Lorel - 10:22 pm on Sep 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the input guys.

The problem with the owner buying the font and "lending" it to me is I work from a Mac and he from a PC, and not all fonts are designed for the Mac, so if I bought the Mac version and returned it to him, it would be useless to him.

This is a very good Q, but without a lawyer's advice I think it would get down to the TOS license agreement when you buy it. A standard operating procedure (note: by observation, not fact) is the designer buys the fonts, produces the work, and that work is replicated as often as required without infringement.

This is what I read on a few copyright/font sites. The owner already has a publisher for his hard copy printing using a slightly different font so that's not a problem.

I also understood that if I own the font then I can use the font on another client's logo, although how many times I can do that may be limited depending on the license TOS.