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Hello, I want to clarify something about the license. I see that you're explicitly allowing for bundling the fonts within games in other comments, so I'll spare asking about that.

About the not allowing your application (in this case a game) to replicate the fonts' function, does it restrict plain text input such as characters' name?

How about a more complicated usage, such as making a book like in Minecraft, or making t-shirt/"decal" design like in Animal Crossing? (Assume you can put custom text on those decals, regardless of how wise that'd be). Does it matter if my game ships with an EULA governing the usage of user generated content? (Except for the plain text input, I don't think I want to write an EULA for just that.)

I'm just afraid of limiting my own creativity. Thanks for your time!

broadly speaking that part about not replicating its function is supposed to stop people from allowing their users to use the fonts for commercial use... for example a merch website letting their customers make logos with the font for selling t-shirts, or maybe a graphic design company like Canva or Adobe allowing use of the fonts directly for their users to make designs with etc. etc.

It was never intended to stop you from doing the things you described, where the content is only visible in the game and not commercialised by the player. So in the cases you said I would say feel free to use it. We need to do a pass on the legal language at some point to clarify this stuff properly.

Thanks for your answer! I think that puts a relief for my worries. I can think of a more troublesome case like if the player can export the design in a format openable in other programs (like PNG) but I guess I'll ask again if I actually make a game that does that 😅

And this might be a little out there but I do think clarity in the legal language is important in case someone inherited your business. Anyway, best of luck!