Web fonts, open source, and industry disruption

Posted Oct 25, 2013 12:23 UTC (Fri) by njwhite (guest, #51848)
In reply to: Web fonts, open source, and industry disruption by dlang
Parent article: Web fonts, open source, and industry disruption

> as for "it's not enough to live on", lots of people in the world, and even in the US live on that amount. It may not be what _you_ want to live on, and if so, just don't build a font with the intention of selling it to Google.

The point, I suppose, is that font designers want to be well paid by first world standards for their work, which Google is potentially undermining by offering so much less than the market previously has done.

> The "company store" and "wage slave" situations are only real when people don't have a choice. There is no place in the world where you have no choice but to work for Google.

True, but as Google operate one of the largest font repositories they certainly will have an impact on the price others will be willing to pay for fonts. So choice still exists, but it may be that the offer wherever you go will be diminished as a result of Google's policies.