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Do publishers have to pay special licensing fees to print a magazine or newspaper with text in a certain font? I don't understand how font licensing works. Is
by pj 17y ago
Do publishers have to pay special licensing fees to print a magazine or newspaper with text in a certain font?
I don't understand how font licensing works. Is it because the web browser has to download the font spec to someone's computer who hasn't paid for the font?
- fhars 17y agoActually, for many commercially licensed fonts, every viewer must buy and install the fonts, if they are cheap for $30 for each of regular, italic and bold (and each other variant, if so desired) for every computer he wants to view the document on. Mark Pilgrim had a point with his "fuck the foundries" rant a few weeks ago, even if the tone was controversial.
- access_denied 17y agoAnd how much dough do the font-designers see? Virtually nothing. Designing typefaces is one of the lesser paid design professions, albeit being one of the hardest if you want to do a good job. Foundries are just another one of those music-newspapers- obsolete by digital age industries.