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So glad to have found this thread. I thought I was going nuts after being burned by Monotypes backend font 'bundling'. I wasn't even aware they were doing it after years of being with them. By this I… (View Post)

Jan, TypeDrawers discussions have touched on this topic many times over the years, but I commend you on starting a thread that succinctly identifies the problem (and opportunity). An independent font… (View Post)

This is one part rant, one part genuine question and one part report on my singular perspective made in hope that it will be useful or insightful for someone, somewhere. I am a type user with a relat… (View Post)

Are we a support group, or a bunch of enablers?! (View Post)

Retail fonts are primarily tools for professional designers. Most professions require tools that most people don't need. An electronics engineer needs as oscilloscope, but most people don't. Some hob… (View Post)

And yet the SIL document goes into discussion of circumstances in which making all the metrics identical can result in having to make compromises with clipping of glyphs: Not to mention the option of… (View Post)

A lot depends on what you mean by “the font design business” for the rest of us. There is: * designing typefaces solo or creating your own team, whether for the retail market or eventually/also commi… (View Post)

FWIW, working with multiple retailers has worked well for me. I decided in the early 2000s to do this after getting burned having a single, exclusive distributor in the '90s. My thinking at the time … (View Post)

I’d like to be clear that while I’m answering the OP and Joyce’s questions, my answers are fleshed out in assumption of a silent audience reading these responses. This is the stuff I wanted to know 2… (View Post)

Business has been particularly good, and income has been steadily increasing for the past couple of decades. I do almost no promotion, I don't participate in sales, and I stopped giving introductory … (View Post)