Hey all,
I was wondering if there is anybody here who could shed some light on what is currently happening with the MyFonts foundry application process, or if there is others who have experienced a similar delay in their submissions being even responded to - my initial submission was 5 months ago. There's an automated email informing me of a "up to 45 business day" delay with dealing with new submissions, and some time ago I have received human-written email reassuring me that my submission is still in the review queue, but again heard nothing ever after.
Reluctant as I was to consider selling my designs through that channel in the first place, the question begs: Is this business as usual?
Edit: I might add that I was somewhat reluctant to bring this issue up "publicly"; I do not mean to start a discussion about MyFonts, retailers, or particular business practices. I am simply looking for peer experiences given the lack of any real information, and after they missed their own delay estimate by factor three, I have less reservations about what, if any, light this shines on MyFonts.
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I'm really sorry your application (and many others) coincided with this testing period.
We - at MyFonts - had not expect we would have that much issues caused by the testing.
All our apologies for the very long waiting time. We are very aware of how frustrating all this is... we can only hope the new platform will be operational soon and all will go smoother again."
Waiting now more than a month for MF to upload our new release. There are supposedly some issues to upload TTF and CFF in one package, but already three weeks MF cant provide any information what exactly the issue is.
Compared to Fontspring the same job took 1,5 days...
I couldn't go around them. It seems the biggest vendors are under the same hat, so writing to Monotype directly means still waiting. I didn't know that then so I'm eating my words.
I'll wait it out i suppose. But that's good, I will have more time to perfect the designs even further.
Could somebody point me to a "who owns who" chart in the Type Business world?
The two bigger independent retail font organizations are FontSpring (~7,000 fonts. 593 foundries, by the largest remaining non-Monotype group) and TypeNetwork (~300 families, 24 foundries). The other indie agglomeration that springs to mind is Village Type Foundry (a consortium of 11 foundries). All of them put together are a tiny fraction of the size of Monotype.
Creative Market
Font Bros (5,264 families, 147 foundries)
FontHaus (143 foundries)
ParaType (40 foundries)
T26
YouWorkForThem (77,284 fonts, 538 foundries)
Worth mentioning is also Fontstand. They have a different retail model based on monthly rentals and currently offer 1,334 families by 50 foundries.
I've got to get used to thinking of Typekit as a desktop font distributor.
Well, it is what it is I suppose.
https://www.myfonts.com/search/ergam/
I am still getting the hang of where to announce my new products, but I hope to improve with time.