Tag: Font licensing

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Why it pays to pay for creativity.

Artists pour their heart and soul into their craft and creations and in an ideal world, every artist would be recognized and paid appropriately for their efforts. In reality, however, artists often have to fight for their rights to be upheld. This has been true for centuries and is only intensifying in the digital era.

Get to know Monotype Fonts.

Monotype Fonts is the only on-demand font service designed by creatives, for creatives—making it easier than ever to find, manage, and share the world’s best typography.

Highlights of Netflix at Brand Talks Connected.

Kevin Laurino, Manager of Art & Print Production, Retouching and Finishing, at Netflix shares experiences from his career-long relationship with fonts and solutions his team has implemented to simplify licensing and improve collaboration.

eBook: 5 ways to take the hassle out of asset licensing

Learn how you can develop a simple, more secure approach to font licensing that puts the focus where it belongs: on the creative work itself.

Highlights of HP Hood at Brand Talks Connected.

Mike Mandolese, Design Manager at HP Hood, explains how a quality-focused culture builds employee and customer trust and enables continuous improvement for design teams.

Know more, worry less: Understanding IP in the creative process.

Brands today are connecting with customers across countless touchpoints – from LED billboards, to smartwatch apps to magazine ads. This provides countless opportunities for graphic designers and creative professionals to work on exciting projects, but designing for multiple environments at once has its challenges, too.

How to keep your brand aligned along an ever-evolving customer journey.

Modern brands are not static, stationary objects. Today’s brands need to be agile and adaptable, permanently poised to respond to shifts in consumer expectations, emerging technology, and opportunities in other regions and languages.

How SNCF delivers consistent, reliable customer service.

Corporate typeface helps a timeless railway company now and into the future.

Behind the font: The challenges of going it alone.

Typeface design is a mysterious business. While most people are acquainted with the dropdown menu in Word or a website like MyFonts, not everyone realizes there’s a host of independent designers and foundries all quietly making their contribution to visual culture.

Monotype, Adobe Fonts and the ever-evolving font landscape.

Adobe’s move to get out of the business of fonts as a standalone offering might be good for creative professionals, but what about enterprise customers?

Mobile or bust: Why forward-thinking retailers are prioritizing the mobile experience.

Retail customers are scattered across a wide range of touchpoints and react with them all interchangeably. However, they’re all linked through the mobile experience.

How understanding font licenses can simplify creatives’ lives.

Creatives are the primary users of the fonts, but licensing approval typically runs through other departments. Here are a few key concepts all designers should understand.

In our on-demand era, creative asset licensing is more challenging than ever.

It’s safe to say that few people, if any, set out to commit copyright infringement. The reality is that most individuals and brands fully intend to pay.

How fonts can help you win the technology race.

As technology raises the stakes for brands, fonts can either level you up or hold you back. A simple, well-organized font system is essential to making sure you can keep pace.