Graduate students unable to complete theses due to proprietary font requirements they cannot access

PhD and Master's candidates face institutional thesis formatting requirements that mandate proprietary fonts they don't own and cannot legally obtain, creating a blocker to degree completion. Universities enforce these requirements without providing font licenses or alternatives, forcing students to either violate academic integrity policies, pay unexpected costs, or delay graduation. Current solutions (buying fonts individually, requesting exceptions) are expensive, time-consuming, and unreliable.