I want to use the "Voodoo Eye" font by Darren O'Hehir ( https://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=voodoo+eye ) for my business, but I am not sure if it's actually free for commercial use despite what it claims.
It says it's 100% Free, but when I go to the author's website, it says "Voodoo Eye. A typography design that later evolved into a fashion & art brand."
Yet after I scrolled down the page, there in red it links straight back to the DAFont page. ( https://www.darrenohehir.com/voodoo-eye )
I have emailed, and private messaged both of the author's instagram pages and have not gotten a response.
I already spent money on items for my brand with that font, but have not sold anything. I was honestly under the impression that it was free for commercial use but now I am not so sure.
Please help!

It's always better to have a response from the designer, but 100% Free means that you're allowed to use it for commercial purpose.
"Voodoo Eye. A typography design that later evolved into a fashion & art brand." is just a catchphrase.

Thank you. I really hope the author get's back to me just to be extra sure. ; - ;

@smolstar:

If you have a font editor, the licensing terms are usually set internally in the Font Info data. If the font file itself says that commercial use is free, you don't NEED to receive e-mail confirmation from the author. Some font designers make free fonts to give back to the design community for free fonts made by other designers. The concept of trying to make money from fonts that are often of amateur quality is relatively new; some people have a delusion that if 500,000 people download their font for free from dafont, they could have sold 500,000 commercial use licenses, if they had marketed their font differently. It doesn't work that way!

100% free fonts are often not 'designed' by the font author; an alphabet design is found in some print source, and someone creates a digital version. Fonts that are conceived, designed and executed by the font author usually have a fee for commercial use.

These are not 'hard and fast' rules, but they are true in many cases.

For Dieter Steffmann's fonts, I think the only requirement before you could use his fonts commercially was to ask politely on his website.

With a handful of exceptions, type designers hosted by dafont are not becoming wealthy from their typography work. Many of us make some money, but no one should expect to be able to buy an automobile or pay for their college education with something they made on a rainy afternoon. There are a lot of people who collect fonts as a hobby, and download from dafont because the download is free. Often they never get around to actually opening the .zip file, or if the do, the font is never installed. Download statistics are deceptive. In many cases, people download the same font .zip multiple times, because they can't remember if they already have it or not.