Using Gill Sans font in a logo

Odd that Agfa would send you back to Apple for their own font. But here's the Sonoma license text for fonts:

E. Fonts. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you may use the fonts included with the Apple Software to display and print content while running the Apple Software; however, you may only embed fonts in content if that is permitted by the embedding restrictions accompanying the font in question. These embedding restrictions can be found in the Font Book/Preview/Show Font Info panel.

That's pretty straightforward. You can use the fonts however you like as long as you only embed a subset of the fonts when they're being included in a document released outside of the direct use on your Mac. And since Gill Sans allows subset embedding, you're okay to use it.

If effect, you're doing the same thing as subsetting but turning the font into outlines. The only glyphs included are those in the converted text.

But I'd still wait for Apple's response. Font licensing is a can of worms.

It would be best to ask Apple Legal.

Legal - Contact - Rights and Permissions - Apple

Though in reality, the font belongs to Agfa Monotype and the real answer would come from them:

http://www.agfamonotype.com

It has these restrictions. One says:

⚠︎ Preview and print — documents embedding this font must be read-only

Digging deeper with FontLab, the legal area says this:

It looks like a conflicting statement, but what the means is you cannot embed the entire font. Only a subset.

Edit: Forgot to mention. The license area of the font's internal data is blank. That would lead me to believe you can use it for anything. A book, flyer, brochure, etc. Only that whatever you use it for the entire font is not included. But again, I would contact Agfa Monotype and ask.

I haven't looked at Adobe's license for fonts since they all went online. But the now defunct Font Folio sets on CD/DVD allowed the owner of the registration full use of all fonts. You're covered on your end. For a project sent to, oh say, a commercial print shop, if they didn't already have that font, then the onus would be on them to purchase their own legal copy so they could produce whatever it is you have them printing.

When I was in various full service printer and prepress shops (then as an independent for many years), they would have thousands of dollars worth of fonts on the server from various companies so there were almost no instances where when we got a project in, we didn't already have our own set of the same legally owned fonts. It's why I have well over 25,000 fonts I virtually never use for myself.

ludo_barbot wrote:

I have used Gill Sans Regular for some text in a logo. The font comes pre-installed on the Mac OS. I will outline the font and not re-distribute the actual font file. I was wondering if this is okay? I am not finding any clear information about this.

And how would this be an issue exactly..?

Personal use ?

ref: Fonts included with macOS Sonoma

Fonts included with macOS Sonoma - Apple Support