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When you're making a work of art (such as a game) you don't just want any old font, you want one that serves a particular aesthetic purpose. If you've picked a typeface, and designed other UI elements that look good in conjunction with it, but suddenly that typeface becomes unaffordable, then you have to do some work to find an alternative that's still acceptable. In particular, game UI tends to be designed around th…
Part of the reason Arial is so dominant is because it's proportioned the same as Helvetica, meaning it can be swapped in to avoid licensing fees without affecting document layout.
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I know Noto Sans can render just about everything, and has a permissive license: https://fonts.google.com/noto I am not sure if it's possible to parameterize it to have the look that game developers wanted.
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If any of us wanted to hear what ChatGPT had to say, we would have prompted it ourselves.
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Part of the reason Arial is so dominant is because it's proportioned the same as Helvetica, meaning it can be swapped in to avoid licensing fees without affecting document layout.
Arial is licensed font, distributed by monotype.
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> The lack of competence from companies that acquire Japanese companies, and then fail to even price things in yen or offer support packages that cater to Japanese customers is really something. In general I don't think it's just that. Pretty much all font foundries have... insufferable business models. I once emailed one Japanese foundry asking to license one of their font to use on my website. I wanted a perpetual,…
Soon they are going out of business anyway since they will be replaced by generative AI (which will look the same)
Creating type is an extremely difficult and skilled discipline and designers deserve to be compensated fairly. However Monotype’s business practices are such that I won’t approve anything but open source fonts for new projects.
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> The lack of competence from companies that acquire Japanese companies, and then fail to even price things in yen or offer support packages that cater to Japanese customers is really something. In general I don't think it's just that. Pretty much all font foundries have... insufferable business models. I once emailed one Japanese foundry asking to license one of their font to use on my website. I wanted a perpetual,…
Soon they are going out of business anyway since they will be replaced by generative AI (which will look the same)
The lack of competence from companies that acquire Japanese companies, and then fail to even price things in yen or offer support packages that cater to Japanese customers is really something. It's one thing to raise the price on a license, but it's another thing to not even support local pricing (you can even do this dynamically) or try to meet users halfway. The thing that companies like this do not understand is t…