A few months ago I came across a foundry that expressed their appreciation for a site builder specifically for new type foundries. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the service, or which foundry had shown the link to their site.
Anyone?
Cheers.
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they are not specified on foundries, but build https://www.hvdfonts.com/ (fronted) and https://www.typemates.com/ (frontend and shop) and some of the team was involved in fontshop.com (before founding diesdas.digital.
these guys are not cheap but have a passion for type and can customize everything to made your foundry independent from resellers.
I have been using Persona (https://persona.co) for my personal portfolio site (which allowed me to embed custom fonts and play with the code a little) I would love to see a platform like this for new foundries.
Everyone has been very helpful—and I love hearing about who is on top of this.
Cool! I like them!
Now I see your point.
Couple months ago I have been asked to build few websites for my friends. So we come with an idea about some sort of platform which covers foundry specific needs.
I have prepared a document for discussion about what it should look like and what kind of features the platform should provide.
The first website is technically finished, waiting for the content, and planning a second website (can't say the details now). I would like to bootstrap the necessary features around those websites, so we can reuse them in future and split the costs.
Is that something which might help you?
I'm a frontend developer and app developer at Kabisa in the Netherlands, a web company that usually does bigger, custom projects (as opposed to small WordPress sites). We'd love to take on type related projects for web or mobile.
Personal projects include Wakamai Fondue, ChromaCheck and Sans Bullshit Sans. I write posts on my website about variable fonts, font piracy, color fonts and web development, and have several font related open source projects over at Github.
I also take on small custom jobs with my own company, PixelAmbacht!
END OF UNSOLICITED SELF PROMOTION
The website is built on Wordpress and uses the Woocommerce platform for the cart and check-out section.
Working with Johannes on this was a pleasure, being a type designer/seller himself he understands the mechanics of selling licenses and fontproducts.