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Fonts are a herculean effort and a dazzling display of creativity and taste. The fee for a good font is, generally speaking, nominal. Use free fonts if you want

by switz 5y ago

Fonts are a herculean effort and a dazzling display of creativity and taste. The fee for a good font is, generally speaking, nominal. Use free fonts if you want, but a good font is worth paying for. You are "crazy"[0] for expecting them to be free. But if you don't want to use a paid font, that's totally within your prerogative. [0] though I prefer not to use that word, perhaps a better word would be 'entitled'

bin_bash 5y ago
I'm happy paying people for their effort and creativity. This licensing agreement is not something I would personally consider though: > You get a total number of prepaid pageviews that can be used over time. This means that you will pre-pay for a number of pageviews, then you’ll have to come back to order more after your site has been viewed that number of times. > For example, if you order 250,000 page views, when your webpages using the webfonts have been viewed 250,000 times, you will need to buy the webfont package again for an additional number of prepaid pageviews. Pageviews are valid for 4 years. (Then again I mostly do tools and infra so I'm not in this market anyways.)
- switz 5y ago
  Oh, I'm not defending this license in particular. That's a great point, apologies. Most fonts I see for sale have a one-time license fee for # of views/month. So if you do 500k monthly views you pay ~$99 once, and 5MM views is X*4. That's pretty reasonable to me, the costs are hardly prohibitive. If you're looking for a fantastic variable font, I can recommend Proxima Vara[0], which is the variable iteration of Proxima Nova. It follows this licensing structure. [0] https://proxima-vara.marksimonson.com https://proxima-vara.marksimonson.com
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philjackson 5y ago
> [0] though I prefer not to use that word, perhaps a better word would be 'entitled' Then why not use that word?
- switz 5y ago
  I was quoting the OP.
  - philjackson 5y ago
    Ah, apologies.

by switz 5y ago

bin_bash 5y ago

I'm happy paying people for their effort and creativity. This licensing agreement is not something I would personally consider though: > You get a total number of prepaid pageviews that can be used over time. This means that you will pre-pay for a number of pageviews, then you’ll have to come back to order more after your site has been viewed that number of times. > For example, if you order 250,000 page views, when your webpages using the webfonts have been viewed 250,000 times, you will need to buy the webfont package again for an additional number of prepaid pageviews. Pageviews are valid for 4 years. (Then again I mostly do tools and infra so I'm not in this market anyways.)

switz 5y ago
Oh, I'm not defending this license in particular. That's a great point, apologies. Most fonts I see for sale have a one-time license fee for # of views/month. So if you do 500k monthly views you pay ~$99 once, and 5MM views is X*4. That's pretty reasonable to me, the costs are hardly prohibitive. If you're looking for a fantastic variable font, I can recommend Proxima Vara[0], which is the variable iteration of Proxima Nova. It follows this licensing structure. [0] https://proxima-vara.marksimonson.com https://proxima-vara.marksimonson.com
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philjackson 5y ago

> [0] though I prefer not to use that word, perhaps a better word would be 'entitled' Then why not use that word?

switz 5y ago
I was quoting the OP.
- philjackson 5y ago
  Ah, apologies.