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Font Licensing

How do you handle font licensing?

Font licensing varies based on the foundry that has the rights to sell the fonts. Most of the time they require that each organization owns their own license. This can be fairly expensive, but type designers play a big part in making our work awesome and designing good typefaces is mind-bogglingly difficult. We have an internal font budget, but our clients need to have their own budget if they wish to use the fonts themselves (we try to give clients an estimate ahead of time). For example, often the client will want access to the fonts in order to correspond on branded letterhead. When possible, we’ll recommend they buy an “office” version (typically at a discounted rate) which contains a limited character set, ideal for day-to-day correspondence. Concerning webfonts, a web license is typically sold separately from a print license, therefore the client must always factor webfont licensing into their website budget.

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