Font licenses
We offer three kinds of font software licensing to cover the overwhelming majority of use cases. Our licensing focuses on the individuals using the font software, rather than the number of computers, webpage views, or applications. Our license tables are tiered to reflect the scaling needs of clients, based on the numbers of people using the fonts internally (for Standard licensing), and externally (for Web and Embedding licensing.)
Standard licensing
- Fonts are sold as Software as a Service in OpenType (.otf) and TrueType (.ttf) formats.
- Pricing is based on the total number of people using the fonts.
- Permits the installation of the font software on desktop/laptop computers and/or access to the fonts via a font server.
- Permits use of the fonts in desktop/laptop software, such as Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop, etc.), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), and other software applications.
- Provides the fonts for research, development, and production purposes.
- Allows use of the fonts to create still or moving graphics to appear in printed matter, motion graphics, web graphics, environmental graphics, advertising, broadcast, PDFs, etc.
Web licensing
- Fonts are sold as Software as a Service in Web Open File Format, v1 & v2 (.woff & .woff2) formats.
- Pricing is based on the number of unique monthly visitors to the site(s) operated by the licensee.
- Provides the fonts for research, development, and production purposes.
- Permits installation of the fonts on web server(s) for display of dynamic text on websites using the @font-face tag in cascading style sheets (.css).
Embedding licensing
- Fonts are sold as Software as a Service in OpenType (.otf) and TrueType (.ttf) formats.
- For app embedding, pricing is based on the number of unique monthly users of the app(s) wherein the fonts are packaged. (If monthly app user numbers are not available, total download numbers should be used.)
- For ebook embedding, pricing is based on the number of ebooks sold wherein the fonts are packaged.
- Provides the fonts for research, development, and production purposes.
- Allows for the fonts to be packaged within the code of software applications for iOS, Android, etc, or within the code packages of multiple ebook titles.
All licensing is a one-time cost for perpetual use. All licensing can be extended to cover additional users.
Any license purchases of single weights or weight pairs will be applied to license purchases of family collections.
Standard license table
Base License x 1 ··············· 1 to 5 people
Base License x 2 ··············· 6 to 20 people
Base License x 5 ·············· 21 to 100 people
Base License x 10 ············ 101 to 500 people
Base License x 25 ············ 501 to 5,000 people
Base License x 50 ·········· 5,001 to 20,000 people
Base License x 100 ········ 20,001 or more people
Web license table
Base License x 1 ··············· 1 to 10,000 people
Base License x 2 ·········· 10,001 to 50,000 people
Base License x 5 ·········· 50,001 to 500,000 people
Base License x 10 ········ 500,001 to 2,000,000 people
Base License x 25 ······ 2,000,001 to 10,000,000 people
Base License x 50 ····· 10,000,001 to 50,000,000 people
Base License x 100 ···· 50,000,001 or more people
Embedding license table
Base License x 1 ··············· 1 to 50,000 people
Base License x 2 ·········· 50,001 to 250,000 people
Base License x 5 ········· 250,001 to 2,500,000 people
Base License x 10 ······ 2,500,001 to 10,000,000 people
Base License x 25 ····· 10,000,001 to 50,000,000 people
Base License x 50 ····· 50,000,001 to 250,000,000 people
Base License x 100 ··· 250,000,001 or more people
The full texts of agreements for Standard, Web, and Embedding licensing are linked at left. Please contact us with any questions or needs.
Unlimited licensing
- Additionally, we offer unlimited licensing for a one-time cost of Base License x 200.
- This license grants the rights to reproduce, distribute and exploit any works in any media that include the fonts worldwide, as now known or may be developed in the future, without restriction.
- Allows for the fonts to be distributed to third parties, such as partners and vendors.
- Please contact us to discuss.