Monotype buys out Sharp Type retail library

Dave Crossland

https://www.creativeboom.com/news/monotype-partners-with-sharp-type-to-add-27-font-families-to-library/

Seems to me similar to the Font Bureau deal, dissimilar to the Colophon deal

ST on ExTwitter added more context:

https://x.com/SharpTypeCo/status/1754939641244090499

John Hudson

Hmm. Maybe when I am calculating pricing to release fonts under OFL I should be factoring in the lost sale to Monotype income.

Paul Hanslow

So Sharp Type didn’t sell off their employees as assets? Good on them for having a soul. 

Dave Crossland

One can offer OFL licensing at any price but one still needs to realize the price in the marketplace. Things are bought, not sold. 

John Hudson

Things are also not sold in the sense of ‘No, you can’t have it at that price’.

Dave Crossland

That's what I mean by unrealized pricing innit