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Font Licensing

Licensing fonts can be confusing, but does it have to be? Sort of. But we’re here to help. Our licensing structure follows a growing number of type designers and foundries that are licensing fonts based on one factor: company size. As people are using type in increasingly cross-platform ways, it no longer makes sense to need separate licenses for desktop, web, etc. Our license covers all typical platforms and the price only varies based on the value it provides the licensee—again, solely based on the size of the company licensing the font, not the number of people using the font. Read a sample version of our End User License Agreement (EULA) If you have any questions that aren’t answered below, please feel free to get in touch.

If you’re doing work for a client, your client/their company should hold the license to use the font. This covers your use of it on work for that client, but not on unrelated work.

Company size is determined by the number of employees working for the company that holds the license. For our purposes, this includes owners, board members, and part time employees or freelancers working over 15 hours per week (on average).

If your company outgrows the tier for which it holds a license, you are required to update your license within 60 days of that change. Please get in touch with us to upgrade your license and you will only be charged for the difference between tiers, not the full amount of the new tier.

Fonts are delivered in OTF, TTF, WOFF, & WOFF2 files. Your download will also include a PDF of your license which you should retain for your records.

Fonts are software, and like any other software they will occasionally receive updates. When you purchase a license, you’ll receive updates for the font you licensed at no extra charge. If a typeface has multiple styles (bold, light, italic, etc.) or expands to have multiple styles in an update, you will only receive updates for the style(s) you hold a license for, not the whole family.

Damn, that’s a lot of employees! Please contact us for a custom Enterprise License.

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