This depends on how you like to use the font.
We have three types of Licence in our shop.
Desktop-Licence:
install a typeface on a predetermined amount of computers and produce print products, logos, images or videos.
Web-Licence:
use a font at your website up to the monthly page views.
App-Licence:
embed a typeface into one application you build, such as IOS or Android apps
When you buy a Font, you are purchasing a particular right to use a typeface.
The End User Licence Agreement (EULA) defines how.
The EULA is a legally binding contract between you and Luzi Type.
Licences are perpetual and no subscriptions.
This means you need to pay the licence fee once without ever needing to renew.
No, you cannot share your Licence with clients or others.
Your client needs his own license if they want to produce output themselves (e.g. in Word or InDesign).
Yes, this is possible. Make sure you put the name of your client in the Licence-Holder-field at the checkout page.
Please note this Licences can only be used directly by your client.
You cannot install or use the font on your computers or in your office.
We do not provide any cross-organisation Licence.
No, we do not permit resale our fonts to anybody including your clients.
Meaning you can charge your client for your design work, but not for the font itself.
Desktop Licence:
| You Can: |
You Can Not: |
install fonts on computers
(regarding the amount of your
purchase) |
share, lend or sell fonts with your
clients or others |
use fonts on computers of your
organisation |
use fonts on computers which are
not from your organisation |
use fonts for logos and corporate
identities |
modify font-files (OTF) in a
font-editor such as FontLab |
convert fonts to outlines (e.g. in
Illustrator) and change its shape |
convert typefaces in other any
other font-formats |
produce paper publications such
as books, magazines and posters |
use fonts online on websites
e.g. with the @font-face method |
use fonts on 3D objects such as
shirts or pencils |
embed fonts in applications such
as IOS applications |
create images of the fonts and use
them online |
use the font for in large-scale
broadcasting |
export PDF’s and pass
them to others |
switch the owner of the Licence
(pass your Licence to others) |
pass the fonts to a printer, they
have to delete the font afterwards |
use fonts on more computers than
your invoices indicates |
Yes, you can pass fonts to a printer or service bureau. Afterwards, the printer or service bureau must delete the copies of the typefaces.
Please count the number of computers that will have direct or indirect access to the fonts.
A Licence is tied to an on single organisation or person (the Licence-Holder).
It does not matter where the computers are located.
As long the fonts are used on computers owned by the organisation.
Please count the numbers of computers which have access to the font, that’s it.
It depends on the case.
You can use Desktop-Fonts in videos or films in small-scale distribution up to 100 thousand daily views.
This should cover most social media uses.
Broadcast Desktop-Fonts in large-scale via theatrical release film, television, or online with more than
100 thousand daily views, requires a broadcast-licence regarding the audience size. Feel free to contact us.
Yes, with a Desktop Licence you can design Logos.
The Logotype can be used and distributed as Outline-Paths (vectors) or as Pixel Images.
There is no additional Licence required.
Yes, with a Desktop Licence you can design Product Packaging or any other three-dimensional Objects.
Web Licence:
| You Can: |
You Can Not: |
embed fonts in a website for one
domain (incl. sub-domains) |
install and use fonts on
personal computers |
use fonts up to the purchased
web-traffic of your site |
convert or modify typefaces in other
font-formats |
switch domains, as long the domain
is from your organisation |
use fonts on more than
one domain |
host fonts on your server and embed
font with the
@font-face method |
share, lend or sell fonts with your
clients or others |
|
embed the font files into a mobile
application |
No, you can use one Web-Licence only for one domain (incl. Sub-Domains).
You can switch domains as long they belong to your Organisation.
Transfer of this Licence to a third party is not permitted.
One web licence can be used for various Subdomains united under one single domain.
For example; www.Example.com is a domain, www.Shop.Example.com is a Subdomain.
A single Page View is one request for displaying a page of your Website.
So the amount of monthly Page Views is every request made at your Website within one month.
It depends on how.
Yes, if the developer works in your business location on a computer that belongs to your organisation.
This is also possible if the developer works from afar on your server.
No, if the developer works on another location and with his own computer.
Web-Licences are purchase regarding how much monthly page views your website has.
20k monthly page views are 20 thousand monthly requests for seeing a website.
The ‘k’ stands for (kilo) Thousand, the ‘m’ stands for Million.
Please contact us for upgrading your Web-Licence.
We only charge the additional cost to get you up to the next page view level.
