Best Of

Is it also sensible to ask how soon the type face is expected to be usable? (If it is urgent there might be the need for a bigger team and it might define how one will approach the project in terms o… (View Post)

It's a bug. That's what they wrote me: (View Post)

Here's one exclusivity from my Earning report. I have a couple of these (to mention that those families are not for free nor they contain any free weights). Happy new era to all of us. (View Post)

@"Nadine Chahine" Thank you for standing up and making all aware of these questions that SHOULD be asked and adressed clearly. I do worry though, that even if transparency is given as to ro… (View Post)

Took a while but I would like to summarise how Monotype seems to be calculating royalties and the problems with the approach. The calculation model: Foundries will receive royalties based on 25% of r… (View Post)

Sorry for the minor diversion… That’s not quite true. There was a foundry review board for around 5 years, roughly 2013–2018. At ATypI 2015, Jan Middendorp revealed that the board rejected 60% of sub… (View Post)

I suppose Adobe might be interested in having the fonts, but not at a price that would require them to adopt Monotype’s aggressive policies: the whole Adobe Fonts model is based on frictionless use, … (View Post)

Even so, the $4B ask is hard to justify. What we call the "marketplace of typefaces/foundries" has changed drastically in the last 4 years. There is dramatic saturation and plenty of headw… (View Post)

$200M net sounds artificially inflated. But even if it is real, after TDA it would be about $100M, and after salaries and expenses it would be even less. $4B means they're asking for a multiplier in … (View Post)

The type industry is:* Monotype: a company that gobbled up some smaller but important companies, giving it ownership of thousands of old font trademarks, copyrights, and source files. Monotype is als… (View Post)