July 9, 2008
Typography
A new source for fonts
I received a heads-up from Dave Seidl of Ascender Corporation pointing me to their new commercial/reseller font web at fontmarketplace.com—I found it to be an interesting new source. They offer a unique End User License Agreement that allows them to sell certified true type fonts for $5.
Ascender is the BASF of the typographic world. By that I mean they could easily adopt BASF's famous tag line: “We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better.”
For example, Ascender's Steve Matteson designed a family of fonts named Convection for the Xbox 360. And they are also credited the design of Droid, a family of fonts licensed to Google for Android—a new open, free mobile platform.
The Convection family for the Xbox 360...
The Droid family for Google's Android platform...
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