in an ideal world, you're right, everyone is aware of font license and fair use, all fonts are tagged with the right label, everything shine in the blue blue sky. The fact is some authors don't even KNOW these things because they are often amateurs or kids doing it for fun.

Dafont is a mainstream font website, one of the first available on the web. It have always respected the law, licenses and authors. Every time a legal infrigement regarding a font is known, dafont removes it immediately (you can't say that for every font related websites...) this is a fact. A basic check is done while submitting a font but it's impossible to verify every fonts one by one afterwards or contact authors to educate them... Imagine an author changed the license of his font, how dafont could be aware of that if he did not modify it himself? If you feel in the mood to contact the authors of the 12 576 fonts of dafont (once a week to be sure and always up to date), then go ahead. I don't. And i believe the admin of dafont neither.

The only thing we can do is to force authors to publish their license, but once again there are many amateurs and kids doing this and they don't care / are not aware of the legal stuffs to put in it. This is not a professionnal website, this is a mainstream one. Visitors are kids, grandpa, pro or amateurs. If you're a kid, a grandpa or an amateur, chances are you'll never be persued because you made the flyer for Aunty Mary's birthday. If you're a professionnal selling your work you MUST be aware of the law and take your responsabilities. If you want to use a font commercialy you have to check from the author if you have the legal rights to do so. Make a search and note the results to prouve you have tried to contact him, this can be legally take in consideration. Dafont can't take the responsability for the author or the user.

I agree with you, we need to educate the lambda user, that's what we're trying to do here, in this forum. We are repeating the same things again and again... You can join us in our endless crusade, you're very welcome! But if you think you found another website that fully suits your needs, good for you.

PS: English is not my first language and the abuse of question marks in your previous message skewed my perception of the general tone of your thinking.

Since 2005 the author determine the "status", so it's 100% reliable unless it says "First seen on DaFont: before 2005". This website doesn't make the fonts but just provide a way to distribute them, it's the authors'duty to update their infos.
If you find some incoherence between what is stated on the page and what it should be, feel free to contact the adminsitrator, he'll probably update the site with the new informations.
If this is just untolerable for you to risk being accused of stealing someone's work, go BUY your fonts and stop complaining!

Thank you for the example.
The "free" mention on the right is not enough ?



there are several licenses :
- Free
- Free for personnal use
- Shareware
- Demo
- Public Domain Gnu/GPL
- Donationware

I don't understand what you really need from dafont...

Usually the terms of license is specified on Dafont. Could you give us a concrete example of a font lacking license information ?

You need THIS font so buy THIS font. Plain and simple

the font says "free" however this is an old font and i don't see how to contact the author...
the author is Stephen Deken and his site is down since 2002.
there is a website http://stephendeken.net/ but i don't know if it's the same person behind.
there's also a twitter and a linkedin account : http://twitter.com/#!/sdeken http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephendeken. Here again i cannot say if it's the same person.
Try all this leads to contact him.

Another solution is to vectorize your text in Illustrator. This will work if you don't have much amount of text (such as a business card) but will be painful for plain texts blocks as text editing will be impossible once vectorized.
So save a backup copy of your business card for later use if you need to change something and right click the text, select vectorize font form the contextual menu.

i have a question too : how do i make salami ?

y'à ça aussi : http://www.bloggif.com/
(au passage, c'est le premier résultat quand on tape "créer gif animé" dans google...)

essayes là : http://kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas/
et là : http://www.kevinandamanda.com/fonts/freescrapbookfonts/
dans les typos payantes, j'ai une réelle affection pour la Gizmo : http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fw-g-type/gizmo/

http://www.dafont.com/fr/base-05.font

Looks a bit like handel gothic

Read the FAQ : http://www.dafont.com/faq.php#win

Les logiciels de base sur osx ou windows sont très très limités et posent souvent problème (une petite incompatibilité avec un typo et c'est la fête à la maison !). Je te recommande vivement l'utilisation d'un logiciel tiers pour gérer tes polices, ils feront toujours mieux que le logiciel de base...

Utiliser un gestionnaire de police peux éviter ce genre de problème. Il y a une liste de ces logiciels sur dafont : http://www.dafont.com/fr/soft.php#1
à tester...

The font update is late (3 months to catch up) so your font will propbably appear in a next update. Fonts will be updated more often from now, you'll propably see it in the next few days.
Nice font, btw !

utilise un logiciel de gestion des police comme suitcase fusion ou lynotype font xplorer par exemple.

CMB

ah oui j'avais oublié la tahoma dans les polices "web safe"