Webfont License Audit

Audits @font-face CSS for proprietary foundry families, desktop-format binaries, renamed OFL families and remote Google Fonts hotlinks - the questions a webfont licence audit letter asks. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Same engine as the VS Code extension, byte for byte.

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The 12 licence questions a foundry audit letter asks, run against your CSS

LG Muenchen I, 3 O 17493/20, 2022-01-20: 100 euro damages to one visitor for a remote Google Fonts call; a solicitor's reply bills by the hour.

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What does Webfont License Audit actually do?

It reads every .css, .scss and .less file in your workspace, parses each @font-face block, and reports webfont licence risks with a rule id, a severity and a line number. Twelve rules cover the declared font-family, every src url including base64 data URIs, remote font hosts in @import lines, and whether the stylesheet carries a licence line at all.

Who is this for?

Front-end developers and agency teams shipping websites into the EU and the UK, especially anyone who inherited a stylesheet whose font stack nobody can name a licence for. It is written for the moment a foundry audit letter or a German Google-Fonts warning letter lands and somebody has to answer it with file names and line numbers.

Why will a chatbot or a free checker not do this?

A language model can recite the SIL Open Font License, but it cannot see the four @import lines and the five @font-face blocks in the stylesheet you are shipping tonight, and it will not hand you line numbers. Generic CSS linters check syntax and performance; none of them hold a list of foundry families or the OFL Reserved Font Name clause.

What is free and what does the full version add?

Free, with no key: the entire scan across the whole workspace, every finding, every line number, all twelve rules. Nothing is hidden or counted down. The full version adds a different job - exporting that finding list as a dated FONT-LICENSE-AUDIT.md plus a CSV evidence pack you own, keep, and hand to an auditor or your legal team.

What would this cost if a person did it?

A solicitor reading one stylesheet's font stack and writing the reply to a warning letter bills by the hour. For scale, on 2022-01-20 the Landgericht München I decided case 3 O 17493/20 and awarded a single visitor 100 euro because a site fetched a font from fonts.googleapis.com. That is one visitor, on one ground, from one line of CSS.

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