Volume 4: People
Font Interceptor downloads all fonts in use on a target website. Will you use it?
INTERCEPT
0 fonts intercepted
Reasons to buy a font always override reasons to steal a font.
Q: What’s the font used on this site?
A:
Group
by Group Font. We bought it.
Should you buy fonts?
Q:
Are you a company or working for a company using a font for the benefit of your company?
A:
Make them pay for it or don’t use it.
Q:
Are you working for someone?
A:
Make them pay for it or don’t use it.
Q:
Are you going to make more money from whatever you are doing with this font than the cost of the font license?
A:
You better pay for it (retroactively, if your profit surprises you).
Q:
Are you personally acquainted with the designer of the font?
A:
Holy shit you better pay for it.
Should you steal fonts?
Q:
Is the font you want some bespoke thing that a venture-funded startup paid a half-million dollars for?
A:
Go ahead and steal it.
Q:
Do you just want to try this font on your computer, because you don’t know if you want it yet? Or, pitching a client on why they should buy it?
A:
Go ahead and steal it.
Q:
Is the font you want not available for purchase, so you couldn’t buy it even if you wanted to?
A:
It’s better to see something used than not. Go ahead and steal it.
Q:
Is the font you want ludicrously expensive relative to your personal financial situation?
A:
Especially for students, go ahead and steal it.
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