horst Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Hi, a client want to have the MS font Corbel Light for the website. I found the font Corbel at Micr*s*fts fonts.com, but not Corbel Light. Does anybody know where to get this, or a free alternative? But only for self hosting the files! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klenkes Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Seems to be part of Win-10, inclusive Corbel Light. An Online converter should provide woff and eot. Or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fliwire Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 https://www.wfonts.com/font/corbel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horst Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 1 hour ago, fliwire said: https://www.wfonts.com/font/corbel This is Corbel and not Corbel Light. ANd it is TrueType and not Webfonts (woff woff2). 2 hours ago, Klenkes said: Seems to be part of Win-10, inclusive Corbel Light. An Online converter should provide woff and eot. Or not? Yes it is part of Win10, but is it legal to use them in a website of a professional freelancer without a license from MS? A license for Corbel (Webfonts and usage with self hosting) can be bought at www.fonts.com, for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klenkes Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 13 minutes ago, horst said: Yes it is part of Win10, but is it legal to use them in a website of a professional freelancer without a license from MS? Oh, you are right! Then you would go to Microsoft jail, and during shower, if you drop the soap you might find out where the PowerPoints... ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fliwire Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito+Sans looks similar: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modifiedcontent Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 You can upload and generate webfonts here, but if you use copyrighted/premium fonts it could get you into trouble of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millipedia Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 It doesn't look as if Corbel Light is available as a legitimate webfont so honestly you should just explain that to your client. Since it does come with Windows 10 though then a lot of your website visitors will have it installed natively; So you could just use a font-stack with that at the top and then fall back to something similar for users who won't have it - Helvetica isn't a million miles away on a Mac. It'll involve a bit more testing and tweaking but then you could avoid having to load a web font at all (hooray). Just looking at Google Fonts then as @fliwire says Nunito isn't bad or Catamaran looks fairly close too. And just in case you aren't aware of it, the Google Webfonts Helper https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts is very handy for grabbing Google Fonts for local hosting. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horst Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 2 hours ago, millipedia said: Since it does come with Windows 10 though then a lot of your website visitors will have it installed natively; So you could just use a font-stack with that at the top and then fall back to something similar for users who won't have it - Helvetica isn't a million miles away on a Mac. It'll involve a bit more testing and tweaking but then you could avoid having to load a web font at all (hooray). Thats an interesting approach! Thanks. ? And there is this tool that can help a lot by finding alternative fonts for the stack:https://font-match.netlify.app/ @all: Many thanks for the help and thoughts! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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