I really appreciate the amount of work that goes into making a font. On one hand, these typographers and their foundries are starving for revenue and on the oth

I really appreciate the amount of work that goes into making a font. On one hand, these typographers and their foundries are starving for revenue and on the other hand they make the customer's professional life incredibly difficult with the retrictions that you mention. Most small foundries have been bought out by Monotype and their licensing is now 100% subscription only. I was lucky to have purchased Univers and a couple of other fonts under their "Creative" license which bundled everything under a reasonable price. Font foundries - listen up, if you want people to pay for your fonts, make the licensing model straight up simple - download fonts and off you go. Turns out that most people that are willing to pay for your font arent the ones trying to pirate them. Stop fucking them over.