Licensing
Font licences for desktop, web and apps.
Every foundry’s licences differ a little: other user bands, another pageview ceiling, an app licence by the year. Typetin has no fixed set. A licence is a table of tiers that you edit, and there are four presets to start from.
Typetin hasn’t launched. What this page describes is built and in testing, and it isn’t open to foundries.
The four licence presets
| Licence | Measured in | Tiers | Delivers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desktop | Users | 1–5, 6–20, 21–50, 51–100; above that, the buyer contacts you | OTF, TTF, variable |
| Web | Monthly pageviews | Up to 10,000, 100,000, 500,000 and 1 million | WOFF, WOFF2, variable |
| App | Apps, and a term | 1 app, up to 3, up to 10; for 1, 2 or 3 years | OTF, TTF |
| Trial | Nothing | One free tier | OTF, WOFF2 |
Each tier has the label a buyer sees and a multiplier. A preset can have a second axis beside its tiers: the app licence has one for the term, and you can add your own. A tier can also be listed without a price, which tells the buyer to get in touch.
The trial preset hands out a cut-down font and never the retail file. How a trial font is cut.
How a licence price is worked out
Each style has a base price, which is its price at a multiplier of 1. On the presets as they come, that’s a desktop licence for 1 to 5 users, or a web licence for up to 10,000 monthly pageviews. A line’s price is the base, times the tier’s multiplier, times the multiplier of any second axis. A two-year app licence for up to three apps is the base × 4 × 1.8.
A family price is a bundle: a set of styles at one price. A style that’s in a bundle in the cart is never charged a second time by itself.
You set a price in each currency you sell in. Typetin converts nothing, so a style with no price in a currency isn’t sold in it.
Discounts are codes or automatic. One can apply to the whole cart, a typeface, a style or a licence, between two dates, up to a number of uses.
The licence on the order
Every order line records the licence, the tier’s label and multiplier, any term, the styles it covers, the base price and the price paid. The licensee’s name, company and address are on the order. Each paid line becomes one licence in the buyer’s account, with the EULA version they accepted.
Terms and renewals
A licence with a term ends on a date. Typetin emails the buyer 30 days before, 7 days before, and once after it lapses, each time with a link to renew at today’s price. The new term starts where the old one ended, or today if it had already lapsed. Nothing renews or charges by itself.
Quotes that hold their price
For a larger deal you issue a quote. It freezes the prices, the discounts and the EULA versions as they stand that day. It holds for 30 days unless you choose another length, up to a year. The buyer opens a signed link and pays it once, at the quoted price, whatever has happened to your price list since.
Quotes start on the Foundry plan. What each plan includes.
The rest of the back office
- EULAs: the version each buyer accepted, on every order.
- Royalties: each designer’s share of every sale.
- Fingerprinting: a signed record in every font you deliver.
- Hosted webfonts: licensed domains and pageview counts.
- API: your own site, reading from Typetin.
Pricing has what each plan includes, and the roadmap has where every feature stands.