SP version of the font
STAR full version with license
Do I need a license?
Can I hand it to my client?
Why is the price so low?
I found your font in a font catalogue. I am drawing a logo for a client and want to use it. Do I need to buy a license?
I bought the STAR full version from you and built a brand identity for my client with it. Can I hand the font over to them?
Why are your fonts so cheap? Studios sell theirs for thousands, sometimes tens of thousands. Something must be off here…
You do not. Your client, though, is well advised to: then nobody has to wonder what happens to the usage rights later. The free font does allow commercial use, but without legal warranties. You can buy the font in the name of the client you are drawing the logo for, and hand everything over together.
If the font was bought in your name, then no. A font is bought in the name of one person or one organization. The STAR full version file may not be passed on to third parties. The artwork made with it may — logos, flyers, business cards, covers and so on. If the client asks for the font file itself, you may give them the SP version of the font.
SP fonts are one author’s work, versatile within reason. They cover the usual jobs of branding, packaging, digital and print, but they can be less all-purpose than a studio’s flagship family with its maximal character set and years of polishing. If a font suits you, buy the STAR full version for your project without hesitation. That is direct support for the author.
The short version:
| Name | — |
|---|---|
| Copyright | © Pavljenko + design — all rights reserved, |
| Designer | Sasha Pavljenko |
| License | Private License |
| License URL | https://pavljenko.ru/blogs/legal/license |
| Legal | Rights arise on creation — Russian Civil Code, Part IV, art. 1259 |
A designer or content creator working for a third party — a client, say — may use the STAR full version, but may not pass the font file on to that third party.
For example: you bought yourself the STAR full version and used it on a flyer for your client. That is allowed. Handing the client the STAR full version file is not, under the License.
If the client needs this font for other materials of theirs, made by another designer, they should buy the STAR full version for themselves in this shop — or you can buy it for them a second time. To avoid the collision you may give the client the SP version of the font, or a link to download it from any catalogue.
You can buy the STAR full version and a license for it for your company, business or project, and pass that font file to third parties to do work with (a freelance designer, a printing house, a developer) — provided those third parties use the STAR full version only for your company, business or project.
Under the License you undertake to inform whoever you engage that the Font is protected by copyright and may not be used outside the work they do for you.
Yes. Under the License you have the right to use the Font on your own website and in your web application. If you want the STAR full version on someone else’s site — your client’s, for example — they have to buy a license, or you can buy it for them a second time. A STAR full version bought in your name may not be passed to a third party.
You also undertake to take reasonable steps against third parties downloading the Font file without permission: do not put the font file in a public repository, for one. It is worth converting the font to WOFF2 and printing the attribution «Copyright: © Pavljenko + design — all rights reserved, URL: pavljenko.ru» in the code. That tells third parties the Font was bought for one particular project.
Ask the author directly — the contacts are in the site menu. Rights to the STAR full version that are not written out in the License are considered not granted and stay with the author.
But any question can at least be discussed, and at best settled in your favor — you only have to ask it :)
No catch. It is simply a different approach to the product. A typeface is a design tool, and different jobs call for different levels of range, refinement and support. Large studios price in the work of a team, long testing across many scenarios, a very wide character set, more styles, localizations, legal counsel and support for large clients.
SP fonts are one author’s work, versatile within reason: they cover the usual jobs of branding, packaging, digital and print, but they can be less all-purpose than a studio’s flagship family with its maximal character set and years of polishing. The low price is deliberate — direct sales, minimal overheads and a wish to keep good tools affordable.
If a font suits you and you can see it in your project, buy the STAR full version without hesitation. The purchase goes straight into updates and new fonts.