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Japanese commercial font company acquisition leads to over 50x price increase

6 points by uneven9434 10mo ago

A_D_E_P_T 10mo ago
> The main factor behind this shift appears to be the acquisition of Fontworks by the US-based Monotype in 2023. When I read the headline, my bet was that the culprit would be US Private Equity, and that there's no way a Japanese or Chinese company would pull such a move. That kind of destructive rent extraction is just not in their normal playbooks. Yeah, I wasn't entirely correct, but pretty damn close.
ChrisArchitect 10mo ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130187