Dear All,
Survey time: What was the last time you paid for fonts, and what font(s) were they?
(Fonts that come free with a word-processor or printer or whatever don't count.)
never.
genericus on 2004-06-24T02:24:26
never
Re:never.
People pay for fonts?
Re:never.
brev on 2004-06-24T17:07:37
Nah, they just go down to the forest and pick them off trees.
Re:never.
TorgoX on 2004-06-24T05:08:43
Never ever? Not even a $5 "1001 Fonts!!" CDROM in 1994?
Re:never.
genericus on 2004-06-24T15:36:37
That pretty much predates my computerness.
My cousin, on the other hand, is a font slut and has probably purchased one or more of those...
Like... never
yDNA Barak on 2004-06-24T04:38:05
Not a penny ever.
Are you kidding?
jbodoni on 2004-06-24T05:06:28
I
am a font!
Further, most Bodoni family males tend to resemble the typeface: we're round in the middle, with small feet. :)
John
I bought the Adobe family of Arial and
hfb on 2004-06-24T07:33:35
Lucida a few years back and I've bought a couple of fonts from P22. Yeah, I pay for fonts.
1995
grantm on 2004-06-24T08:40:40
I bought a copy of Corel Draw 6 in 1995 and it came with over 1000 true type fonts - I've probably used about a dozen.
At work, I've needed to buy a few fonts on the company account. This used to happen quite a bit in the pre-CSS days. A web site designer would dictate a certain font for headings and we would render dozens of GIF images. These days of course I just say no.
Not so long ago
essuu on 2004-06-24T11:23:14
We've bought fonts for the company and to work on certain projects for clients.
JansonText
jest on 2004-06-24T13:21:17
In 1993 or so, I bought Janson for a book I was publishing that I wanted that particular font for. I think that's been it
late 80's
phillup on 2004-06-24T13:25:48
I paid for the 13 standard postscript fonts from Adobe in the late 80's.
I was doing desktop publishing on my Amiga and needed them.
I think they are free now, but I still have the original disk and the packaging.
(why is the subject required?)
mendel on 2004-06-24T14:25:10
I rarely do type-y things anymore. Back when I was still doing web-related stuff I had to buy a handful of fonts to automate in TeX a phonebook that was being done by hand in some Windows software; the only one I remember of those was Frutiger Light Condensed (but we didn't end up using it).
If I
were the sort to do type-y things, though, I'd be buying fonts regularly, because the quality of the free ones would drive me mad.
Oh, I've probably bought letraset since, does that count?
Once, maybe
jdporter on 2004-06-24T15:45:03
A few years ago I bought a used baptismal font. Does that count?
Years ago, or real soon
brev on 2004-06-24T17:13:27
But then, only on behalf of graphic design shops where I worked. I've usually had access to organizations that had paid-up licenses, so I would skim off those.
I'm doing a bit of graphics for my aikido dojo and it pains me that I can't afford to get what I want legally. I'm skimming off work again, but it's not very ethical, plus I'm limited to whatever they bought.
I may break down and commit a few dollars to this .
Twice
pudge on 2004-06-25T21:33:58
I twice purchased fonts, both times as part of larger packages, both times Adobe. Sonata was a music notation font that came with Deluxe Music Construction Set, and Alexandria was a Greek font that came with macBible. Alexandria was the last one, and that was in
... oh, 1991?
