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What you’re really saying is, “bro, I need to be paid for my work…but I don’t feel others need to be.” Seriously? As a designer, whenever I’ve done anything for a client, if I don’t have the font, I do one of three things: I either design a similar font (note that this is legal only in some jurisdictions and you might not have that option), I go buy the font (always legal in any jurisdiction), or I explain to my client why that particular font is not a good option (in which case, it’s the client’s choice to work with some other font.) As a designer, you’re getting paid for your work and you should want that work to continue.

It is patently disingenuous to state that you need those fonts.

I also get that you make money doing so for clients.

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And last time I checked, I am not blessed with a trust fund or a lottery-winning ticket, so I sell my fonts in the hopes that it will pay for those new Huion drawscreens I need to get for both myself and my wife (she’s a professional illustrator who also struggles with her art “going travelling”…but more on that later.)Īs a web designer (like the designers above), I get that it costs money to do all this.

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Is hardware free? Is good software free (and by “good” I don’t mean that in an abstract sense, I mean the one that is best for the designer? After all, I pay for Adobe Illustrator instead of freely downloading Inkscape because I prefer the experience and workflow of the former)? And I use a gaming desktop and laptop for my work because of all the various art and writing I do, so I need that power (heck, I even have Steam installed for some apps…but can’t remember the last time I gamed on anything aside from my PS4 and my phone!)Īll of that costs money. And yes, there are free font suites out there and there are free art suites to draw the glyphs in. While I’m not doing fonts for fame and fortune (who is?) the fact is, all the hardware and software cost money. It takes me anywhere from a month to a month and a half to make the glyphs, clean them up, validate the font, make the different weights, check kerning and tracking, set up ligatures and other open type details, etc. While I do make free fonts, I also make pay fonts (in fact, I recently just did a Clarendon revival in the interests of fairness, however, I’m not going to put a link here as this isn’t about self-promotion). For those of you who aren’t keeping tabs, let me break it down for you. Since that initial conversation, by the way, he has deleted all traces of the conversation from his site, but thankfully I copied it elsewhere: bro, i don’t know about other me and my designer friends need these type of fonts pack.Īnd that should say everything you need to know right there.

When I spoke to the guy who had offered the 2000-font download, his response was this.

But what about Calibri, Tahoma and especially Arial? I need not even get into the Linux side of the house there.

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But do you have one for San Francisco and New York (generally, Mac-only fonts)? The reverse is true as well: if you’re downloading them on a Mac, you might have the license for San Francisco and New York. Okay, maybe your copy of Microsoft Office and Windows and Adobe Creative Cloud came with those copies and thus you have a license for those. Downloading this thing and keeping it is a legal minefield. Quite frankly, these are fonts that you likely don’t have the license for and trying to license all 2000-plus of them is not going to happen.

Now, we’re going to talk about the bigger problem: the legal and ethical issues regarding this.

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Last week I wrote about the practical reasons of why you shouldn’t install 2000-plus fonts into your OS’ font folder and why you should let the work be handled by a font manager instead. This is part two of a two-part article series.

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