James Puckett

The vendor agreeing to pay the foundry full retail price regardless of what the actual sale price is. Just like when a physical retailer buys something at the usual wholesale price then sells it as a… (View Post)

I recommend that new designers avoid Creative Market and Fontspring. Their contract allows them to set any price for your fonts, so they can sell your fonts at steep discounts to draw attention to th… (View Post)

It would be a better use of your time to just build a backlog of unpolished and unfinished work that you can go back and finish later when your skills are further developed, then sell those fonts. (View Post)

Frank Romano did a book all about this, it’s called The History of the Phototypsetting Era. It’s hard to find a copy for sale but you can probably get one through an inter-library loan. (View Post)

They tried this with me (I was always on the old Bitstream contract). I refused and they did the deal as a one time thing. I laughed when I saw how little money it was—they tried to get me to sign th… (View Post)