Luminari Font free for commercial Use?

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Luminari Font free for commercial Use?

Hi All,

I am sorry to bother you, but I can not seem to get a clean answer on this, and need your help desperately...

I was asked to design a logo round a font called Luminari.tff, I since found out that I got this font on my computer on the Yosemite upgrade. Since making the logo my client said that they seen the font for sale on download font site and has asked me to check if I am still ok to use it in his designs. I edited the font slightly, adding kicks and swirls and he plans to use the font as his logo on business card, leaflets, shop front, signs etc is this ok please?

I found a discussion by Kurt Lang and got the info from my computer its:

Luminari Regular

PostScript name Luminari-Regular

Full name Luminari

Family Luminari

Style Regular

Kind OpenType TrueType

Language Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Chiga, Congo Swahili, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gusii, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luo, Luyia, Macedonian, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Russian, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Tongan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Vunjo, Welsh, Yoruba, Zulu

Script Cyrillic, Greek, Latin

Version 9.0d2e1

Location /Library/Fonts/Luminari.ttf

Unique name Luminari; 9.0d2e1; 2013-08-01

Manufacturer Canada Type

Designer Philip Bouwsma

Trademark Luminari is a trade mark of Canada Type.

Enabled Yes

Duplicate No

Copy protected No

Glyph count 1,161

Please let me know if I am ok to use this fonts for the things listed above, I wasn't aware that some fonts has licences with them if you got them free with a mac, sorry,

and thank you, you'd be helping me a lot,

Moonmagicstar

Posted on Jul 24, 2015 11:05 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 24, 2015 11:10 AM in response to Moonmagicstar

Contact the copyright holder: https://www.myfonts.com/person/Philip_Bouwsma/

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Answer 2

Jul 24, 2015 1:08 PM in response to Moonmagicstar

The top two, and you will need to find out what the Enabled usage restrictions are. Which takes me back to my first recommendation. Contact the copyright holder. Unless you like the possibility of getting your self and your client sued.

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Answer 3

Jul 24, 2015 11:58 AM in response to Moonmagicstar

The font maker has provided it to Apple. If there is in fact no restriction on it for commercial use, it would not be in his best interest to tell you other wise. Odds are there isn't a problem since it is released under an Open Font program. But, no one here is really in a position to clarify that for you with absolute certainty (and posting here alone will not qualify as due diligence if a legal issue arises).

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Answer 4

Jul 24, 2015 1:02 PM in response to Moonmagicstar

Fonts and commercial use

Please see this Link...What I don't understand is if this means I can or cannot use it for commercial use:

''When you say usage restrictions, which ones are they? Is it these:

Enabled Yes

Duplicate No

Copy protected No

Glyph count 268''

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Answer 5

Jul 24, 2015 1:03 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Fonts and commercial use

Please see this Link...What I don't understand is if this means I can or cannot use it for commercial use:

''When you say usage restrictions, which ones are they? Is it these:

Enabled Yes

Duplicate No

Copy protected No

Glyph count 268''

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Answer 6

Jul 24, 2015 1:30 PM in response to Moonmagicstar

Please, there is no need to be rude. I'm just a little one person business and I'm just trying to gather information. I was just hoping there was a way for me to check each font before designing with them on the Mac itself without having to contact every Mac Font provider is all, I have contacted this particular person as you suggested because I want to be thorough...

but I'm just wondering for the future or should I just stick to Adobe specific fonts for the future? as I usually do, as I'm assuming if they came with the Adobe Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator etc that these fonts are licensed for my kind of work? It's just that Luminari appeared in my Adobe Suite automatically.

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Answer 7

Jul 24, 2015 11:49 AM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Won't the copyright holder just say that you have too pay?

I thought if it was a free font from Apple that it was free to use? does the fact that its stated as OpenFont mean anything?

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Answer 8

Jul 24, 2015 12:01 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

I thought there was some way to find out in the description Apple provides, whether or not it is restricted?

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Answer 9

Jul 24, 2015 12:12 PM in response to Moonmagicstar

Not that I am aware of

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