AARAU FONT LICENCE AGREEMENT
Version 1.0
Effective for Aarau 0.2 and later
Copyright (c) 2026 Benjamin Miles. All rights reserved.

IMPORTANT
Aarau is free for personal, non-commercial use only. Commercial use requires a paid licence from Benjamin Miles before the commercial use begins.

This licence applies to Aarau 0.2 and later distributions. Copies of Aarau 0.1 that were previously distributed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 remain licensed under those earlier terms. This agreement does not revoke rights already granted for those legacy copies.

1. DEFINITIONS

"Font Software" means the Aarau font files, including TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2, variable-font files, and any accompanying files supplied by the copyright holder.

"Personal Use" means use by one individual for private, educational, experimental, or non-commercial work that is not performed for a business, client, employer, paid organisation, monetised product, advertising campaign, or other commercial purpose.

"Commercial Use" means any use connected to a business, profession, client, employer, paid service, monetised activity, advertising, promotion, product for sale, company identity, website, application, software product, or other activity intended to generate revenue or commercial benefit.

2. OWNERSHIP

Aarau and the Font Software are owned by Benjamin Miles and are protected by copyright and other applicable intellectual property laws. No ownership is transferred under this agreement.

3. FREE PERSONAL LICENCE

One individual may download, install, and use Aarau without charge for Personal Use.

Permitted Personal Use includes:
- school and study work;
- private design experiments;
- personal, non-commercial artwork;
- testing and evaluating the typeface;
- a personal portfolio showing the individual's own non-commercial work.

The free personal licence does not permit Commercial Use.

4. COMMERCIAL LICENCES

Commercial Use requires an appropriate paid licence.

Current standard licence categories are:

Individual Commercial Licence: A$39
- one licensed user;
- client work;
- logos and identity artwork;
- advertising, social media, print, packaging, presentations, and other static commercial output;
- does not include webfont embedding, app/software embedding, redistribution of font files, or use by additional users.

Small Team Licence: A$99
- up to five licensed users within one company, studio, or organisation;
- the same static commercial uses permitted by the Individual Commercial Licence;
- does not include webfont embedding, app/software embedding, or redistribution of font files.

Web Licence: A$79 per domain
- permits Aarau webfont files to be embedded and served on one licensed domain;
- does not permit the font files to be offered for download or reused on unlicensed domains.

App / Software Licence: from A$399 per app or software product
- permits embedding Aarau in one licensed application or software product;
- pricing may vary according to distribution, users, platforms, or scale.

Enterprise / Extended Licence: custom quote
- required for more than five font users, multiple domains or products, OEM use, server use, large-scale distribution, sublicensing requirements, or uses outside the standard licences.

Prices may change for future purchases. A licence already purchased remains valid for the scope shown on the purchase record or written licence confirmation.

5. CLIENT WORK

A licensed designer may create final static artwork for a client under an Individual Commercial or Small Team Licence.

A client must obtain its own appropriate licence if the client, its employees, contractors, or agents need to install, edit with, embed, or otherwise directly use the Font Software.

6. WEB, APP, AND SOFTWARE EMBEDDING

A desktop or static-output commercial licence does not permit webfont, app, game, software, e-book, digital-product, or other executable embedding unless the relevant embedding licence has been purchased.

7. RESTRICTIONS

Except where an applicable paid licence expressly permits it, you may not:
- sell, sublicense, give away, share, or redistribute the Font Software;
- upload the Font Software to a public font library or public download service;
- make the Font Software available to unlicensed users;
- resell the Font Software by itself or as part of a competing font collection;
- convert or package the Font Software for redistribution;
- remove or alter copyright, licence, or authorship information;
- claim authorship or ownership of Aarau.

8. MODIFICATIONS AND OUTLINES

You may convert text set in Aarau to outlines, paths, pixels, or other static artwork for uses allowed by your licence.

You may modify the Font Software for your own licensed use, but modified font files remain subject to this agreement and may not be redistributed, sold, sublicensed, or provided to third parties without written permission from Benjamin Miles.

9. CLOUD AND TEAM TOOLS

A licensed user may upload Aarau to a private design or collaboration service only when access to the font is limited to users covered by the applicable licence and the service does not make the font publicly downloadable or available to unlicensed users.

10. TRANSFER AND SUBLICENSING

Licences are non-transferable and may not be sublicensed unless Benjamin Miles agrees otherwise in writing.

11. TERMINATION

If you breach this agreement, your licence terminates automatically. You must stop using the Font Software for the affected use and remove unauthorised copies. Rights may be restored only with written permission from Benjamin Miles.

12. WARRANTY AND LIABILITY

The Font Software is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind to the maximum extent permitted by law. Benjamin Miles is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss arising from use of the Font Software, except where liability cannot legally be excluded.

13. GOVERNING LAW

This agreement is governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, subject to any mandatory consumer or other laws that apply.

14. CONTACT AND COMMERCIAL LICENSING

Commercial licence enquiries:
benmilespersonal@gmail.com

Official licence page:
https://benji-bitter.github.io/Aarau/license.html

Official Aarau website:
https://benji-bitter.github.io/Aarau/

Copyright (c) 2026 Benjamin Miles. All rights reserved.
