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I want to use a font on a website, but it is a non-free font, i.e. Gabriola. If I just use it as the first font, relying on the user's PC to have the font installed, will that be illegal commercial use?

I do not want to embed it using using CSS...
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Richard MacCutchan 19-Jul-14 9:07am    
What happens if the user's PC does not have it installed?

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Gabriola is a licensed font: but it does list "web developers" in it's "can use" list.
I'd check if I was you what the licence agreement said when you bought it: that is the ultimate arbiter of what you can and can't do with it.

Certainly, if you try to use it without embedding it, it won't work on my system since I don't have Gabriola installed (and would never come back to your site if I had to install a font just to make it look "pretty").
Your best bet (if you have a legitimate copy of the font) is probably to use it to create images and use those on your site instead...
 
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