Funny story, I was working with an enterprise-sized company, a major telcom, and we found out that we had used the "wrong" version of the font everywhere. The o

Funny story, I was working with an enterprise-sized company, a major telcom, and we found out that we had used the "wrong" version of the font everywhere. The original font was like "My Font" and the font we had used was the "Pro My Font" that had a bunch of extra symbols and such in it and was higher-priced. But we used it everywhere, for years. And it would have been a huge hassle to change it all. So we emailed the designer and were like, "Look, we didn't intend to screw you, but we also didn't really budget the $450k in estimated licenses we'd need here... how about we pay you like $30k extra and call it good?" Anyway, long story short, the small-time designer guy was thrilled to get $30k, and turns out he wasn't at all even monitoring for pirated versions of his font anywhere... he didn't have any idea who had bought his font, so to him it was just some random big company offering to give him free money. The places that sell fonts should do a better job of passing on payment (obviously) to designers, but also a list of who bought their fonts so they can take some pride in knowing where their designs are being used.