Behind the Font: Font Licensing, demystified (Part 1 of 3).

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Behind the Font

Font licensing

Media and publishing fonts

Creative matters

Behind the Font is exactly what it sounds like - a podcast miniseries that looks behind the creative work we love to better understand how creative work gets done. Have a question or topic you'd like us to explore? Email us at [email protected] and we may cover it!

「 Essentially we went from a world where font usage was limited to a small population of specialized businesses like printers and publishers, to a world where anyone could be a printer or publisher in their own home. ”

Phil Carey-Bergren.

In the first-ever edition of our new podcast miniseries series Behind the Font, we dive in to the often murky and mysterious waters of font licensing [cue Jaws theme]. Our guest for this journey into the depths is Monotype Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Phil Carey-Bergren, and we couldn’t ask for a better person to walk us through the ins and outs of these contracts. In part one, we get a crash course in recent font history to understand how licenses have evolved and why this matters to today’s brands, designers, and agencies.

Listen to Part 2, where we dissect the elements of a license and ask the question everyone is thinking - do I really need to read this whole thing?

Behind the Font: Font Licensing, demystified (Part 1 of 3).

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