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Oh geez, now I'm confused about what is a font This video helped me see the difference between a typeface and a font: A typeface is a family of fonts, and a font is a member of that family. Anyone confirm this? I read that a font was a program some time ago and it made sense so I stuck with it. A program meaning a block of programming code that generates the typeface, or what you see on the screen. So, going from that definition to this new definition has got me confused... Though the difference doesn't really matter in this case since I know fonts can be copyrighted (which now doesn't make sense), but it'd still be nice to know. Thanks cc4, so no not all fonts displayed are commercial-friendly, alright. I wish for a 'custom font filter' then, so I can only see the commercial-friendly fonts since it's kind of frustrating having to scroll through and dig around all those fonts to get the ones I'm going to use. Please .NET team!

Thanks toe_head, yeah I understand that typefaces can't be copyrighted however the fonts themselves can be. Just to be clear, Fonts and Typefaces aren't the same, font is a program that generates the display of the typeface and the typeface is what's generated. "So the fact that a font program creates something that can’t be copyrighted (a typeface) does not mean the font program itself cannot be copyrighted." Source: Emily Evans, Law Student, http://glarts.org/font-and-typeface-legal-tip-sheet/ Typeface can't be copyrighted, fonts can be, but the question is not if they're copyrighted, it's if whether or not the fonts shown in Paint.NET's dropdown is legal for commercial use.

Recently I read somewhere that not all fonts are okay to use for commercial use since the font (program) can be copyrighted. Seems fair, a font is a program which is someone's work that can be copyright protected. I have only downloaded fonts from google.com/fonts, which I know to be okay for commercial use, but then there are fonts that I haven't downloaded from google.com/fonts, which are the many that show from Paint.NET's dropdown font menu. Are all these fonts that show in the dropdown legal for commercial use? Can I assume the same for any program? That if I haven't downloaded fonts from any site other than okay-sites like google.com/fonts, any font that shows from a dropdown menu in a program is okay for commercial use? Maybe not any program, but how about for Sony Movie Studio Platinum 13? That's the only other program I use that uses fonts. Thanks everyone.