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Actually, 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
by fhars 17y ago
Actually, 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.