Fontstand proposes a solution for easy testing fonts. Sometimes font clients complain about fonts, only to discover that they’re using an illegal version extracted from PDF, without proper kerning and spacing.
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They may not have ill intentions they just cannot commit to buying the license before their client approves the project.Īfter getting the go-ahead, the designers will often come to the foundry to legalize the licensing.
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Many designers look for a way round this, such as searching illegal download sites to test whether the fonts are suitable for their work. This is understandable: ultimately, a foundry is asking them to pay hundreds of euros, while there is no guarantee that the fonts will fit their purpose.
“As a type foundry,” says Bilak, “one of the most common questions asked by designers is to borrow the font before purchasing the license for it. Share with another designer for a small add-on fee.įontstand’s creators are sensitive to the designer’s quandary of needing to experiment before buying. As opposed to most free fonts you find with a web search, you have the confidence in knowing that those offered through Fontstand come complete with extensive OpenType features and glyph sets and have been kerned to perfection. The rows of specimens are pure eye candy for type lovers and you can sample any of them for hour. It’s fun to get your type from Fontstand. They brought Bilak’s former student Ondrej Jób to work on the interface and develop it into the gorgeous app it is today. “Andrej asked me what I thought about doing the same with fonts-making them available on reduced time-basis,” he explains. Previously, Bilak had experience rethinking content distribution with his excellent design magazine, Works That Work. Two years ago, Peter Bilak of Typotheque in The Netherlands teamed up with longtime friend and designer Andrej Krátky to work on a new business model for selling type.
And any font you rent for 12 months is yours to keep. You can even share a font with a friend for an incremental increase in the rental fee. Or rent the entire family for the limited time you might need it for a one-off job, saving hundreds of dollars.
Now, instead of buying a complete font family, you can rent, say, just the extra bold italic if that’s all you need.
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So when I saw Fontstand, a high-end, try-before-you-buy font service introduced on Twitter at the end of May, I enthusiastically clicked right in.įontstand is an elegant and colorful standalone app for Mac OS that seamlessly allows you to browse, try, and rent carefully crafted typefaces from type designers and independent foundries of the highest caliber. With new streaming music and video apps popping up left and right and software-as-service coming to giants like Adobe’s Creative Cloud, it’s no surprise that having a collection of fonts collecting dust in your hard drive feels just as dated as flipping through a shelf of CDs. We may not quite be in a sharing economy yet, but we’re certainly in a “not owning” economy. Some of the foundries you’ll find on offer at Fontstand
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