#fontlicensing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fontlicensing, aggregated by home.social.
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Hot take Friday: carefully abiding by the Font Licensing terms is irrelevant and foolish. It doesn't matter because Monotype will bully you regardless; until you either pay up, or you decide to custom commission a near-clone of Helvetica for your global branding.
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Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k
#HackerNews #JapaneseGameDevs #FontLicensing #GameDevelopment #PricingDilemma #IndieDevChallenges
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🎉 Breaking News: #Monotype, the ruthless font mafia, is out to shakedown every unsuspecting designer, demanding your firstborn in Helvetica Neue. Meanwhile, Nadia's blog is a thrilling epic of everything and nothing, where the only thing more overwhelming than the font licensing terms is the scatterbrained list of topics. 🚀💥
https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/11/14/monotype-font-licencing-shake-down #BreakingNews #FontLicensing #Designers #Blogging #Chaos #HackerNews #ngated -
We’ve just published an article about Font Licensing Mess on the @alphabettes blog. The text is available in English https://www.alphabettes.org/font-licensing-mess-2/
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New stats on the web 📉 Popular tiers in desktop, web, app and ePub font licences.
Nuevas gráficas en la web 📈 Límites de uso habituales en licencias para fuentes de escritorio, web, app y ePub.
Novas gráficas na web 📊 Límites de uso habituais en licenzas para fontes de escritorio, web, app e ePub.
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Licensing expert Joyce Ketterer has been improving and demystifying font licenses for years. Her upcoming workshop on June 25 is a great opportunity to improve the way you buy (and sell) fonts: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifying-font-licensing-with-joyce-ketterer-tickets-1409318582819
@Typographics ticket holders get 10% off.
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After two years collecting data from 171 independent type foundries, we publish the first statistics and resources of Font Licensing Mess. Visit the site for knowing more about it https://fontlicensingmess.com/
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Hace un par de años iniciamos la recopilación de datos de 171 fundiciones tipográficas independientes. Por fin podemos publicar los primeros resultados y recursos de Font Licensing Mess. Visita la web para saber más https://fontlicensingmess.com/ -
Save the date for the Font Licensing Mess premiere at @atypi conference. See you on Friday at 9:30 [STAGE 2]
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Reserva en tu agenda, el próximo viernes, a las 9:30 [ESCENARIO 2], lanzamiento de Font Licensing Mess en la conferencia anual de ATpyI -
Moving forward, you can now purchase each of the widths of the typefaces Push, Neue DIN, Pangea and Nikolai as a single package and benefit from a fab discount!
So whether you’re looking to go super narrow with Push XCondensed or want the versatility of Push “Normal”, you can now buy just those fonts at a correspondingly more favorable price.
For Hamster, you can now also buy individual color variants.
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Since we started Fontwerk, we wanted to offer the simplest and fairest font license in the industry. So when we undertook our new website project, we also took another look at our model and used the opportunity to further simplify it.
Learn more about or new font license model: https://fontwerk.com/text/font-licensing-made-even-simpler
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Font Licensing. I would be interested in exploring a somewhat permissive license that is more restrictive than SIL. In particular, i would be interested in incorporating elements of firstdonoharm.dev . What licenses have people been impressed or intrigued by? (doesn't have to have an ethical stance)
Please boost.
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THE YEAR IS 2023:-
Developers have yet to realise they can load websites faster by including popular #fonts with #browsers.
Not only that, they can help end the seedy, #massSurveillance business of the #CDN and help our #environment with less bandwidth throughput requirements.
Who knew!?
Maybe someone can include @torproject in this because we think they block us.
#fontLicensing #fontSurveillance #dotCons #torBrowser #librewolf #arkenfox
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Over the next few weeks we could see foundries leaving MyFonts (and other Monotype retail sites) due to a new contract that requires all the foundry’s active releases to be sold on MF. https://typedrawers.com/discussion/4786/myfonts-monotype-new-agreement #FontIndustry #FontLicensing #TypeDesign
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A potentially important case for testing whether fonts-as-software can protect a type designer’s work. (via @DunwichType): https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/zazzle-copyright-font-blooming-elegant.html #FontIndustry #CopyrightLaw #FontLicensing #Typography
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Priti Patel has made a hateful xenophobic christmas card (which i am not going to directly link to) and it uses the font Anime Ace 2.0; and this is why you should consider using a "Do No Harm" licence.
Katy Nelson explores this a bit in their AIGA article: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/some-type-foundries-want-to-restrict-usage-of-their-fonts-on-ethical-grounds-will-it-work/