> Kevin, > the question we have is about the royalty for using the fonts on the > publication. > What is the scoop with that? >
Very simply, there isn't a royalty. Once you buy them, you can use them in any number of publications. Ready for a brain dump? The license agreements from the font vendors generally states that you can use the fonts on a certain number of computers and are allowed to print them to any printer. Adobe for instance licenses its fonts to five computers. In some cases though, the fonts are licensed not to the computers, but to the number of printers they are allowed to print to. This comes from the days when you actually had to install the fonts on the printer. The fonts are able to be used for an unlimited number of publications. The interesting question comes in when you need to send the document for printing to the print vendor. Standard practice is that you have to send your fonts along with the files for printing. I have never met a printer that hasn't asked for this. The interesting thing is that doing this would violate the strict interpretation of the license agreement, but like I said in practice you just have to send the font files. Adobe and other vendors do have collections of their fonts that you pay a single large fee up front and you have the entire collection. For Adobe it's their Font Folio. These are especially marketed to print vendors so that they theoretically would have all the fonts a customer might be providing. And generally it is how the printer accomodates a lot of the licensing issues. However, fonts of the same name are not always the same font. There are a slew of Garamond faces from different foundries such as Adobe, ITC, Bitstream, etc. The pisser is that even though they all may be decent quality, they aren't all exactly identical and the way the type ends up on the page can vary depending on which one you use. So for example, when you layout a job using the ITC Garamond and send it to the printer, if they use their Adobe Garamond you might have cases of text breaking on lines where you didn't expect it or even fonts not showing up because of how they fit in their allocated text area. So the best practice is still to send the fonts along with the files to be printed. By the way, that Adobe Font Folio set is your best cost effective way to buy fonts. It costs $9,000 but it has every font Adobe produces (more than 2,750). Individual fonts usually cost about $25, so buying all the fonts individually would cost something like $68,750. Of course you probably don't need to use all the fonts, but it's still an amazing deal. If you have any other questions, just ask. -Kevin Graeme ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_community Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
