Saturday, December 29, 2018

opentype - How to find out whether a font is authentic?


Is there a way to find out whether a font is authentic or fake? Font files both online and on my machine are often of unclear origin, yet I'd like to be sure that I paid for the fonts that are commercially available and that I have a genuine original.


Is there a way to check the authenticity of a font file?


I am interested mostly in Type 1 fonts (.pfm and .pfb files), but also an answer for Open Type (otf) and True Type (.ttf) would certainly be useful.




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