Protecting a font?

Hello again.

It is possible to use Fontself Maker to open a font that was created with it. If I want to sell one of my fonts, I do not want it to be opened with Fontself. For black fonts, I can change the font to .ttf (and back again), then you cannot open it.

But how can I do that with a color font? Is there another file format to transform back and forth or another trick to protect a font from opening?

Thanks for reading and stay healthy

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There is currently no solution to prevent any font file from being editable by any font editor, even TTF files.

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Regarding the tip from @urs7000 for “protecting” font files. I renamed the font extensions to .ttf, then reverting it back again to .otf and it had no effect whatsoever. I could still open it in Fontself.

Maybe it’s a MacOS thing?

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Thanks for your message. I will check it tomorrow.

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@franz Speaking of protection, is there a way to protect (at least give a warning when embedding) the demo font?

For example, when saving “Birds of Paradise” demo font on AI there is a warning like this…

I’ve found a useful information, but haven’t found a way to change the fsType values. I also found this, but the extension file won’t run (just blink and disappear).

ttfpatch_screenphoto

Maybe some of you have experience with this? Please advice…

you can try to use fontforge, see https://fontforge.org, its free

more infos about tstype can you fiind here:
https://fontforge.org/docs/search.html?q=fstype

Hello @urs7000, tq for the suggestion :slight_smile:
I try and test it… unfortunately after installing it I still haven’t managed to make the font the way I want it to be #hikz


The font can still be embedded in PDF. I don’t understand which setting is wrong.