horst Posted November 16, 2020 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!
Klenkes Posted November 16, 2020 Posted November 16, 2020 Seems to be part of Win-10, inclusive Corbel Light. An Online converter should provide woff and eot. Or not?
horst Posted November 16, 2020 Author 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.
Klenkes Posted November 16, 2020 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
fliwire Posted November 16, 2020 Posted November 16, 2020 https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito+Sans looks similar: 2
modifiedcontent Posted November 16, 2020 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.
millipedia Posted November 17, 2020 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
horst Posted November 17, 2020 Author 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! ?
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