Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k
#HackerNews #JapaneseGameDevs #FontLicensing #GameDevelopment #PricingDilemma #IndieDevChallenges
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Subject: [Urgent] Font Software Licensing Review Hi Ameel I hope you
We’ve just published an article about Font Licensing Mess on the @alphabettes blog. The text is available in English https://www.alphabettes.org/font-licensing-mess-2/
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New stats on the web 📉 Popular tiers in desktop, web, app and ePub font licences.
Nuevas gráficas en la web 📈 Límites de uso habituales en licencias para fuentes de escritorio, web, app y ePub.
Novas gráficas na web 📊 Límites de uso habituais en licenzas para fontes de escritorio, web, app e ePub.
Licensing expert Joyce Ketterer has been improving and demystifying font licenses for years. Her upcoming workshop on June 25 is a great opportunity to improve the way you buy (and sell) fonts: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifying-font-licensing-with-joyce-ketterer-tickets-1409318582819
@Typographics ticket holders get 10% off.
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After two years collecting data from 171 independent type foundries, we publish the first statistics and resources of Font Licensing Mess. Visit the site for knowing more about it https://fontlicensingmess.com/
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Hace un par de años iniciamos la recopilación de datos de 171 fundiciones tipográficas independientes. Por fin podemos publicar los primeros resultados y recursos de Font Licensing Mess. Visita la web para saber más https://fontlicensingmess.com/
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Moving forward, you can now purchase each of the widths of the typefaces Push, Neue DIN, Pangea and Nikolai as a single package and benefit from a fab discount!
So whether you’re looking to go super narrow with Push XCondensed or want the versatility of Push “Normal”, you can now buy just those fonts at a correspondingly more favorable price.
For Hamster, you can now also buy individual color variants.
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Typographica
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