You're right — a font is as still useful today as it was 30 years ago. But there is no longer a market for them. They were commoditized a long time ago. My memo

You're right — a font is as still useful today as it was 30 years ago. But there is no longer a market for them. They were commoditized a long time ago. My memory of the 90's is rusty but I feel like it was a company like Bitstream that came around and so undercut the font market in a race to the bottom that, even then, it was clear that selling fonts was a dying business.