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Re: How can small designers' fonts ever sell successfully?
I would ask yourself how much work you’re willing to put into marketing your own foundry. The days are long past in which merely appearing on MyFonts was enough to be seen. The catalog there is so ma…12 -
Re: Examples of Serif Styles?
In IBM’s antiquated system, Charter would probably be classified as “5 Slab Serifs” because that’s the only serif class without bracketing (transition from serif to stem). The subclass would be “2 : …2 -
Re: The business of a type foundry and font licensing
@JoyceKetterer Yes. Unfortunately, when introducing the feature, Apple used the term “custom fonts” to refer to any font not already installed in iOS.2 -
Re: The business of a type foundry and font licensing
Tobias, here are two talks worth watching (and people to talk to) for a perspective on font retail concepts outside the large corporate entities (Adobe, Monotype) and small foundries: * Travis Kochel…2 -
Re: The business of a type foundry and font licensing
I gave an overview of the industry as I saw it in 2015. (BTW, the concept I had in mind at that time never came to fruition, unfortunately.)4
