The new trend in fonts
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Charles Borges de Oliveira
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I am sure this has been discussed for some time but I am starting to see the trend where fonts that get released are discounted 50% to 90%. The reality is that customers will start to view fonts as they do phone apps where they should be anywhere from a $1.00 to $5.00. I hope it doesn't come to this but I see it happening. 

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Chin up. You'll also notice that 99% of those fonts are total shit. Being undercut sucks but we (foundries, vendors, writers, designers, various professional type people) also need to take responsible for giving bottom-line driven middle men so much control over the market. Type faces aren't commodities, despite how much the monotype/google/adobe models want them to be.1
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Chin up. You'll also notice that 99% of those fonts are total shit. Being undercut sucks but we (foundries, vendors, writers, designers, various professional type people) also need to take responsible for giving bottom-line driven middle men so much control over the market. Type faces aren't commodities, despite how much the monotype/google/adobe models want them to be.
...said the stock photographers in the early 90's. Don't see many of those guys around these days.0 -
It is far less work to "get lucky" shooting a photograph than it is to produce a typeface.1
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...said the stock photographers in the early 90's. Don't see many of those guys around these days.
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...said the stock photographers in the early 90's. Don't see many of those guys around these days.
One can’t shoot a couple dozen good fonts in an afternoon. And there’s still plenty of high-end stock photography, but the photographers sell direct rather than through the stock houses. As with type, good designers who do some research know the difference.1
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