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I'm working as typographic consultant for MyFonts.com, an online font distributor (http://www.myfonts.com/ ). Helen Duggan asked us for opinion in the matter you are discussing. MyFonts.com doesn't currently offer fonts from Agfa Monotype, so we are in no position to give any official statement on that matter. If you are looking for an official opinion, please contact Agfa Monotype at http://www.fonts.com/

However, from my own practice so far, I can say that offering a digital version of a logo that uses several characters set in a typeface is by no means illegal. This is actual not only fair use of the typeface, but even its intended use.

The historical name -- a font of type -- means the complete character set of a given typeface. It is illegal to duplicate and distribute fonts, that is, the digital files that contain the complete character set and allow you to set arbitrary text in that typeface. A pre-rendered text that only uses some characters does not give the user the ability to typeset other texts.

If we followed the logic that prohibits distributing such digital logo, it would basically mean, that it is illegal to put any kind of PDF documents online -- since they contain texts set in a particular typeface, and ofter contain embedded fonts.

In fact, many foundries allow embedding fonts in PDF documents if so-called font subsetting is active (that means, that only the characters used in the document are embedded, not the entire font).

As mentioned above, my explanations cannot be considered an official legal advice -- for that, please contact Agfa Monotype who is the vendor of the font in question. I would be, however, very surprised to hear that their opinion is much different from mine.

Thank you for using MyFonts.com, best regards,
Adam Twardoch
MyFonts.com typographic consultant