Hey All,
We recently became aware of this site:
https://templett.comThey are basically a template marketplace and it's unclear if fonts can be uploaded as part of the template or not but I wanted to put this on everybody's radar if indeed this is something that needs to be addressed with their ownership.
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This is one of the key contacts: https://disqus.com/by/traviscf/
I've seen from one of the comments that 'Burgues Script' is available by Alejandro Paul, it's obviously not free - I'm hoping someone can 'school' me on how they can obtain use of this (or any other) font for their site?
There are a couple of styles of Adobe’s Kepler in there as well, renamed "Pearly Paper Kepler Bold" and "Pearly Paper Kepler Italic" (no regular though, which is odd).
I advised them to revise their submission process to not allow any further font uploads and stick to royalty-free typefaces.
@Scott Briggs Templett is the server host for graphic designers, who are creating direct-to-customer digital templates. They then upload (with assets, including font files) to Templett, sell via Etsy and other 3rd party (4th party, at this point?) online retail outlets, and then send purchasers to Templett to edit their files. Customers are editing in real time/in-browser, and downloading the subsequent files as outlined PDFs or raster artwork. (Or so Templett claims. Color me skeptical, and as I've told them before: just because they aren't distributing font files doesn't mean serving font files is okay.)
It's whack-a-mole. My two cents? Until enough of us band together to, or individually, threaten legal action, they'll continue to take advantage of the situation.
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