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Eye glasses & lens. Even bigger than fonts, one company has a virtual monopoly on all eye glasses and lens. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica https://
by tiffanyh 3y ago
Eye glasses & lens.
Even bigger than fonts, one company has a virtual monopoly on all eye glasses and lens.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica
- innocenat 3y agoI don't know. English fonts are used pretty much everywhere in the world. Luxottica, however, doesn't hold virtual monopoly in many regions.
- tiffanyh 3y agoAnd Linux/Android is the most popular OS in the world and all of its included fonts are free (not using Monotype fonts). The article is conflating “where fonts come from” to imply meaning all fonts. But it’s really meaning where all PAID fonts come from. Free fonts like Roboto, Inter, Open Sans etc are used significantly more than any single paid Monotype font. Back to eye glasses, I don’t know anyone making free frame & lens at mass scale. That industry is all paid product.