When purchasing a Web-Font, you will receive an instruction HTML-file called Fontname_ReadMe.html.
Please open the file in an HTML-Editor (such as Sublime or Dreamweaver) and see the head section.
There you can find our recommended syntax for @font-face linking.
App Licence:
| You Can: |
You Can Not: |
embed fonts in one application such
as Android or IOS app |
convert or modify typefaces in other
font-formats |
publish your application for
different devices or operating systems |
install the fonts on personal
computers and generating output
e.g. in InDesign |
|
use fonts online on websites e.g.
with the @font-face method |
|
switch the owner of the Licence
(pass your Licence to others) |
|
share, lend or sell fonts with your
clients or others |
It depends on how.
Yes, if the developer works in your business location on a computer that belongs to your organisation.
No, if the developer works on another location and with his own computer.
One App-Licence covers one single Application.
Meaning an Application that is functionally equal across multiple mobile operating systems.
Testing:
Yes, you can download them at the trials page.
Trial versions have a limited character set, included is:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
, . - 1234567890
Furthermore, contains this version the full spacing and kerning.
Trail versions are made to decide if a font is the right choice for a project.
They are free and available with no registration.
Due to this, we have to limit the amount of characters. We can not provide a complete version for testing.
To be fair towards everyone, we do not make any exceptions to this rule.
We try to display our fonts as clear as possible, this includes:
- Trial Fonts, with limited Caracter-Set
- Online Font Tester, with complete Caracter-Set and all OpenType Features
- Specimens, with an overview of the Caracter-Set
- detailed Font Samples
- real Uses from customers
Trial versions are made for testing inside your office or university.
You cannot use Trial-Fonts in any final files for any commercial or public project.
This includes also displaying work publicly for example on portfolio websites.
If you want to use the font in any other way, except testing in your organisation, you have to buy a full version.
Please find more information in our EULA Trial-Font.
No, we cannot provide a full version for testing.
To be fair towards everyone, we do not make any exceptions to this rule.
We try to display our fonts as clear as possible, this includes:
- Trial Fonts, with limited Caracter-Set
- Online Font Tester, with complete Caracter-Set and all OpenType Features
- Specimens, with an overview of the Caracter-Set
- detailed Font Samples
- real Uses from customers
Technical Matters:
- Desktop-Fonts: OTF (postscript flavoured)
- Desktop-Variable-Fonts: TTF
- Web-Fonts: WOFF, WOFF2 and EOT
- Web-Variable-Fonts: WOFF and WOFF2
- App-Fonts: OTF (postscript flavoured)
It depends, feel free to send us a request via mail.
Mac OSX:
To install a font on OSX, you can use the app Font Book.
This Application is installed on Apple computers by default.
Launch Font Book from your Applications folder.
Double click your downloaded zip file (for unzipping the folder).
Drag your downloaded font-files (.OTF) on the icon of Font Book.
A new window will appear, click the button install, volá.
Windows:
To activate a font on Windows, go to the following folder on your computer: Local Disk (C:) / Windows / Fonts.
Right-click the downloaded .zip file and select (Extract All), so you unzip the folder.
Now drag the font files (.OTF) into the Fonts folder, that’s it.
Please restart your computer, if fonts not show up in menus of applications.
Yes, have a look at the last page in our specimens. You can find them in the subpages of each font.
Some of our fonts have different versions of letters (e.g the g-like-lowercase-y or an uppercase-Z with stroke).
You can use these Alternate Glyphs via the OpenType Feature Stylistic Set.
In Adobe InDesign you can find the Stylistic Sets Options as following:
Menu: Caracter (Panel) / Options Menu / OpenType / Stylistic Sets / Set 1
In Adobe Illustrator you can find the Stylistic Sets Options as following:
Menu Type / OpenType (Panel) / the a-a-button
Various other programs support Stylistic Sets.
Best you have a look in the user manual of your program and look out for Stylistic Set or OpenType Features.
Yes, our fonts support Microsoft Office, including the use of italic- and bold-button (style linking).
Please note that Word or Powerpoint on Windows will not display italic in the drop-down font menu.
This is normal behaviour since styles are linked.
You can access italics via italic-button.
Kerning has to be switched on manually by default in Microsoft Office (which is recommended).
Language:
All our typefaces* have the standard Latin +100, among the following languages are supported:
Afaan Oromo
Afar
Afrikaans
Albanian
Atayal
Amis
Asturian
Aymara
Bashkir lat.
