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Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+ (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] 8 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

to be fair, anyone using a font for branding that requires an annual subscription, put themselves in that spot. I think the reasons would be technical in this case. But they're basically betting that $20k/y in a couple years couldn't pay for the efforts to replace it, and I think that's really risky.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Monotype is functionally an international monopoly. More than Luxottica, but for many of the same reasons. If the small selection of open source fonts don’t do what a company needs, then their only option other than Monotype is to have a font created. Monotype owns almost everything font related. Companies, fonts, everything.

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