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Re: Monotype foundry webinar on royalties
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…12 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
My gut says there's a lot of debt and a lot of puffery to this price. I think that if they really thought they had increase the value this much they'd be taking it public again, not going f…1 -
Re: Draw in light mode or dark mode?
It was a work-around. Not specifically a script, but you have to alter some features in Glyphs via the terminal. I found Glyphs had a few undesirable/overlooked aspects in the initial dark mode (text…2 -
Re: Draw in light mode or dark mode?
I prefer a light window to design in and all of the side panels to be dark. This wasn't possible when Glyphs initially implemented Dark Mode, so a scripting work around was required.1 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
I’m not sure how regulation could practically be applied here. Monotype is fairly transparent with their PE-backed leadership, but they have still acquired lots of IP from willing sellers. It’s unfo…12 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
Same here. The cheeky twist is that Monotype's customer-repelling tactics over the past few years brought our way plenty of business we wouldn't otherwise get. The flip side of course is t…12 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
Exactly. But the projection has to at least make some kind of sense, dunnit? Through which business model would one be able to extract a bare minimum of $4.x billion in 4-6 years from the fonts curr…4 -
Re: Explanation of the Type Industry.
The type industry—as an industry—is one in which the supply is far greater than the demand. It became this way during the nearly four decades after the democratization of type-making technology in th…5 -
Re: Explanation of the Type Industry.
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…10 -
Re: Sunsetting Fonts.com etc.
They've been wanting to kill off Linotype from quite early on. The first big sign was not letting Linotype.com sell web fonts and only allowing fonts.com to do so. For 3 whole years. Then there …10
