misk@piefed.social to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 8 months agoJapanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blowautomaton-media.comexternal-linkmessage-square106linkfedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down11 cross-posted to: typography@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareghostlychonk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53·8 months agoMonotype may as well be the mafia. My wife’s work had to deal with those assholes, too, after they bought the rights to some font. They’re just shaking companies down for cash.
minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·8 months ago after they bought the rights to some font. Now That’s What I Call Capitalism I would be burning fucking buildings down. I’d be at the top of the FBI’s most wanted list.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoPut up or shut up
minus-squarestatler_waldorf@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoThere was a fun article yesterday about a guy dealing with the Monotype shakedown. I can’t figure out how to strip this weird Voyager url handler to the Lemmy post, so here’s the actual post https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/11/14/monotype-font-licencing-shake-down
Monotype may as well be the mafia. My wife’s work had to deal with those assholes, too, after they bought the rights to some font. They’re just shaking companies down for cash.
Now That’s What I Call Capitalism
I would be burning fucking buildings down. I’d be at the top of the FBI’s most wanted list.
Put up or shut up
There was a fun article yesterday about a guy dealing with the Monotype shakedown.
I can’t figure out how to strip this weird Voyager url handler to the Lemmy post, so here’s the actual post
https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/11/14/monotype-font-licencing-shake-down