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I hadn't looked at the business model for fonts for a while. Looking at https://store.typenetwork.com/ https://store.typenetwork.com/ , each style of Proxima N

by tyingq 3y ago

I hadn't looked at the business model for fonts for a while. Looking at https://store.typenetwork.com/ https://store.typenetwork.com/ , each style of Proxima Nova (regular, bold, italic, etc) is priced à la carte, and for web use you can't really buy it, you rent it. Up to $1,015.00/year if you have 2.5M views/month. Edit: Shared not because it's particularly relevant for the legal aspects, just for some relative idea of what it would cost if you did pay for a license from the party that's unhappy.

ceejayoz 3y ago
Here, though, the OP is using Adobe Fonts. https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/proxima-nova https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/proxima-nova > Licensing Information > The full Adobe Fonts library is cleared for both personal and commercial use. > As with everything from Adobe Fonts, you can use these fonts for: ... Website Publishing: Create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website Either Adobe has a license, and the foundry is fucking up, or Adobe doesn't have a license, and Adobe has fucked up. In neither case should this be OP's problem.
- sbarre 3y ago
  At least as far back as 2018 there's also a distinction between using the font when designing website assets that will be graphics like JPEGs or PNGs, vs embedding the font files themselves to use for the text elements of the website. Agencies used to get in trouble all the time back in the day for embedding font files in client websites that they had only licensed for offline use in Illustration/Photoshop/etc.
- jfk13 3y ago
  > Website Publishing: Create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website It doesn't say "...add any font from our service to websites for your clients", though.
  - LordAtlas 3y ago
    It seems to me that the client would need a Creative Cloud subscription of their own to serve the fonts for their website.
crote 3y ago
Web font licensing is completely bananas. The first one I clicked (Quiz) is $30.000 / year for unlimited pageviews - and that's self-hosted. A perpetual license is $150.000. Proxima Nova doesn't even offer a perpetual license at all. Meanwhile, the exact same font is $30 for a perpetual desktop license. That allows you to create a logo in Photoshop and use that on your website - or use it for a printed document with tens of millions of copies. Or you can get an App license, which allows you to use it in a single app for $500 / year - regardless of the number of installations. Web fonts are just a complete ripoff, it seems. Considering font faces can't even be copyrighted in the US, you'd be better off hiring someone to make a copy by tracing it!
- hnisforfascists 3y ago
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by tyingq 3y ago

ceejayoz 3y ago

Here, though, the OP is using Adobe Fonts. https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/proxima-nova https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/proxima-nova > Licensing Information > The full Adobe Fonts library is cleared for both personal and commercial use. > As with everything from Adobe Fonts, you can use these fonts for: ... Website Publishing: Create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website Either Adobe has a license, and the foundry is fucking up, or Adobe doesn't have a license, and Adobe has fucked up. In neither case should this be OP's problem.

sbarre 3y ago
At least as far back as 2018 there's also a distinction between using the font when designing website assets that will be graphics like JPEGs or PNGs, vs embedding the font files themselves to use for the text elements of the website. Agencies used to get in trouble all the time back in the day for embedding font files in client websites that they had only licensed for offline use in Illustration/Photoshop/etc.
jfk13 3y ago
> Website Publishing: Create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website It doesn't say "...add any font from our service to websites for your clients", though.
- LordAtlas 3y ago
  It seems to me that the client would need a Creative Cloud subscription of their own to serve the fonts for their website.

crote 3y ago

Web font licensing is completely bananas. The first one I clicked (Quiz) is $30.000 / year for unlimited pageviews - and that's self-hosted. A perpetual license is $150.000. Proxima Nova doesn't even offer a perpetual license at all. Meanwhile, the exact same font is $30 for a perpetual desktop license. That allows you to create a logo in Photoshop and use that on your website - or use it for a printed document with tens of millions of copies. Or you can get an App license, which allows you to use it in a single app for $500 / year - regardless of the number of installations. Web fonts are just a complete ripoff, it seems. Considering font faces can't even be copyrighted in the US, you'd be better off hiring someone to make a copy by tracing it!

hnisforfascists 3y ago
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