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April 2

Siemens webfonts

Time ago, using the inspect menu on Google Chrome, I have found links for download Siemens webfonts, but now the same links (https://www.siemens.com/etc/designs/publicis/nts/base/fonts/libs/siemens/siemenssans-roman-webfont.ttf) do not work. Can someone help me to find the new links? Thanks!!! --151.49.92.11 (talk) 18:49, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

The Webmaster at the Siemens site asks to be told at contact@siemens.com?subject=404 if a link does not work. Have you tried reporting the error? DroneB (talk) 22:40, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

That is only true if the original poster found the links on the Siemens web site. If they were somewhere else, that is not Siemens's problem. --76.69.46.228 (talk) 03:13, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I found links on the Siemens website, but I don’t know if is legal to download corporate fonts... --151.49.92.11 (talk) 04:07, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

The link doesn't work for me. But if it did, there's nothing to stop from downloading. The issue would be what you intend to do with it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:35, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

There's discussion of copyright issues at [1]. You can look into licensing - sample procedure at [2].2A00:23C0:7D00:FB01:2124:E2F9:775B:954C (talk) 14:53, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Well maybe, but you said this was "time ago". there's no reason why Siemens would be expected to keep links working for content intended for their internal use. If no current Siemens webpage uses that file, it's none of their concern that it no longer works. A quick look at one of their current pages finds this CSS https://new.siemens.com/etc/designs/siemens-sites/publish.0.190321114132.min.css amongst others. It uses https://new.siemens.com/etc/designs/siemens-sites/publish/fonts/siemenssans-roman-webfont.woff2 or https://new.siemens.com/etc/designs/siemens-sites/publish/fonts/siemenssans-roman-webfont.woff . A quick test confirms neither https://new.siemens.com/etc/designs/siemens-sites/publish/fonts/siemenssans-roman-webfont.ttf or https://new.siemens.com/etc/designs/siemens-sites/publish/fonts/siemenssans-roman-webfont.otf work. This isn't that surprising since Web Open Font Format has been supported in browsers for a long time, for example it's support with IE9. In fact it's only a time bit after Web typography#TrueType/OpenType. So really there's little reason to use TTF/OTF instead of WOFF. WOFF2 is still fairly new, so it makes sense to still support WOFF as it's reasonable some browsers may only support WOFF hence why the CSS specifies both as options. The alternative would be to automatically adjust the CSS or page depending on the detected browser. Nil Einne (talk) 15:39, 3 April 2019 (UTC)