A note before the legal stuff

A license is a legal agreement made to protect us, not to punish you. We don't like complicated legal stuff either, so we want ours to be simple and clear.

Font licensing used to be comparatively straightforward: fonts were installed on computers and used to make printed or static work. Today, fonts can also be embedded in websites, apps, cloud services, software, and other digital products, while the work made with them can be distributed or broadcast at a much larger scale. Licensing has evolved alongside these uses, but it has also become increasingly complicated.

One way foundries have tried to simplify this is by offering broader licenses based on the size of the person or organisation using the fonts, rather than charging separately for every kind of use. We like the simplicity of that approach. At the same time, conventional Desktop, Web, and App licensing is familiar and still makes sense for many customers. We don't think you should be forced into one system.

So, we offer both:

À la carte — license only what you need: Desktop, Web, and/or App.

All-inclusive Company License — one broad license for the named person or organisation, with the license tier based on its size.

Our basic principle is simple: using our fonts to make things is different from giving the fonts to other people to use. We want to be permissive about the first and careful about the second.

This general license is intended for regular individual and small-to-medium organisational use. If your use is unusually large, involves redistribution, lets your customers use the fonts themselves, or simply does not fit clearly here, talk to us. We'd rather work out something sensible with you than make this agreement complicated for everyone.

The terms below are the legal agreement.

1. The license

This End User License Agreement (“Agreement”) is between MARSNEV, trading as Marsnev & Co., registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce under KVK number 42164038 (“Marsnev”), and the person or organisation identified as the Licensee on the applicable order, invoice, or license certificate.

“Font Software” means the digital font files supplied by Marsnev, including static and variable fonts.

Upon obtaining a valid license, Marsnev grants the Licensee a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to use the Font Software according to the license stated on the applicable order or license certificate.

The Font Software is licensed, not sold. All intellectual-property rights in the Font Software and typeface design remain with Marsnev and/or the relevant rights holders.

The license belongs to the named Licensee and may not be transferred or assigned to another person or legal entity without Marsnev's prior written permission.

2. À la carte licenses

2.1 Desktop License

A Desktop License permits the Font Software to be installed and used by no more than the number of Users stated in the license certificate.

A User is one natural person permitted to install and use the Font Software. Each person counts as one User regardless of the number of devices reasonably used by that person.

Where the Font Software is installed on a shared computer, server, or other shared system, each person who is permitted to access and use the Font Software counts as a User.

The Font Software may be used to create finished works, including print, publications, logos, branding, packaging, merchandise, advertising, social-media content, presentations, images, PDFs, and rendered audiovisual works.

Finished works may be reproduced, published, distributed, displayed, transmitted, or sold without additional licensing, provided that they do not give their recipients practical access to the Font Software itself.

The Font Software may be embedded in PDFs and similar fixed documents where reasonably necessary, provided that recipients cannot extract and independently use it.

Use in an audiovisual production with a total production budget of €50,000 or more requires a Broadcast Addendum. A Broadcast Addendum extends an existing Desktop License and does not constitute a standalone license.

2.2 Web License

A Web License permits the Font Software to be embedded and served on the websites covered by the license certificate, within the applicable metric stated there.

The Licensee may self-host, subset, and make reasonable technical adaptations necessary for web deployment.

The Font Software must be reasonably protected against unauthorised access and may not be made available to website visitors for independent use.

2.3 App License

An App License permits the Font Software to be embedded in the applications or software covered by the license certificate, within the applicable metric stated there.

The Font Software must be reasonably protected against extraction and independent use.

An App License does not permit use in products or services that allow customers or other third parties to use the Font Software to create or customise their own content. Such use requires a separate written license.

3. Company License

A Company License permits the named Licensee to use the Font Software broadly on its own behalf.

This includes Desktop, Web, App, print, publications, branding, logos, packaging, merchandise, advertising, social media, presentations, digital publications, film, video, broadcasting, and comparable uses.

A Company License is not subject to separate limits on Desktop Users, web traffic, app users, audience size, or production budget unless expressly stated in the license certificate.

For organisational Licensees, annual revenue above €100 million at the time of purchase requires a custom or Enterprise License. If the Licensee later exceeds this amount, no upgrade is required for an existing perpetual license.

The Licensee may provide the Font Software to designers, agencies, developers, printers, production companies, and other service providers where necessary for work solely on behalf of the Licensee. Such service providers may use the Font Software only for that work and must delete it when their work for the Licensee ends.

A Company License does not automatically extend to parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, or other legally separate entities.

A Company License does not permit:

• sale, sublicensing, or redistribution of the Font Software;
• making the Font Software available for customers or the public to use;
• font-as-a-service or similar services;
• user-controlled design, template, or typesetting services using the Font Software; or
• OEM or comparable redistribution.

These uses require a separate written license.

4. Technical use and modifications

The Licensee may make backup copies and reasonable technical adaptations necessary for a permitted use, including subsetting, permitted format preparation, and converting text to outlines.

The Licensee may not modify the typeface or Font Software to create a new or derivative font, or distribute any original or modified Font Software.

Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement, the Licensee may not sell, rent, lend, sublicense, share, publish, upload to a public repository, or otherwise redistribute the Font Software.

5. Client work

A Licensee may use the Font Software to create finished works for clients within the scope of its license and may deliver those finished works to the client.

This does not give the client permission to install or independently use the Font Software.

Third parties working under a Company License are governed by Section 3.

6. Breach and termination

If the Licensee materially breaches this Agreement, Marsnev may require the Licensee to remedy the breach within a reasonable period.

If the breach is not remedied, Marsnev may terminate the license. Deliberate unauthorised sale, sublicensing, or redistribution of the Font Software may result in immediate termination.

Upon termination, the Licensee must stop using and delete the Font Software.

Termination does not prevent continued use or distribution of finished works lawfully created before termination, unless that continued use itself violates applicable law.

7. Additional agreements and updates

A license certificate, addendum, Enterprise License, or other written agreement may grant additional or different rights.

Where such a specific written agreement conflicts with this Agreement, the specific agreement takes precedence for the matters it covers.

Marsnev may publish updated versions of this Agreement from time to time. New licenses are governed by the version in effect when the license is obtained.

An update does not reduce or change rights already granted under an earlier version of this Agreement unless the Licensee expressly agrees otherwise or a change is required by applicable law.

Marsnev may choose to extend more permissive terms from a later version of this Agreement to licenses obtained under an earlier version.

8. Governing law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Netherlands.

Subject to mandatory applicable law, disputes arising from this Agreement shall be submitted to the competent courts in the Netherlands.

Nothing in this Agreement limits mandatory rights that cannot legally be excluded.

If any provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect.

MARSNEV, trading as Marsnev & Co. KVK 42164038 The Netherlands