Much obliged for the info, Meta.

I do know how to modify the font, and admittedly it wasn't my first choice to do it, but considering I've looked damn near EVERYWHERE for the owner, I'm thinking it's my next step. I agree that this is most likely a modified font - I've found a couple that look like the base letters before the flourishes were added.

Re: limited embedding, I've been able to use it in PhotoShop, so it's not just limited to Word.

Still, at least now I know a bit more than I did before, and God knows this is rapidly starting to look like I've done MORE than my due diligence in trying to play by the rules.

Thanks again!

Looks a lot like Castellar, though a couple of the letters are slightly different.

I am interested in using the font Starstruck in a commercial project. However, *nowhere* have I been able to find licensing information for the font (downloads only include the font itself, no Notepad or other licensing info). The closest I can find is that it is a "restricted" license (not sure what that means) and its embeddability is also "restricted". And unfortunately, nowhere can I find who actually created the damn thing. (The name "Daphne Dampener" is associated with the font on another site, but a Google search more commonly associates that name with a different font using the same name.)

As far as I can tell, my options (in order of preference) are:

1) Find the original creator and license the font for commercial use
2) Find a similar font that is either clearly free for both personal AND commercial use, or at least provides clear licensing info
3) Modify the original font enough that it is "distinct enough" to qualify as its own font (for example, modifying the lowercase letters, as the original font uses identical characters for both upper- and lowercase).
4) Use the original and hope for the best (this really isn't much of an option, but...)

If anyone here can help, I would greatly appreciate it.

(More details on this quest of mine are available here: http://samurai-ko.tumblr.com/post/60372188860/in-search-of-a-fonts-creator-please-help-tumblr