David Emery Online

Fuck the foundries

1 May 2009

Seriously. Fuck them. They still think they’re in the business of shuffling little bits of metal around. You want to use a super-cool ultra-awesome totally-not-one-of-the-11-web-safe-fonts? Pick an open source font and get on with your life.

I couldn’t agree more. The font foundries – like the music industry before them – need to accept the fact that this whole internet thing exists and there’s nothing they can do about it. What they need to be doing – as soon as they possibly can – is changing their licensing so that you can use them on websites in a legal way.

Because they’re just about to have a huge influx of new potential customers for their fonts, so it might – you know – be useful to be able to sell to them.