Basque
Belarusian lat.
Bemba
Bikol
Bosnian
Cape Verdean Creole
Catalan
Cebuano
Chavacano
Chichewa
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Esperanto
Faroese
Fijian
Filipino
Finnish
French
Frisian
Friulian
Galician
German
Gikuyu
Greenlandic
Haitian Creole
Hiligaynon
Hungarian
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Ilocano
Jamaican
Javanese lat.
Kalaallisut
Kashubian
Kikongo
Kinyarwanda
Kiribati
Kirundi
Kurdish lat.
Ladin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Lombard
Makhuwa
Malay
Moldovan
Montenegrin
Ndebele
Norwegian
Occitan
Oshiwambo
Ossetian lat.
Piedmontese
Polish
Portuguese
Quechua
Q’eqchi’
Romanian
Romansh
Sango
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian lat.
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Sotho
Spanish
Sundanese lat.
Swazi
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tetum
Tok Pisin
Tshiluba
Tsonga
Tongan
Tswana
Turkish
Turkmen lat.
Uzbek lat.
Walloon
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Zulu
Zapotec
Please have a look at the last page in our specimens for further details.
*(Except the symbol archive Assembly and Livorno)
Our fonts can be used for more than 100 languages; we call this standard (Latin +100).
Please see the previous tab for a complete list.
Let’s talk about it, please send us a mail.
Before Buying:
We only give discounts to student projects and public universities (Classroom-Licences).
To be fair towards everyone, we cannot make any exceptions to this rule.
Please note that we have already by default a volume discount in our shop.
Prices are adjusted to include a discount when the quantity increases.
For example, if you buy Lynstone Bold as an individual weight, you’ll pay 76 CHF.
When you purchase Lynstone Family (considers of 10 weights) you pay 277 CHF.
You get a volume discount of 63 percent.
We also have discounts when purchasing larger quantities.
Let’s make an example for a Web-Licence:
Lynstone Bold 20-thousand monthly views costs 76 CHF.
Lynstone Bold 2-million monthly views costs 608 CHF.
2-million is 100 times 20-thousand (100 × 76 CHF = 7600 CHF).
You get a volume discount of 92 percent.
For a project, with a small budget, you might consider buying single font weights.
Fonts consider of different font weights (for example Light, Regular and Bold).
When you buy the Font Family, you purchase all font weights of that family.
Every font has a particular subpage, on this page you can find all info of the font.
Or in the shop are all available Font weights listed.
Luzi Type fonts are available exclusively at Luzi-Type.ch.
Please send us a mail; we are glad to provide offers on request.
The minimum quantity for a Desktop-Licence is 3 computers.
That means you can use the Licence up to three computers.
Less than 3 is captured within this price bracket.
The price brackets for the number of computers are fixed and cannot be changed.
Luzi Type offers on request Licence for Broadcasting, Classroom-Licences and Corporate-Licences (full Buy-Out). Please send us a mail.
No, there are no recurring fees or subscription. All Licences are valid without temporal limitation.
Paying:
You can choose between two payment methods.
Credit Card:
Use your MasterCard, Visa or American Express in our shop.
Every transaction is done encrypted and directly on the secure servers of Stripe.
We not store any credit card information at any moment.
Bank Transfer:
We offer to pay via bank transfer using IBAN.
Please note, fonts can be delivered only after we receive the full payment at our bank account.
Usually, this takes until four business days after sending the payment.
Please use this Link.
You will be redirected to our shop.
The Cart will be cleared and the word Bank Transfer appears.
Now you can add your fonts to the Cart.
After you finish the Checkout we send you a Email with instructions how to make the Bank Transfer.
Yes, we offer to pay via bank transfer using IBAN.
Please note, fonts can be delivered only after we receive the full payment at our bank account.
Usually, this takes until four business days after sending the payment.
Please use this Link.
You will be redirected to our shop.
The Cart will be cleared and the word Bank Transfer appears.
Now you can add your fonts to the Cart.
After you finish the Checkout we send you a Email with instructions how to make the Bank Transfer.
No, prices are exclusive taxes.
If you're in Switzerland, 7.7% VAT* will be added at the checkout page.
Outside of Switzerland will be no tax added.
*(Mehrwertsteuer, Taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, Imposta sul valore aggiunto).
It depends where you located. No, if you are outside of Switzerland.
