New Font Forum! Fonts.xyz

Typofactory
Typofactory Posts: 56
in Type Resources
There is a new font community in town: Fonts.xyz. It is brand-new and, yes, a dark mode is coming soon! 
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  • Peter Constable
    Peter Constable Posts: 300
    TypeDrawers doesn't award points and reaction scores?
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,811
    edited June 2023
    TypeDrawers is primarily about type design and font production. Fonts.xyz seems to be more oriented towards typography in general.
  • Igor Freiberger
    Igor Freiberger Posts: 304
    It would be interesting if Fonts.xyz focuses more in general public. Its font ID is already an invitation to this. Someone who just wants to know about what font to choose or combine may be scared by the technical level of TypeDrawers.
  • Ray Larabie
    Ray Larabie Posts: 1,503
    Reflecting on the diverse platforms for discussing typefaces and fonts, I've found traditional forums often provide a more focused and engaging environment than broader social media platforms. Platforms like typo.social, for instance, held immense potential. However, the atmosphere has somewhat deviated from its initial promise, exhibiting a tendency towards formality and less inclusivity.

    Further, the content drift towards American politics and climate change has muddied the waters, causing the platform to increasingly resemble general social media feeds such as those on mastodon.social. The departure from the core subject-type, is disheartening.

    However, I'm optimistic about the emerging platform fonts.xyz. With its potential to gather a wide range of font enthusiasts, from novices to experts, it could develop into a go-to hub for us all. Its success, of course, is largely dependent on its user base. It's early days, and the platform's direction and popularity remain to be seen. Here's hoping it evolves into a thriving, vibrant community for our shared passion.
  • Typofactory
    Typofactory Posts: 56
    Thomas Phinney said:
    More font-related communities are a perfectly reasonable thing. I would still be curious to hear more of your objectives in creating it. Other than having a font ID section, what purpose(s) does it have that TypeDrawers lacks? How else are you thinking/hoping it will differ?
    Sorry for not clarifying earlier, but I did not make fonts.xyz; I merely joined it very early and asked if I could help spread it around. I do not know what &’s (the creator’s username) idea or motivation was.
  • Ray Larabie
    Ray Larabie Posts: 1,503
    It's already been shut down.
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,811
    Weird.
  • James Hultquist-Todd
    James Hultquist-Todd Posts: 436
    I swear I didn't do it.
  • Jasper de Waard
    Jasper de Waard Posts: 663
    James Hultquist-Todd said:
    I swear I didn't do it.
    lol
  • Xiaoyuan
    Xiaoyuan Posts: 15
    i think the website design is too much, and it distract me from seeing the typefaces presenting there. 
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,811
    edited September 27
    The site appears to be something completely different from the one the OP (Grant Bowers) announced three years ago, which was a new forum about fonts. This is some kind of font distribution platform and doesn’t appear to be made by the same person.
  • Qwerasd
    Qwerasd Posts: 21
    edited September 27
    It looks like the domain is owned by Luke Prowse (of nan.xyz), and has been since at least February of 2024, though it's unclear if the "&" who very briefly administrated that forum three years ago is Luke or if ownership of the domain was transferred. (Assuming there's not two typographers by the name Luke Prowse, they have an account here: @Luke Prowse -- but they haven't been particularly active it seems.)

    EDIT: The @ seems to have not worked, but you can find the user by searching.
  • Drawcard
    Drawcard Posts: 78
    edited September 29
    I’m totally confused. This site looks more like a standard foundry website than anything else. Where’s the community exactly?

    Edit: Oh, its a bumped thread… never mind.
  • Jérémy NaN
    Jérémy NaN Posts: 2
    Hello all, Jérémy from NaN here.
    The first fonts.xyz, the forum, went offline and Luke, founder of NaN, indeed bought the domain name after that.

    Then at the end of last may we launched what you can see there, a font selling platform (not a foundry). But we want to be a community in the sense that we want to support the indie type scene by providing an easy and free way for foundries and designers to sell their fonts. Their is no entry cost and we take a relatively low percentage on the sales (20%). On top of that, 1% of all sales is shared among all designers.

    We are still at an early stage, slowly enrolling new foundries a few at a time. Hopefully you're hear about us again here.
  • Jérémy NaN
    Jérémy NaN Posts: 2
    PS. the dev team has been @Johannes Neumeierand @Roel Nieskens who a lot of you might know from other projects.
  • George Thomas
    George Thomas Posts: 663
    edited October 12
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  • Johannes Neumeier
    Johannes Neumeier Posts: 409
    Jérémy NaN said:

    We are still at an early stage, slowly enrolling new foundries a few at a time. Hopefully you're hear about us again here.
    To add to this, just for clarity: We are actively inviting interested foundries and designers to join. 

    There is a waitlist, but anybody interested can and should join, and especially if you have some kind of portfolio link for us to evaluate you will get access to the foundry builder backend. There it is easy to add your fonts, build custom family pages from our modules, and upon review, have your fonts published for selling. Or just have a look around and decide later. We are looking to make this a fair, easy and welcoming market place for everybody. More info also here. B)

    At this stage we are asking foundry participants (and also the site users, of course) for feedback and are regularly rolling out updates to the backend and overall site experience, so as @Jérémy NaN pointed out: we are in an early stage  <3

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