A font shop for your foundry, on your own domain.

The shop on your subdomain

When you sign up you choose a subdomain such as acme.typetin.app. The shop is made in the same request, with the four licence presets, version 1 of a starter licence agreement and a published home page.

Your own domain

To use your own domain you add it in the admin and create one DNS record that points it at your shop, plus a TXT record for some domains. The certificate is issued automatically, and the domain stays with you. Page requests to your other domains and the subdomain are redirected to the primary one.

Your own domain is on every plan.

Pages built from type blocks

The page builder lays out the home page, other pages, and the one typeface page every typeface is shown through. There are 23 blocks, including a type tester, a family grid, a glyph set, a waterfall, a pricing table and the buy section with its licence picker. The canvas is a live preview in your theme and fonts. Drafts save as you go, and a publish can be scheduled.

Layout options for each block and the Columns block start on the Foundry plan.

The theme and the specimens

A theme is a set of tokens: colours for light and dark mode, fonts, type sizes, spacing and corner radius. A colour pair below WCAG AA contrast is adjusted until it passes, or the theme is refused when it can’t be fixed. On the Starter plan you use one of the theme presets as it is, and the footer says “Built on Typetin”. Your own tokens start on the Foundry plan.

When you upload a style, Typetin makes two specimen WOFF2 files from it, renamed “Specimen” and marked restricted for embedding. The full one keeps every letter, punctuation mark, figure and symbol the font has in Unicode’s Basic Multilingual Plane, except Chinese, Japanese and Korean ideographs and Hangul, so a buyer can test each language the font sets. The second, a small Latin cut, draws typeface lists, the theme’s fonts and the typeface page’s opening line. Retail files are never served to a page.

Typeface pages and search

Each typeface page has its own title, description and card image for search results and link previews, falling back to the typeface’s own, and can be kept out of search. Its structured data names the typeface, your foundry as publisher, its designers, release year, classification and languages. Every shop has its own sitemap and a robots file that keeps the account, cart and checkout pages out.

Cart, checkout and buyer accounts

The cart is priced on the server. Checkout is Stripe’s embedded checkout on your own connected Stripe account, inside your shop. A merchant-of-record provider appears at checkout once you’ve connected it. Stripe Tax stays off until you turn it on.

You set prices in each currency you sell in, and a cart holds one currency. A buyer’s account belongs to your shop alone. They sign in with a link sent by email and see their orders and download links.

A foundry that would rather sell fonts from a site it built itself can run that site in front of the shop. The guide to selling fonts online compares the routes.