Yes, when you're in Switzerland, 7.7% VAT* will be added at the checkout page.
*(Mehrwertsteuer, Taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, Imposta sul valore aggiunto).
Yes, we use the most up-to-date technology for our webshop.
The complete website is SSL TLS 1.2 encrypted and all payments are processed only and directly on the secure servers of Stripe.
We not store any credit card information at any moment.
All prices on our site are in Swiss Francs.
We are glad to assist; please send us a mail.
After Buying:
Directly after the payment is processed, you will receive Purchase Receipt via email.
On the Receipt are the Download Links plus Invoices. In case of delay, have a look at your spam folder.
Please contact us, if your order is not received in one hour.
Or log in at your account in the shop: luzi-type.ch/shop/account.
Download Links on Purchase Receipt can be used maximum ten times.
Please contact us we are glad to resend you a new Purchase Receipt with new Download Links.
Please try the links in another browser.
Rarely depending on the browser-setting, links can get blocked by browsers.
This is common: your project expands, and you need a bigger Licence than purchased.
You can upgrade your Licence at any moment.
You can upgrade from:
- single font weight(s) to full family (e.g. Cádiz Light to Cádiz Family)
- Desktop; your current amount of computers to an increased amount of computers
- Web; your current number of monthly page views to an increased number of page views
We charge only the extra cost (the new Licences - your purchased Licences = the upgrade price).
Please contact us for more information.
Following does NOT qualify as an upgrade:
- from Web-Licence to Desktop- or App-Licence
- from one font weight to add different weight
- from one font family to another family (e.g. Messina Sans to Messina Sans Mono)
After purchasing, you receive a Purchase Receipt via email.
On the receipt is a link to download invoices.
Or log in at your account in the shop: luzi-type.ch/shop/account.
Feel free to contact us, in case you need further information on your invoice.
Yes, we update our fonts now and then.
If you like to receive an update, feel free to send us a mail.
We are glad to send you an updated version for free.
In case you bought a complete family, and we added more font weights you can upgrade for the extra cost.
All font purchases are final.
Unfortunately can Fonts not be returned, so we cannot refund.
Our Swiss VAT registry number (for value-added tax in Switzerland) is CHE-196.638.500 MWST.
Please note, only sales inside of Switzerland do include 7.9% MWST (VAT).
It depends, if you already downloaded the font, it cannot be exchanged.
A purchase is final when a font is downloaded with the link from the purchase receipt.
Lost Files & Account:
When purchasing we automatically create an account for you.
So please log in to your account: luzi-type.ch/shop/account.
In your account, you can download your purchased font-files directly.
When purchasing we automatically create an account for you.
Please log in with this Link.
Your Email address is the Username.
For first use you have to set a new Password.
If you lost your Password, there is a simple reset function.
Your account gives you direct access to your purchases and invoices.
Further, can you change your contact information.
The Username is always the Email Address you used for the purchase.
You can set a new Password; or reset your Password if you lost it.
Please use this Link.
Please use your Email Address which you used for purchasing.
Afterwards, you will receive a link to create a new Password via email.
No, when purchasing we automatically create an account for you.
You can set a password afterwards with this Link.
If you are a returning customer, please log in first with this Link.
Technical Problems:
We are glad to hear from you, send us a mail with as much information as possible about the problem including operating system, type-management-tool, software and printers.
A good initial is always clearing the font-cash and a restart of your computer.
Yes, the warranty period is 60 days after the receiving of the goods. During that period we try everything possible to solve problems.
We will refund the purchase price if this is insufficient for you. This only applies if it is a technical problem.
For more details have a look at the EULA.
Spezia the Variable Font:
A Variable Font can display multiple weights in one Font.
So every Family does include a Variable Font Version.
There are seven families: Condensed / Narrow / Normal / Wide / Extended / Mono / SemiMono .
When purchasing Spezia Complete, you receive a Variable Font which contains the Super Family in three Variable Fonts (Complete Upright, Complete Italic and Complete Monospace).
That is equal up to 40 Font-weights in one single font file.
If you buy Spezia Monospace Complete, you get a Variable Font containing all weights from Mono to Normal.
All single font weights come with no Variable Font Version.
Variable Fonts are split in two separate font-files: Upright and Italic.
We made this decision to achieve the best interpolation result.
Currently Variable Fonts are supported by: OSX 10.5+ / iOS 3.2+ / Windows 10+ / Android 5+.
