Monotype may as well be the mafia. My wife’s work had to deal with those assholes, too, after they bought the rights to some font. They’re just shaking companies down for cash.
I’m already against the concept of “buying the rights” to anything, let alone buying the rights to something then raising the cost to license it. I would be burning fucking buildings down
This would be an interesting comic strip. A company that has purchased all the fonts in existence, and then the artist doing the comic you are reading gets sued by the company he’s making a comic about, because he doesn’t have the rights to the font.
Monotype may as well be the mafia. My wife’s work had to deal with those assholes, too, after they bought the rights to some font. They’re just shaking companies down for cash.
Now That’s What I Call Capitalism
I’m already against the concept of “buying the rights” to anything, let alone buying the rights to something then raising the cost to license it. I would be burning fucking buildings down
This would be an interesting comic strip. A company that has purchased all the fonts in existence, and then the artist doing the comic you are reading gets sued by the company he’s making a comic about, because he doesn’t have the rights to the font.
Put up or shut up
There was a fun article yesterday about a guy dealing with the Monotype shakedown.
I can’t figure out how to strip this weird Voyager url handler to the Lemmy post, so here’s the actual post
https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/11/14/monotype-font-licencing-shake-down