I would like to see a discussion regarding what I consider to be the unreasonable cost to purchase fonts. Why should I spend $75-$150 for a family of four (regular, bold, italic, bold italic) for a font that I may use once. I gladly spend that much money for software which I use everyday, however this is not the case with a font. It is difficult to justify purchasing a new font when I can convey the same message using a font I already have. That is not to say that I wouldn't like to use a new perhaps more fashionable font but the cost to do so is ludicrous. How is it that a one man shop with Fontographer for example can design and distribute a family of four as shareware for $10, but a large corporation with far more resources, experience, & distribution expertise can't do the same or better. Why doesn't the economy of scale apply to type?
If type is so great how come there's no standard for using typographical features such as single quotes, double quotes and other typographical features.
We get great typefaces, but are stuck with typwriter quotes.
Responding to Geek's posting. Almost all TrueType and PostScript fonts contain real quotes. The problem is accessing them - odd shift combinations on the Mac, odd ALT + numeric keypad combinations on Windows and odd &#nnnn; entities in HTML.
Submitted by Si Daniels on Wed, 10/25/2000 - 09:17.
The Cost of Fonts
I would like to see a discussion regarding what I consider to be the unreasonable cost to purchase fonts. Why should I spend $75-$150 for a family of four (regular, bold, italic, bold italic) for a font that I may use once. I gladly spend that much money for software which I use everyday, however this is not the case with a font. It is difficult to justify purchasing a new font when I can convey the same message using a font I already have. That is not to say that I wouldn't like to use a new perhaps more fashionable font but the cost to do so is ludicrous. How is it that a one man shop with Fontographer for example can design and distribute a family of four as shareware for $10, but a large corporation with far more resources, experience, & distribution expertise can't do the same or better. Why doesn't the economy of scale apply to type?
Geek typography
If type is so great how come there's no standard for using typographical features such as single quotes, double quotes and other typographical features.
We get great typefaces, but are stuck with typwriter quotes.
Some technology, like geek typography.
Real quotes...
Responding to Geek's posting. Almost all TrueType and PostScript fonts contain real quotes. The problem is accessing them - odd shift combinations on the Mac, odd ALT + numeric keypad combinations on Windows and odd &#nnnn; entities in HTML.