Using @font-face for Segoe UI font [closed]

Question

I have Google for an hour now and I can't find out if I can use @font-face using the Segoe UI font. Would any body know if the license for the font will allow me to do this?

Answer 1

As the other answers note, Segoe UI is not available for use in web apps not made by Microsoft or their agents. To answer the title of your question, however, I'd like to point out that Microsoft themselves use Segoe UI in their web apps via @font-face, eg, from the Microsoft Surface 2 CSS:

@font-face {     font-family: 'Segoe UI';     src: url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/normal/segoeui.eot');     src: url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/normal/segoeui.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),          url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/normal/segoeui.woff') format('woff'),          url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/normal/segoeui.svg#SegoeUI') format('svg');     font-weight: normal;     font-style: normal; }  @font-face {     font-family: 'Segoe UI Semibold';     src: url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/semibold/seguisb.eot');     src: url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/semibold/seguisb.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),          url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/semibold/seguisb.woff') format('woff'),          url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/semibold/seguisb.svg#SegoeUISemibold') format('svg');     font-weight: normal;     font-style: normal; }  @font-face {     font-family: 'Segoe UI Bold';     src: url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/bold/segoeuib.eot');     src: url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/bold/segoeuib.eot?#iefix') format('eot'), /* Wrong format will tell IE9+ to ignore and use WOFF instead. MSHAR-2822 */          url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/bold/segoeuib.woff') format('woff'),          url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/bold/segoeuib.svg#SegoeUIBold') format('svg');     font-weight: normal;     font-style: normal; }  @font-face {     font-family: 'Segoe UI Light';     src: url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/light/segoeuil.eot');     src: url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/light/segoeuil.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),          url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/light/segoeuil.woff') format('woff'),          url('/surface/Assets/css/fonts/all/light/segoeuil.svg#SegoeUILight') format('svg');     font-weight: normal;     font-style: normal; } 

Even projects like Metro UI - that look exactly like Windows 8 - use OpenSans:

@font-face {   font-family: "Open Sans";   font-style: normal;   font-weight: 700;   src: local("Open Sans Bold"), local("OpenSans-Bold"), url(https://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/k3k702ZOKiLJc3WVjuplzJ1r3JsPcQLi8jytr04NNhU.woff) format('woff'); } @font-face {   font-family: "Open Sans";   font-style: normal;   font-weight: 300;   src: local("Open Sans Light"), local("OpenSans-Light"), url(https://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/DXI1ORHCpsQm3Vp6mXoaTZ1r3JsPcQLi8jytr04NNhU.woff) format('woff'); } @font-face {   font-family: "Open Sans";   font-style: normal;   font-weight: 800;   src: local("Open Sans Extrabold"), local("OpenSans-Extrabold"), url(https://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/EInbV5DfGHOiMmvb1Xr-hp1r3JsPcQLi8jytr04NNhU.woff) format('woff'); } @font-face {   font-family: "Open Sans";   font-style: normal;   font-weight: 400;   src: local("Open Sans"), local("OpenSans"), url(https://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/K88pR3goAWT7BTt32Z01mz8E0i7KZn-EPnyo3HZu7kw.woff) format('woff'); } 

I would recommend OpenSans.