A Variable Font is not a new font-format.
It is an extension of the OpenType Format (TrueType flavour, TTF) so you can install it like every typeface at your computer.
Please see: → How to install fonts on my computer?
At the moment Variable Fonts are supported by Adobe InDesign 2020, Illustrator CC 2019 and Photoshop CC 2019.
Every font comes with a Standard Version in single font weights (as Desktop-, Web- or App-Font).
This ensures the compatibility in all possible uses.
We provide a sample Html File which shows our recommendations (also included in the trials).
Mozilla provides an excellent overview of the technical possibilities.
Have a look at their Variable Fonts guide.
Yes, since it is a new technique, we may have to update the fonts from time to time.
We are keen to see our Variable Font running smoothly in all major design applications especially in Adobe Applications.
You have found the perfect setting of width and weight for your project.
Now you like to have this setting as a single font file.
Unfortunately, we can not export single font weights since this would be too time consuming, sorry.
This depends on the family, here a list:
- Spezia Complete Upright: 97 KB
- Spezia Complete Italic: 130 KB
- Spezia Condensed Upright: 48 KB
- Spezia Condensed Italic: 52 KB
- Spezia Narrow Upright: 47 KB
- Spezia Narrow Italic: 51 KB
- Spezia Normal Upright: 47 KB
- Spezia Normal Italic: 50 KB
- Spezia Wide Upright: 48 KB
- Spezia Wide Italic: 50 KB
- Spezia Extended Upright: 48 KB
- Spezia Extended Italic: 51 KB
- Spezia Monospace Complete: 79 KB
- Spezia Monospace Mono: 48 KB
- Spezia Monospace SemiMono: 53 KB
Customising:
You can convert fonts into paths or pixels and create outline artworks, e.g. in Adobe Illustrator.
Modify and or converting the font-file itself (e.g. the OTF) in any way is not allowed.
We can provide modification and personalisation of fonts, depending on the case.
Please note customising fonts can be a detail-rich task which needs quite a bit of time and work.
Since we are a small studio, long-term scheduling is crucial.
Let’s discuss, feel free to send us a request.
Yes, we design custom typefaces depending on the case.
Feel free to send us a request to discuss.
This depends on the case and the scope of the project.
Let put it this way designing fonts is a detail-rich task which needs quite a bit of time and work.
Since we are a small studio, long-term scheduling is crucial.
Yes, we provide further in-depth typographic consulting for editorial and branding needs.
Student Questions:
We try to answer all your questions.
Sometimes it is difficult since we are busy designing fonts.
Please keep the questions specific and brief.
Probably it is more purposeful for you and more fun for us.
Yes, feel free to use all our trial fonts for student projects.
Please note that Trial-Fonts cannot be used for any commercial or public project.
This includes also displaying work publicly for example on your portfolio websites.
If you like to use the font in public, you can buy our Student-Licence (see next tab).
Yes, we support student projects with a 50% discount.
This Education-Licence can be used in public projects (such as exhibitions, year book’s etc.).
The font cannot be used for commercial purpose.
If you want to use the fonts outside of the education context or in commercial projects, you can upgrade to a Standard Licence at any time, (for the extra cost).
Feel free to send us a mail.
No, we do not provide free full versions for student projects.
To be fair towards everyone, we cannot make any exceptions to this rule.
If you are a student, you can purchase an Education-Licence.
Or also an option is using our trial fonts in your course.
Please note that Trial-Fonts cannot be used for any commercial or public project.
This includes also displaying work publicly for example on your portfolio websites.
Other Questions:
Yes, besides English can answer enquiries in German and Spanish.
We use Spezia Normal on our website.
The (g-like) lowercase-y is an alternate Glyph and can be used via OpenType Feature Stylistic-Set-1.
We have a newsletter, please see the subscription-field at the end of this page.
Best you send us a mail at info@luzi-type.ch, we respond to emails from Monday to Friday within 24 hours.
We take data privacy seriously.
Because of this, we collect only information necessary for running our service.
You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you.
Further can you ask us that we change your personal information, or completely delete your information (when no contractual association remains).
We are NOT using services on our website such as Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Bing or Digital Advertising Alliance’s.
For more information, see our Privacy Terms.
Address and Contact
Luzi Type;
Luzi Gantenbein,
Bürglenstrasse 50,
3006 Bern,
Switzerland
VAT Number: CHE-196.638.500 MWST
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