I am developing a commercial project that requires specific use of the Univers font. Is it possible for this to be added to ShapeDiver as it is a free font? Thanks
Please send a link to the font.
I suppose you are planning to create geometry based on the font? Typically, it is more stable and faster to internalize the curves representing the font’s characters in the Grasshopper model.
Thanks. A link to the font download can be found here:Univers Font Download
If the text is a value to be input by the user and applied to the model (as in custom engraving on a ring), does internalizing the geometry mean providing all the letter, number and character combinations with kerning? Is there a more direct way to internalize the curves?
Many thanks for sharing the link. The license says Free For Personal Use, which prevents us from deploying the font on our shared systems.
Yes, if you internalize the geometry of individual characters, you would need to take care of the spacing between characters using some logic in the Grasshopper model.
I am sorry I did not understand what you meant, please explain.
@gsims this will be useful in case you go for internalizing the characters: Error in the font - #4 by snabela
We use Univers a lot, too. Univers is NOT a free font. Any website that has it as a free font is using an illegal copy.
Univers is owned by Linotype and you need a license for it, even for personal use. To be fair nobody will ever check if you have a license if you only use it personally. If you want to use it anywhere else for any kind of business, even if you are just freelancing or if its just for a personal project, you better get a license.
The complete family costs just over 360 Euros for a desktop license, meaning you can use it on your computer to create any kind of design, except for the Web. For the Web you have to get an additional license for 329 Euros.
A lot of these “free fonts” websites will have either just straight up copies of paid fonts, sometimes they will have fonts that are called something slightly different. Often the fonts they offer have limited character sets or are missing some of the features of a bought font set. Yes, fonts also get updated.
If you want to use a proper free font, check out Google Fonts. They have some really good fonts and will always link to the source of the font - usually on GitHub. One of those I really like is IBM Plex Sans (IBM Plex Sans - Google Fonts), which specifically states in it’s license that it is free to use for any project.
That said if you want to use a font for your business or client, it will usually stay around for a very long time. Investing in good quality fonts will always pay off. You don’t just have to support the big players like Linotype. There are tons of really good and small Font Foundries around, who deserve to be supported!
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