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Fonts in your face

This year is the year of the typeface, the year of the downtrodden typographer. The year the foundries saw the dam burst. There is no way back, no way to put the genie back in the bottle. What’s worse is that we’ve seen it all before.

2009-04-28 / 05:59

2 Comments

By Dominik Lenk
04/29/2009 12:31 AM
Droid Sans and Serif. Not sure I heard of them but they look nice on your new site. Slightly miss the old layout though.

I think that the other problem is that it will take a very long time for fonts to gain as much popularity as music. In order to justify even pricing and more user-friendlly licensing there needs to be more demand. As for me I also recently made the switch to open source on my own site: Vera Serif…
By Egor Kloos
04/29/2009 11:28 AM
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Europe, Earth etc...
The <a href="http://www.ascenderfonts.com/info/droid-fonts.aspx">Driod type family</a> seems to work well even though I'm not using it as a mobile font. It does scale down very well as I've done on the homepage. The new design still feels a little generic even though I took all the header photos myself. I'll be tweaking over the next couple of few weeks to get it the way I want it.

I agree that the typeface market is a small niche market. So we won't see 99 cents for a typeface. It could be cheaper but more importantly the pricing could be more consistent than it is now. Buying and applying fonts must become easier for web based work. They're going to be copied anyway so the trick is to make some money out it.

The web has changed everything and it will take years if not decades for it all to settle.
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