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Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
PS - I think this is all about Fontspring after being bought by Creative Market? That sort of sale only happens because a creative market thinks that a fontspring has unrealized potential — that's th…3 -
Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
To be clear, Nadine did not say that the conversation is to discuss whether or not a 50% royalty split is fair for foundries. In fact, from my understanding, I Love Typography (ILT) also does a 50/50…4 -
Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
Yikes I think this is a nice thing to offer, Nadine & ILT folks :)2 -
Re: Artificial Intelligence generated letters
Right. Why would we want to off-load the fun part?2 -
Re: Artificial Intelligence generated letters
There is an ecology in culture, in which science and art (for want of better categorizations) change apace. Gallery art has constantly dealt with the incursions of technology, for instance becoming n…3 -
Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
Based on many conversations with designers over the years, I think it has more to do with dependency and lack of capital. Designers whose primary income from designing and releasing fonts is from re…13 -
Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
I'm always really befuddled by these discussions. As someone who runs an indie foundry I can tell you that the alternative (running the commerce side yourself) has overhead costs over 30% of gross in…5 -
Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
But... aren't all "free" events like this..? ;p Surely you can take it from me that anything "free" has a larger purpose and is a loss-leader for some other activity ;) I agree XD1 -
Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
It's baked into the forum software and can't be easily changed, as I understand it.2 -
Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
Thank you Mark! If foundries are not sure what this is about, this has happened recently: - One distributor has unilaterally decided to reduce royalties to foundries from 70% to 50%, in spite of sign…2
