Dramatic increase in Desktop prices on MyFonts

Nadine Chahine
Nadine Chahine Posts: 125
in Type Business
Prepping for my talk today so I checked in on tiers and multipliers on MyFonts. Web pricing remains as in 2024 but the Desktop licenses have dramatically increased since Dec 2024. Look at the 30 users multiplier:



A $100 font family that used to cost $460 for 30 users, now costs $1650. As far as I can see this is for most fonts on MyFonts.

This is interesting to keep track of!

Comments

  • Moritz Kleinsorge
    Moritz Kleinsorge Posts: 28
    They sent a mail about the new multipliers update three days ago.
  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,064
    Funny. The third and fourth user each cost more extra than the second.
  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 2,023
    Does Monotype now require all foundries to use this table or is it just recommended based on their own pricing?
  • DanRhatigan
    DanRhatigan Posts: 42
    Foundries set their own base prices for single fonts, or font packages. Monotype applies its standard multipliers to the base prices. This is how Type Network does it, too, although they have a different calculation for its multipliers. 
  • Kent Lew
    Kent Lew Posts: 1,008
    DanRhatigan said:
    This is how Type Network does it, too, although they have a different calculation for its multipliers. 
    Indeed. With a much simpler set of tiers — e.g., 5 users, 10 users, 25, 50, etc. 
    And a much lower range. For example, 6–10 users = 2.5× (compared with 4.20–6.00× for MT).
    TN doesn’t really spell this out anywhere like the page linked above (which is a missed opportunity, imo). You have to deduce it from the cart mechanism.


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