Tuesday, July 08

Geek

There'd Better Be Money In The Baptism Business

Because I'm about to pay $1500 for a font.

Licensing professional typefaces for web use is seriously expensive.  Well, seriously expensive to someone who's paying for it out of his own pocket, anyway.

What this means is that I can dynamically generate menu items and logo buttons and suchlike in the standard mu.nu font, Horatio Medium.  As things stand, I have over 100,000 pre-generated images for the menu items alone, and I have to manually generate banners if I want them to use this font.

It's a nice font, though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 10:00 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 Does $95 US sound better? http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/singles/elsner_flake/horatio_medium/

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at Thursday, July 10 2008 12:44 PM (R7LgM)

2 How about $26? http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.htm?pid=436022

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at Thursday, July 10 2008 12:46 PM (R7LgM)

3 Yeah, it's a licensing issue.  I want to put the font on the web server so that I can dynamically generate images using it (for the text in banners, menu items, logos, buttons and so on).  You're not allowed to do that with a standard font license, and Linotype charges €300 per year per font for a web server license - with a three-year minimum contract.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, July 10 2008 12:55 PM (PiXy!)

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