Founded by active type designers, the company aims to benefit both font foundries and end users, expanding the market for high-quality, legally licensed typefaces. With one click, users can rent fully functional fonts for 30 days at 10% of their normal retail price. In 2015 Fontstand revolutionized font licensing by offering short-term font rentals at attractive prices. Fontstand’s ambition has always been to introduce professional-quality typefaces to new audiences, and supporting iPadOS lets us reach many people who have never licensed fonts before,” says Fontstand co-founder Peter Biľak. “There are three times as many active iPad users as there are desktop Mac users. Since iPadOS now supports custom fonts, Fontstand is expanding its MacOS and Windows font rental system, allowing a growing number of compatible iPad applications (including Apple’s own Keynote, Pages and Numbers, as well as Adobe’s Photoshop) to access 15,000+ fonts from 50 renowned independent foundries. If you are an educational institution interested in this offer, write us at or fill out the form at students education licensing press releaseįontstand has introduced an innovative iPad app that lets users explore, filter, manage and use its extensive library of professional-quality fonts. Schools get a convenient, affordable font licensing solution, students get to work with professional-quality tools on their own computers, and foundries and type designers get full payment for their work, a win-win-win situation. Each student will then receive a voucher for his or her share of the budget, gaining access to Fontstand’s growing library of top-quality type families. How it works: participating design schools and colleges can set their font budgets and specify a number of students. Regular users of Fontstand’s Mac and Windows desktop applications can try fonts for free and rent them for just 10% of their retail price per month, and now students at participating design schools and colleges will be able to rent them for just half that, as Fontstand will forego its share of the license fee (effectively donating it to the school) while ensuring that the foundries still receive their royalties in full. The same monthly rental system now used by thousands of small- and medium-sized design studios is now being made available for educational institutions at a special price. The average foundry, on the other hand, is unlikely to agree to let schools install its fonts on thousands of student computers when there’s no practical way to guarantee that the files won’t be kept and/or redistributed, even long after the students graduate.Įnter Fontstand, the company that pioneered technical solutions to make font licensing affordable for users and profitable for independent foundries. Today, more and more students are doing more and more of their work on their own laptops, but few can afford to maintain a broad library of high-quality, legally licensed typefaces, and fewer still can justify the purchase of a font that will be used for a single project and may never be needed again. In the days when the “notebooks” that most students carried were three-ring binders, schools had computer labs where students could work with fonts licensed for use on school equipment, an arrangement that was hardly cheap, but at least centralized and manageable. Many schools, however, find it difficult to give their students access to professional-quality type. Today’s design students are tomorrow’s design professionals, and they need to train with professional design tools, including high-quality digital typefaces.
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