Hello again! We don’t usually send emails this frequently, but there’s so much to tell you about what we’ve changed for XYZ Type version 2.0! (It’s not just our website that has changed.)

Font licenses, simplified

We aim to make font licensing as simple as possible. Since our policies are unique, here are a few things you might want to know about them.
▶ Read “Licensing our fonts” on our site

Paid Trials: you never knew you needed them!

Wait? Why would I pay for trial fonts?!?!⁠⁠
⁠⁠Our paid trial fonts have all the glyphs and features of the retail fonts, include desktop & web formats, and are available for our retail & fonts in progress collections. They are for testing, client pitches, and student work. Use them for comps and then buy the license you need.⁠⁠⁠

They cost $20 for a family, and we’ll credit you that back when you buy a full license.⁠
Don’t worry, we still have free trial fonts; they have a limited character set, are just desktop fonts, are just for our retail collection, and include Trial in the font naming. Hey, they're free!⁠
▶ Try our fonts

We’re counting people, not machines.

We now sell our desktop font licenses in tiers based on how many people will use the fonts. These days it’s a lot easier to count users than keep track of all their desktop computers, laptops, and tablets.⁠

Our web, app, and ePub licenses are priced by the size of the company using the fonts, rather than metrics like visitors or downloads. 

Variable fonts for all!

Rather than having to buy variable fonts as a premium product, you’ll automatically receive them along with the static fonts at no additional charge when you buy a license for all of a family’s weights in either roman or italic.

Let’s discuss.

We had so much fun on Instagram Live the last two times, we’ll be at it again on Friday. Join us at August 26 at 3pm ET, when we’ll answer your questions about licensing. Feel free to send questions in advance, or come and watch the replay later.

And in possibly the most unexpected development for our foundry, you can now find us on TikTok. We have some fun content planned there, so follow along.

Lastly, we want to thank Cydney Cherepak for illustrating our licensing, making the often dry subject a lot more colorful.

Thanks, as always, for your support!
—Ben & Jesse