Apple fonts licensing

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Apple fonts licensing

Hello
I have created a logo using the "chalkduster" font. This font is part of the Snow Leopard system fonts. Where do I purchase this font for licensing?

mac pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Mar 12, 2010 3:18 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 12, 2010 5:29 PM in response to fonty python

fonty python, welcome to Apple Discussions. (You have a unique name.)

You probably need to send a letter to Apple.

Apple Computer, Inc.
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014

 Cheers, Tom 😉

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Answer 2

TildeBee

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Mar 12, 2010 6:05 PM in response to fonty python

fonty --
Welcome to Apple Discussions!

(My name is Bee and I am a fontaholic . . . )

This question has been brought up before by conscientious designers like yourself,
and I believe that if a font comes as a System Font with a Mac OS, is it now in the
public domain. I usually pay close attention to all matter fontish, and I'm pretty
sure I'm correct. Stay tuned.

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Hardy Geer

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Mar 12, 2010 6:41 PM in response to TildeBee

Many years ago, when the Mac was new, I made a series of music fonts so that you could type a musical score in a word processor. Font Editor was the only font maker and it did not do kerning, so I used Fedit, a disk editor, to make zero width characters by editing the font file. Times have changed!

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TildeBee

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Mar 12, 2010 7:15 PM in response to Hardy Geer

Boy, Hardy . . .
I always thought you were a kindred spirit!
I remember, "Insert the Disk."
Music fonts. What a wonderful concept!

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Answer 5

Hardy Geer

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Mar 12, 2010 7:48 PM in response to TildeBee

It never went far. The ImagerWriter driver for the wide carriage ImageWritter made a mess out of things. Zero width strings would not print and that meant many notes in a cord would be deleted. Also I was using different font sizes for different note durations and the LaserWriter scaled from the largest point size which made a mess.

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