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Arial for sure does require licensing it is owned by Monotype. Monotype sells it here https://www.myfonts.com/collections/arial-font-monotype-imag...

You actually have to license the typeface for many usecases. Even as a web service they were probably licensing webfont because Arial is not available on all systems so your Androids and Linuxes would see different font.

And yes the biggest reason to do this is to make your own tweaks without bumping into licensing issues.



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