Urgent: Can I use fonts that are pre-installed (shipped) with my macbook pro for commercial purposes?

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Urgent: Can I use fonts that are pre-installed (shipped) with my macbook pro for commercial purposes?

Where can I find license for the pre-installed fonts on macbook pro, specifically for helvetica or myriad pro? I use Mac's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for all my work, therefore, I would like to know whether or not I can use these fonts for commercial purposes, such as, in graphic design/logo, video editing, and documentation.

It's a bit urgent, a quick response will help a lot.

Appreciation in advance!

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Nov 20, 2016 3:01 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 20, 2016 5:02 AM in response to h.shoob

Of course you can. That's the whole point of OSX, everything that comes with it is licensed to you to use for whatever purpose you want. You don't own the rights to any of the components but you have the rights to use them. Even the screen saver images should you so choose.

The precise terms and conditions are attached to the fonts and viewable in Font Book > Info on each font:

SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR MAC OS X

F. 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.

Peter

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h.shoob Author

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Nov 21, 2016 2:41 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Thank you Peter.

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