Harbor Bickmore of That That Type shares his font sales numbers from 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsPlT9KQEKU

Creative Market
2023: $24K
2025: $8K ↓↓

Envato Elements
2023: $9K
2025: $9.5K ↑

Etsy
2023: $3.5K
2025: $265 ↓ (he didn’t add new fonts)

Monotype
2023: $2K
2025: $28.7K ↑↑ (added many more fonts)

Supply Family
2025: $1.6K (can’t upload large families)

YouWorkForThem
2023: $10K
2023: $7.5K ↓

That That Website
2023: $4K
2025: $20.5K ↑↑

Custom Type
2025: $102K

Summary:
— Hobbyist retail market way down. Pro retail market slightly down.
— Build and invest in your own foundry website and promote it with Behance, email list, etc.
— Monotype big part of the biz, but many clients now asking for custom type due to subscription economics.

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Monotype just issued their “Global Font Use and Forecasting Survey Report”. https://www.monotype.com/resources/ebook/global-font-use-forecasting-survey-2024?utm_source=mastodon Unlike previous MyFonts surveys, they engaged an independent market research company. Over 4,777 respondents is a decent sized group!

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@typenetwork updates from CEO Matthew Rechs:

1. They added 20 foundries this year.

2. In Q1 2024, “foundry partners [besides Font Bureau] earned just shy of $1 Million – about 20% higher than our next-best quarter ever.”

3. “Adobe Fonts contributed a bit less than half of that.”

4. “Of the top ten independent foundries on TN who earned the most in Q1 (all $100k+/annually) only one also offers their fonts for sale through Monotype.”

https://typedrawers.com/discussion/5083/type-network-update

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@ilovetypography announces ILT Trust, a wide selection of services geared towards supporting foundries in almost every aspect of running their business, outside of design and font production. https://ilovetypography.com/trust/

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Monotype has bought the rights to 27 font families from Sharp Type, which Lucas Sharp refers to as their “legacy collection”. https://www.creativeboom.com/news/monotype-partners-with-sharp-type-to-add-27-font-families-to-library/

This is different than other recent MT purchases, such as Colophon in December, which included the complete foundry & team. https://www.monotype.com/company/press-release/acclaimed-colophon-foundry-joins-monotype-family

Future Sharp Type releases will be available from MT, but the company appears to still run independently.

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@fontstand was first to market with font rentals. Now they are coming right at Adobe and Monotype with subscriptions to foundry libraries. https://typo.social/@fontstand/111256618004734244

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Discussion of HGGC (the private equity firm that owns Monotype) exploring a sale: https://typedrawers.com/discussion/4892/hggc-explores-4-billion-sale-of-typeface-firm-monotype

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In response to the consistently dropping royalty rates in font retail (MyFonts, Fontspring, etc.), Font Bros – one of the smaller shops in the industry – is committing to their 65% rate. The distribution contract guarantees the rate cannot change without mutual agreement. https://typedrawers.com/discussion/4859/65-now-and-forever-font-bros

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“The land is wide, and there is room for all, without jostling or elbowing another out of the way.” — The opening letter from MacKellar Smiths & Jordan’s 1885 reissue of their 11th Specimen Book (1878). MS&J was probably the most inventive US foundry before the ATF era, with more original typefaces than any other. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032183760/page/n17/mode/2up

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Christopher Slye (president) and Dan Rhatigan (director of type products) have left @typenetwork. Michelle Perham, formerly general manager, is now vice president, operations. Jesse Gage is the new director of business development. https://typenetwork.com/about

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