For independent type foundries · In development
Every licence, on the record.
Typetin is a licensing and sales back office for independent foundries. Every order keeps the licence the buyer chose, the EULA version they accepted, each designer’s share of the sale and a fingerprint in the fonts. Your shop sits on top.
Buyers pay your Stripe account. We take 0% of sales, and you can export everything on any plan.
Made first for labels, collectives and foundries with more than one designer.
Demonstration
Upload a family, get a catalogue.
Drop in a release the way it leaves your desk. Typetin reads each file, sorts the styles into a family and makes a specimen webfont for every one. This replays those steps with Merriweather.
- 01 · Upload FilesDrop a whole release in at once: every style and every format.
- 02 · ReviewFiles are read and sorted into fonts. Open any one to correct its name, weight or style.
- 03 · UploadThe fonts are created, and web fonts, subsets and trial fonts are made from your files.
- 04 · Map InstancesA variable font’s named instances are matched to the static fonts you just uploaded.
Upload Fonts
- 1. Upload Files
- 2. Review
- 3. Upload
Drop font files here
Try it with the Merriweather files. Nothing is uploaded.
Drag the Merriweather files into the box, or press Browse files.
A demonstration with sample data. Nothing is uploaded or processed on this page. It replays the steps of Typetin’s batch upload. Sample family: Merriweather, an open-source typeface under the SIL Open Font License.
01 · Licensing
Every kind of licence you sell.
Desktop seats, web pageviews and apps; terms and renewals; quotes for the big deals; and the exact EULA every buyer agreed to.
Licence groups and tiers
Groups, tiers and multipliers for desktop, web, app and other licences, starting from presets you can edit.
Term licences and renewals
Licences priced by term, on every plan, with renewal orders and reminders 30 and 7 days before a term ends.
Quotes that hold their price
A quote’s prices are frozen when you issue it. The buyer pays what you quoted, whatever happens to your price list afterwards.
Versioned EULAs
Every order records which version of your EULA the buyer accepted.
02 · Designers and royalties
Royalty statements for every designer.
On a label or in a collective, one family can have several designers, each owed a share of every sale. Typetin works those shares out as the orders come in, so the quarter never has to be rebuilt in a spreadsheet.
Royalty statements per designer
Each designer’s share is recorded on the order line when the sale happens. Statements run per designer, period and currency, and a refund reverses its share.
Multiple currencies
Set explicit prices in each currency you sell in, with royalties and statements kept in the order’s currency.
03 · Delivery and compliance
Trace a fingerprinted font to its order.
Once a font is sold it leaves your hands. A fingerprint in the files and a count of web usage are how you find out where it went, and whether it’s being used within the licence.
Fingerprinted downloads
The fonts in every order carry a signed fingerprint that names the order and the licence they were issued for.
Hosted webfonts, with usage
A web licence can have a hosted webfont kit that browsers load only on the licensed domains. It counts pageviews, so you can compare usage with what was bought.
Customer accounts
Buyers get an account per foundry with order history and re-downloads. Download links last 90 days, and a signed-in buyer can issue a fresh one while the order’s licences are active.
Trial fonts
Trial versions of your fonts, generated from your own files.
04 · Already have a site?
Keep the site you have.
Most foundries had their site built for them and have no reason to give it up. Your site reads the catalogue, orders, licences and customers from the Typetin API and gets a webhook for each new order. Buyers choose a licence and pay in your Typetin shop, on a domain of your own if you like, and Typetin delivers the fonts and keeps the licence records.
# Your catalogue, as your site sees it GET /v1/typefaces Authorization: Bearer ttk_… 200 { "data": [ { "name": "…", "styles": 12, "licences": ["desktop", "web", "app"] } ] }
Public API
Your own site or tools can read your catalogue, orders, licences and customers, and receive a webhook when an order is paid or refunded.
One-click export
Export your catalogue, font files, customers, orders, licences and royalty records in open formats, on every plan, including after you cancel.
The API starts on the Foundry plan.
05 · The shop on top
A shop set in your own type.
Your colours, your fonts, and pages assembled from components made for type. The builder below is a demonstration. Drag in a type tester, a family grid or an image, set its options and publish.
- 01 · Drag in componentsType testers, family grids, glyph sets and images, from the library onto the page.
- 02 · Set their optionsSelect a component to change its text, its settings and its tone.
- 03 · PublishDrafts save as you work. Publishing puts the page live.
Page builder
Home page
Draft
Components
Type
Content
Your new typeface
Drag a component onto the page, or press it to add it.
A demonstration with a sample page. Nothing is saved or published from here. It follows Typetin’s page builder and theme presets.
Your own look
Colours, type and spacing are theme tokens you set, starting from a preset. Nothing in your shop has to look like Typetin.
Drag-and-drop pages
Build pages from blocks made for type (testers, weight grids, glyph sets, licence pickers) and preview them in your own theme and fonts.
Live specimens
Typeface pages set your fonts as live, editable text, using specimen webfonts made from the files you upload.
Your own domain
Add one DNS record to point your domain at your shop, and sometimes a second that proves the domain is yours. The domain and its DNS stay with you, and the certificate is issued automatically.
06 · From the workshop
What’s built so far.
Nothing is open to foundries yet. Everything below is written and tested, mostly against stand-ins for Stripe, storage and email. We’ll call a feature working when a foundry outside our team is using it.
Licences anyone can check
Every licence certificate links to a page in the foundry’s shop that confirms the licence is genuine, and each order now records where the buyer accepted the agreement. Each licence has a kind that decides what it delivers.
Tax, currency and receipts set by the foundry
Stripe Tax is a switch each foundry turns on for its own account. The selling currency is chosen when the foundry is named, receipts carry the seller’s and buyer’s tax details, and a foundry can place a free test order.
Sign up with an account first
Signup asks only for an account, with Google or an emailed link. The foundry is named after signing in, so nothing is created for an address nobody confirmed.
Family bundles and a file inspector
A bundle generator makes full-family and per-subfamily bundles, and variable fonts are sold inside them. Font tools reads any font file and traces a fingerprinted one to its order.
Languages and search settings for typefaces
Languages, width and slant are read from the font files. Typeface pages get their own search settings and structured data, and the API returns the new fields.
Typetin is made by a team that runs foundry shops. 31 features are built and in testing, and 4 more are planned. The whole workshop log · See every feature
07 · Yours
Your Stripe, your customers, your files.
The commitments Typetin is built around. They hold on every plan.
The Stripe account
Buyers pay it directly. We take 0% of your sales and never hold your money.
The customers
Customer and payment records are kept in your Stripe account.
The domain
It stays at your registrar. One DNS record points it at your shop, sometimes with a second that proves it is yours.
The export
One export of your catalogue, files, orders and records, on every plan and after you cancel.
08 · Pricing
A flat monthly fee, 0% of your sales.
Launch pricing, subject to change. Prices are in US dollars. Every plan will start with a 30-day trial, with no card needed.
Starter
$49 a month
or $490 a year, paid up front
- 0% commission on your sales
- 1 editor seat
Foundry
$179 a month
or $1,790 a year, paid up front
- 0% commission on your sales
- 3 editor seats
Studio
$599 a month
or $5,990 a year, paid up front
- 0% commission on your sales
- 10 editor seats
09 · Updates
Stay connected
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