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Font licences

Every font on HeyMadeFonts is designed by the HeyMadeFonts Foundry and released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You may use the fonts for any purpose, including commercial work, and modify and redistribute them, provided the licence travels with them. Each family is built from a recorded revision of our source and its licence is checked automatically before it is published.

What is published

LicencePublished families
SIL Open Font License 1.12,253

0 families are held back because a check failed, for example a missing or mismatched licence file. Held-back families are never served or offered for download until the problem is fixed upstream or reviewed by us.

How we check a family

  1. The licence directory (ofl/) must match the licence declared in the family's metadata.
  2. The licence file must be present and contain the expected licence text. We record its SHA-256 checksum.
  3. Every font file must exist, be a regular file with a safe name, and carry a copyright notice.
  4. Reserved Font Names declared in the OFL text are recorded and shown on the font's page.
  5. The OS/2 embedding flags of each file are read. Fonts marked "restricted" are not offered for print/PDF use in HeyMadeIt.

What you get

  • Every font page links to the verbatim licence text and shows the copyright notices.
  • Download archives contain the font files, the licence file and a README with the copyright notice.
  • For the CSS API, files are converted to WOFF2 and split into Unicode ranges (subsets) so browsers download only the characters a page uses. All name records, including copyright and licence fields, are kept in every file.

Web subsets and Reserved Font Names

2,253 published OFL families declare Reserved Font Names. The OFL lets you use, study, modify and redistribute the fonts, including commercially, provided the licence travels with them. Modified versions may not use a Reserved Font Name. Converting to WOFF2 and splitting by Unicode range for web delivery keeps every glyph, outline and name record for the characters served, and does not change the design. This is the same delivery method other open font services use. Our reasoning is in our licence policy and was last reviewed on 9 November 2026. If you are the author of a font and disagree with how we serve it, contact us and we will act on it.

Fonts used on this website

This site is set in our own Kystgrotesk, Sandhavn and Morild Mono, served from our own server under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.