License

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Secure Licensing

As there are more opportunities to deploy your content multilaterally, boosting the utility of commercial fonts in many business fields, we disclose the scope of the LETS license.

✓ Permitted in LETS 　X Not permitted in LETS

Printing

	LETS	Iwata LETS	Motoya LETS	Monotype LETS	Showashotai LETS
Use fonts in publications, ads, marketing materials, or products	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Process characters

	LETS	Iwata LETS	Motoya LETS	Monotype LETS	Showashotai LETS
Transformation, processing, disassembly, reorganizing	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Logos for registered trademarks	✓ ^*1	✓ ^*1	some restrictions^*2	✓ ^*1	✓ ^*1
Logos for non-registered trademarks	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

*1: Exclusive use of the typefaces or font programs is prohibited.
*2: To apply for a registered trademark for your logo, you must obtain a separate license (charged), and submit your design for approval prior to application.

Digital Contents

	LETS	Iwata LETS	Motoya LETS	Monotype LETS	Showashotai LETS
In electric catalogs and signage as images	✓	✓	✓	some restrictions^*3	✓

*3: If not used as images, they must be distributed free of charge.

Electronic books

	LETS	Iwata LETS	Motoya LETS	Monotype LETS	Showashotai LETS
Display characters as images	✓	some restrictions^*5	✓	✓	✓
Display the font subset for static layout	✓	some restrictions^*5	X	✓	✓
Display the font subset for dynamic layout	✓	some restrictions^*5	X	✓	✓
Display the embedded characters in PDF files	✓	some restrictions^*5	✓	some restrictions^*6	✓
Display the characters in video subtitles as images	✓	some restrictions^*5	✓	✓	✓
Integrate the full character set of the font into display devices	X^*4	X^*5	X^*4	X^*4	X

*4: Please contact us for customizing fonts for OEM and development, or supply of fonts for integration.
*5: Please contact us for more details.
*6: PDF files must be distributed free of charge.

Web

	LETS	Iwata LETS	Motoya LETS	Monotype LETS	Showashotai LETS
Display as images	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
For Web fonts	X^*7	X	X	X	X

*7: The FONTPLUS for LETS PUTK is available for this purpose (for Japanese and selected Latin fonts only).

Broadcasting and Videos

	LETS	Iwata LETS	Motoya LETS	Monotype LETS	Showashotai LETS
Films, broadcasts, promotional videos, commercials	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Media for sale such as DVDs	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Game Amusement

	LETS	Iwata LETS	Motoya LETS	Monotype LETS	Showashotai LETS
Display characters as images in contents	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Character editing features, dynamic fonts, or font integration	some restrictions	some restrictions	some restrictions	some restrictions	some restrictions

* Optional Extended Licenses are available for a fee.

Embedding Fonts in Adobe Animate (the former Flash)

	LETS	Iwata LETS	Motoya LETS	Monotype LETS	Showashotai LETS
Static Text	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Dynamic Text	some restrictions^*8	X^*9	X^*9	some restrictions^*8	some restrictions^*8
Input Text	some restrictions^*8	X^*9	X^*9	some restrictions^*8	some restrictions^*8

*8: Optional Extended Licenses are available for a fee.
*9: Please contact us if you would like to use fonts in direct embedding.

Installing Fonts into Servers

	LETS	Iwata LETS	Motoya LETS	Monotype LETS	Showashotai LETS
Managing fonts in sever operation	some restrictions	some restrictions	some restrictions	X	some restrictions
ASP servers	some restrictions	some restrictions	some restrictions	X	some restrictions

* For the optional Housei LETS license scope, please refer to the Housei LETS page on the LETS website (https://lets-site.jp/lets/fwlets/option/houseilets).
* Please contact our Support Center for more information, or if you are not sure of which case applies.