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Re: Giving away fonts (typefaces)
It would be a better use of your time to just build a backlog of unpolished and unfinished work that you can go back and finish later when your skills are further developed, then sell those fonts.9 -
Re: Monotype New Contract ...Subscription Model, do the scary maths.
Monotype is obviously pushing a subscription model to compete with Adobe Fonts, which is similar in the sense that you get access to a large library of fonts when you are a Creative Cloud subscriber.…10 -
Re: Questions about Ikarus
you made me curious. i can not remember whether digitizing on VAX or mac. but it seems, the mac version was able to do it. you look at osx 10.4.11 / classic mode: i do not have a tablet and cursor. t…1 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
Rotis (1988) pioneered the concept of a semiserif that sits between a sans and a serif a few years before. Woellmer’s Consul is an example for stylistic sets from 1903. Not necessarily the first of i…6 -
Re: Fontspring Joins Dribbble and Creative Market
It's intriguing to observe the strategic move of using Fontspring's capabilities to address the limitations of Creative Market. Creative Market's current model restricts the sale to on…1 -
Re: Is selling on MyFonts a good idea?
As a new foundry you have at least two alternatives with higher standards and better ethics than MyFonts: * I Love Typography * Font Bros Once you build more of a reputation you could apply to these …12 -
Re: Is selling on MyFonts a good idea?
You can’t just “put your fonts” on Adobe or many other distributors. I would advise you to sell licences from your own foundry’s ecommerce website, and market through social media such as Tik-Tok and…8 -
Re: Is selling on MyFonts a good idea?
I can't tell you how happy I am that I went it alone 20+ years ago. It was expensive at the beginning, but all these years later I am independent of all of these resellers and all the others.13 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
Structure, not applied style. Here are a few systemic inventions and reforms to writing systems/alphabets: 1. Hangul 1443 2. Petrine reform of Cyrillic 1708 3. Masonic cypher (18th century) 4. Cherok…4 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
letterform innovation here, thoughts about phonetic forms there – are you familiar with Philipp Stamm's examination of possible phonograms for the german language?6
