Searched 22 different font sites. 15 of them did not contain Dakota, 6 of them had the corrupt version, 1 was not downloadable.
Scanned 110 pages of your posts trying to figure out the "friendly font site" you have mentioned.
Tried to find the font in the websites which they used it in their logo and etc.

Result: Fail...

However, I managed to find it under another name (FULTONS HAND) as you mentioned.

Thank you.

Dakota (real name Handwriting - Dakota) is Copyright © 1995 vLetter.com. Later © 2001 Apple Computer, re-encoded so that accented characters conform to Unicode. Was HDU. Renamed BACK to Handwriting-Dakota. It was a Macintosh system font. With the conversions to ttf and otf some errors occurred, mainly intersecting coordinates.

Add:
Also the WSI's Fultonshand and Ly's media's LEHN107 (which are both copies of Expert Software's 1996 copy of Handwriting - Dakota) have those errors.

The Dakota font is owned by vLetter, inc. and licensed to Apple Computer non-exclusively.

All other copies including renames are illegal and stolen from us. Expert Software, EMSI, and Softkey even stole an entire CD of 300 handwriting fonts from us in the mid-1990's, renamed the fonts and sold them as theirs. Tough to make a living as a font designer back then!

We've updated it with accents and diacriticals. You can download the latest Dakota font from us, direct from the source at:
http://www.vletter.com/downloads/dakota-font-download-free.html

Thank you. But, if you had incorporated the designer info in the orifinal Dakota/Handwriting font in the first place all this would never have happened. Yes I know about the WSI, Lehn and other clones but it was impossible to point at the real designer. So next time when you do something put the proper info in the font's header. OK?

Would the updated version be version 1.0d1, FontForge 1.0 : HDU : 25-2-2006, with this copyright notice?
Copyright © 1995 vLetter.com, Inc., © 2001 Apple Computer, Inc. Re-encoded so that accented characters conform to Unicode. Was HDU. Renamed BACK to Handwriting-Dakota

Michael Yanega says that WSI took those fonts from the ClickArt Handwritten Fonts CD: http://bowfinprintworks.com/ListPages/HWFontAliases.html
Is that the CD you are talking about?

People who steal fonts, like Michael Charness at Weatherly Systems, usually REMOVE anything identifying the original designer and ADD their own. They then claim that they own the copyright. Charness stole our entire collection, renamed them, and made big bucks in the 90's selling them to Expert Software, EMSI, and Softkey as if the fonts were his.
http://www.sanskritweb.net/forgers/wsi.pdf

We licensed 300 fonts to ClickArt for their CD, but we also sold our own collection. The ClickArt collection is pre-unicode. We're re-issuing upgraded Unicode versions of those fonts - and more - through our Handwriting Font of the Day program, and are also available in our archive.
http://www.vletter.com/category/hfotd/

A slightly updated version of Dakota is in the Apple Computer collection, as is Schoolhouse Print A and Schoolhouse Cursive B, which are also vLetter fonts.

The most current Dakota is on our site.