When Neue Haas Grotesk was published a few years ago, it was presented as a joint project of Linotype and Font Bureau, distributed by both foundries. As far as I understand, Linotype's version and Font Bureau's version are supposed to be identical.
So how come Linotype sells the complete family (22 styles) for $299 (or even $150, at the moment, as there's a sale) while Font Bureau sells it for $880?
Anyone understands what's going on here?
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It's been a while since I read the Monotype EULA but that could be the difference. Remember that neither entity is "selling Neua Haas Grotesk". Both are licensing it. As such, the lowest level standard license price is as much a calculation of what use is permitted as it is of the functionality of the font as a tool.
That said, I would never permit a font to have more than one associated license because doing so makes enforcement exponentially harder.
In this particular case a number of styles of Neue Haas Grotesk were licensed to Microsoft and distributed under the Windows 10 license and separately under a Windows Store license, and also under the Microsoft Office font service TOU.
The pricing of the TN v Monotype collection does seem odd, for very similar rights. If I had to speculate I'd say TN is selling primarily to publishers, who standardize on TN fonts, based on library exclusives and after sales support - so in this case they'd just go with the TN version without shopping around.
But this is an anomaly as there are few fonts shared between these two outfits. If there were more cases of price difference I think people would notice.